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Best Restaurants for Brunch in St Moritz (2026)
Summer brunch & breakfast terraces · St Moritz · 7 rooms ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published September 12, 2024 · Updated June 12, 2026 · Reviewed by Fredrik Filipsson, Editor-in-Chief · How we rank · Corrections
St Moritz has two seasons and two restaurant towns. The famous winter rooms, IGNIV and Ecco among them, shutter in spring and reopen in December, which makes them no help for a summer morning. This list is built for the green season: historic Konditorei in the Dorf, grand-hotel breakfast terraces facing the lake, and panoramic mountain rooms reached by funicular. These seven, all confirmed open in summer 2026, are where to brunch in the Engadin when the snow is gone.
1.Hotel Hauser
The most genuine summer brunch in town; book the Hauser terrace for the Sunday jazz brunch and homemade Nusstorte.
The Hauser family has run this hotel at Via Traunter Plazzas 7, in the middle of St Moritz Dorf, since 1955. The restaurant opens daily from 7am to 9pm, and the lake-view terrace lays out a large traditional brunch buffet, with the house Engadiner Nusstorte the thing to finish on. A brunch runs roughly 50 to 70 CHF.
For about fifteen years the terrace has hosted the Sunday brunch concerts of the Festival da Jazz St. Moritz, which runs each July. The hotel is open year-round, but the jazz brunch is the summer headline. Come on a Sunday in season, take a terrace table, and let the music run with the coffee.
2.Confiserie Hanselmann
The town's most reliable morning cafe; come to the landmark sgraffito house for Nusstorte and pastries any day, year-round.
Fritz Hanselmann founded this confiserie in 1894 in the Elvezia House at Via Maistra 8, its sgraffito facade now a Dorf landmark. The Engadiner Nusstorte, the pralines and a case of breakfast pastries pair with coffee from about 8 to 15 CHF, with the cafe open seven days a week from around 7:30am.
It is described as likely the first tea room in St Moritz and one of Switzerland's earliest coffee houses, with Audrey Hepburn and Coco Chanel among past patrons. It is the most dependable early-morning option in town, open every day and right through summer. Come for the breakfast pastries and walk out with a boxed Nusstorte.
3.Kulm Country Club
The best sunny long-lunch terrace; come Saturday in summer for Mauro Colagreco's Alpine Asado grill in the Foster-renovated pavilion.
The Kulm Country Club occupies the 1905 Olympic ice pavilion in Kulm Park, renovated by Norman Foster in 2017, with chef Mauro Colagreco of Mirazur consulting on the kitchen. The Saturday Alpine Asado grill lunch and Italian-Mediterranean plates run roughly 30 to 55 CHF a main, with more than seventy gins behind the bar.
It is summer-open from 12 June to 26 September 2026. This is the room for a late, brunch-adjacent weekend meal in the sun rather than a buffet. Come on a Saturday, sit out on the garden terrace, and let the asado and a long afternoon do the rest.
4.Kulm Hotel St. Moritz
A leading grand-hotel summer terrace; book the south-facing Kulm breakfast for a leisurely late morning over the lake.
The Kulm Hotel sits at Via Veglia 18 in St Moritz Dorf, the birthplace of Alpine winter tourism after an 1864 wager, owned by the Niarchos family. Its south-facing sun terrace overlooks the lake, and the grand-hotel breakfast buffet, open to non-residents, runs roughly 60 to 75 CHF.
The hotel is summer-open from 12 June to late August 2026, and the Italian-garden Summer Terrace pours chilled rosE and spritz into the afternoon. This is the classic grand-hotel late breakfast. Come mid-morning, take a terrace seat facing the lake, and stretch it toward lunch on the terrace bar.
5.Grand Hotel des Bains Kempinski
The strongest morning buffet in St Moritz Bad; come to Les Saisons for a lavish breakfast with seven regional signature dishes.
The Grand Hotel des Bains Kempinski stands at Via Mezdi 27 in St Moritz Bad, on the historic mineral-spring site. Its Grand Restaurant Les Saisons lays out a lavish breakfast buffet built around seven signature dishes inspired by regional traditions, served with piano music, at roughly 70 CHF for non-residents.
The hotel is open for the summer 2026 season and the Les Saisons breakfast is its publicly promoted signature experience. It is the best morning buffet on the Bad side of the resort, away from the Dorf crowds. Come for a slow, elegant breakfast and the spa lake afterward.
