Schutzhaus - Aldrans

Wow....einfach nur wow...oben auf dem Berg über Innsbruck, Kapuzenberge zeigen, bis das Auge reicht. Als ob das nicht genug wäre, wurde die Musik im Biergarten freundlicherweise von der Österreichischen Blaskapelle Patscherkofelklang genehmigt, sie war großartig. Tolle Musik, tolles Bier, tolle Atmosphäre, tolle Aussicht. Wenn Sie in Innsbruck sind, ist es einen Besuch wert.

You can visit this restaurant by taking the cable car from Patsch and at the top station. From there, the shelter is very close and the best restaurant on the mountain. The food is fresh, tasty and served very quickly. We had potatoes with bacon and blood sausage, a local soup and an apple, poppy and pumpkin strudel. It was also cheap and the view is beautiful. You can then run some strudels in the alpine garden that planted alpine flowers in a meadow that you can see from a path that surrounds the garden.

We ate lunch in this restaurant during skiing in the area, the restaurant was at the top of the main lift with good views over Innsbruck and the surroundings. The restaurant was busy and the food and service were good.

We have visited this restaurant at Patscherkofel twice first in Winter and the second time in Summer. On both our visits we sat outside on the terrace and the views over the ski slopes (Winter) or the meadows (Summer), down to Innsbruck are breathtaking. There are sheepskins and blankets available in case it is cold outdoors but you can't bear to miss out on the view while eating a meal. This is a great place to stop for lunch when skiing or hiking in the mountains. The Patscherkofelbahn is directly beside the restaurant for easy transportation up and down the mountain. The dumplings are delicious and the salads tasty also. The schnitzel is also worth a try. The portion size is good and the price reasonable. In our opinion this is the nicest restaurant at Patscherkofel.

This restaurant is located at the top of the Pascherkofl cable car. It's quite a trek to get to from the center of Innsbruck, so I would only recommend it if you were planning to take the cable car to the top in the first place. This is pretty much also only a lunch or afternoon place as the cable car down ends at 5pm. The setting is a lovely mountain hut with an exquisite view of Innsbruck and the surrounding valleys. The food is excellent as well, a very good representation of the best of Austrian and local Tyrolean specialties including fried calves heads. We didn't get that adventurous, but our orders of beef noodle and dumpling soup, bacon and dumpling soup, and the fried veal sausage was all very good and tasted well seasoned with fresh ingredients. The bacon dumpling soup is especially recommended as it's a very unique dish with a giant baseball sized dumpling with Tyrolean bacon mixed in. The beef soup was very good as well and hearty with loads of tasty roasted beef and noodles. The fried veal sausage was excellent as well with a fresh homemade sausage, well seasoned potatoes (home fries we would call in the US), and excellent sauerkraut. Add in a very reasonably priced 50cl of Austrian beer, it makes for a great lunch. The only thing that made us slightly uncomfortable was that the owner seemed to be very friendly with all the Caucasian guests, which was all of the guest in the restaurant besides us, no matter the nationality. However it felt like our presence as non-Caucasians were only merely tolerated. This did seem to be a recurring theme with some Austrian establishments, but by no means all of them. Nevertheless it was a good lunch with great food and an even better view.