The Madonna di Campiglio List
Five editorial picks, ranked by the only filter that matters: why you are dining.
Stube Hermitage
The original Madonna di Campiglio Michelin star, chef Giovanni D'Alitta's intimate stube room, eighteen seats, and the most romantic dining environment in the Brenta Dolomites.
Dolomieu
Chef Enrico Croatti's contemporary Italian one-star at DV Chalet, the village's most architecturally striking dining room and the most reliable client-entertaining address.
Il Gallo Cedrone
Hotel Bertelli's quietly excellent one-star, chef Sabino Fortunato cooks regional Trentino with deep Italian-national technique.
Alfiero
Hotel Bertelli's classic-Trentino brasserie sister to Il Gallo Cedrone, the village's most reliable shared-plate dining and the locals' default address.
Rifugio Graffer
2,260 metres at the foot of the Grostè massif, the canonical Brenta Dolomites mountain refuge, open year-round and the village's daily lunch anchor.
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Il Gallo Cedrone
Hotel Bertelli's quietly excellent one-star, chef Sabino Fortunato cooks regional Trentino with deep Italian-national technique.
Alfiero
Hotel Bertelli's classic-Trentino brasserie sister to Il Gallo Cedrone, the village's most reliable shared-plate dining and the locals' default address.
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Stube Hermitage
The original Madonna di Campiglio Michelin star, chef Giovanni D'Alitta's intimate stube room, eighteen seats, and the most romantic dining environment in the Brenta Dolomites.
Dolomieu
Chef Enrico Croatti's contemporary Italian one-star at DV Chalet, the village's most architecturally striking dining room and the most reliable client-entertaining address.
The Top Five in Madonna di Campiglio
Ranked against a single question: if you had one night in Madonna di Campiglio, where would you go?
Stube Hermitage
The original Madonna di Campiglio Michelin star, chef Giovanni D'Alitta's intimate stube room, eighteen seats, and the most romantic dining environment in the Brenta Dolomites.
Dolomieu
Chef Enrico Croatti's contemporary Italian one-star at DV Chalet, the village's most architecturally striking dining room and the most reliable client-entertaining address.
Il Gallo Cedrone
Hotel Bertelli's quietly excellent one-star, chef Sabino Fortunato cooks regional Trentino with deep Italian-national technique.
Alfiero
Hotel Bertelli's classic-Trentino brasserie sister to Il Gallo Cedrone, the village's most reliable shared-plate dining and the locals' default address.
Rifugio Graffer
2,260 metres at the foot of the Grostè massif, the canonical Brenta Dolomites mountain refuge, open year-round and the village's daily lunch anchor.
The Madonna di Campiglio Dining Guide
Madonna di Campiglio sits at 1,550 metres in central the Brenta Dolomites, the western half of the UNESCO-listed Dolomites range, and is the most aristocratic of the Italian luxury Alpine resorts. The Habsburg royal family vacationed here annually from 1881 onward; the village's central Hofer hotel was built specifically for the Empress Sissi's 1894 visit; and the village's medieval church holds a marble bust of Franz Joseph that no other Italian Alpine village can claim. The car-free Pradalago plaza at the village centre runs into a dramatic 360-degree panorama of the Brenta peaks, the most photographed Italian Alpine view outside Cortina.
The dining is correspondingly serious. Stube Hermitage at the Biohotel Hermitage was the village's first Michelin-starred kitchen (since 2008) under chef Giovanni D'Alitta; Dolomieu at DV Chalet runs the village's second one-star under chef Enrico Croatti; Il Gallo Cedrone at Hotel Bertelli runs the third under chef Sabino Fortunato. Together the three Michelin-starred rooms make Madonna di Campiglio the densest Michelin concentration in the Italian Alps after Cortina. Mountain pasture restaurants, Rifugio Graffer, Chalet Fiat, Malga Boch, run the lunch programme.
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Reservations & Practical Notes
Stube Hermitage, Dolomieu and Il Gallo Cedrone must be booked four to six weeks ahead in February-March peak; two to three weeks shoulder season. Mountain restaurants take phone bookings two to three days ahead. Dress is alpine-elegant; jackets only at the three Michelin-starred rooms. Tipping is not expected in Italy; a 5 to 10 per cent round-up is polite for exceptional service. Most kitchens close 14:30 to 19:00; do not arrive expecting late lunches.
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