6.Restorant Lej da Staz
The best lakeside brunch walk; hike or bike to the Art-Nouveau chalet on Lake Staz for Engadine plates on the sun terrace.
Restorant Lej da Staz sits on Lake Staz at 1,815 metres, in the Stazerwald forest between St Moritz, Celerina and Pontresina, reached on foot or by bike. The historic Art-Nouveau chalet, run by the Laudinella Group, serves regional Engadine specialties on a large sun terrace, with mains roughly 28 to 48 CHF.
In summer the lake adds beach chairs and swimming jetties below the terrace. It is the room to build a morning around, walking in through the forest from the Dorf. Come for an unhurried lakeside lunch after the hike, and take a swim before the walk back.
7.Muottas Muragl Panorama
The best high-altitude late breakfast; ride the century-old funicular for a panoramic terrace over the whole Engadine lake plateau.
The Panorama Restaurant at Muottas Muragl perches at 2,456 metres above Pontresina and Samedan, reached by a funicular that has run for over a century, with the Romantik Hotel Muottas Muragl on the summit. The self-service Scatla restaurant and a panoramic a-la-carte terrace open daily from 11:30am to sunset in season, with light dishes roughly 18 to 35 CHF.
It is summer-open with the funicular running through the Engadin mountain season, and the terrace is one of the most popular sun decks in the valley. The view runs down the whole chain of Upper Engadine lakes. Come for a late, high-altitude breakfast and walk a stretch of the philosophy trail afterward.
Famous, but closed in summer
Worth knowing before you book
IGNIV by Andreas Caminada. The two-Michelin-star room at Badrutt's Palace, with seventeen Gault Millau points, runs only in the winter season, roughly December to April. It is closed in summer 2026.
Ecco St. Moritz. The two-star room at Giardino Mountain in Champfer is winter-only; chef Rolf Fliegauf cooks at Ecco on Lake Maggiore in Ascona during summer. Closed in the Engadin until December.
Da Vittorio St. Moritz. The two-star Cerea-brothers room at the Carlton Hotel is a winter operation; the Carlton's 2026/27 season runs only from 11 December. Closed in summer 2026.
How to brunch well in St Moritz
The single rule of a St Moritz summer morning is to check the season first. The marquee Michelin rooms, IGNIV, Ecco and Da Vittorio, are winter-only and shut from spring; this list is built entirely from rooms confirmed open in summer 2026, so you will not arrive to a locked door.
Decide if you want a town table or a mountain one. In the Dorf, Hanselmann and the Hauser terrace are walk-in or easy bookings; the grand-hotel breakfasts at Kulm and Kempinski are open to non-residents and worth reserving. For the best of summer, build the morning around a destination terrace, hiking to Lej da Staz or riding the funicular up to Muottas Muragl.
Frequently asked
Where is the best brunch in St Moritz in summer?
Hotel Hauser in St Moritz Dorf is the most genuine summer brunch, with a lake-view terrace buffet and a Sunday jazz brunch during July's Festival da Jazz. For a historic cafe, Confiserie Hanselmann on Via Maistra is open year-round; for a mountain morning, the panoramic terrace at Muottas Muragl above Pontresina.
Are the Michelin restaurants in St Moritz open in summer?
No. The famous two-star rooms, IGNIV by Andreas Caminada at Badrutt's Palace, Ecco St. Moritz at Giardino Mountain and Da Vittorio at the Carlton, are all winter-only and close in spring, reopening around December. For a summer meal you want the grand-hotel breakfasts and mountain terraces, all of which run through the green season.
Can you brunch on a mountain terrace near St Moritz?
Yes. The Panorama Restaurant at Muottas Muragl, at 2,456 metres above Pontresina, is reached by a century-old funicular and serves on a sun terrace overlooking the whole Engadine lake plateau. For a lakeside option, Restorant Lej da Staz on Lake Staz is a hike or bike through the Stazerwald forest from the Dorf.
Which grand-hotel breakfasts in St Moritz are open to non-residents?
The Kulm Hotel in the Dorf runs a south-facing terrace breakfast through summer, and the Grand Hotel des Bains Kempinski in St Moritz Bad serves its Les Saisons buffet, built around seven regional signature dishes, with piano. Both are open to non-residents in summer 2026 and are worth booking ahead for a weekend morning.
What should you eat at brunch in St Moritz?
The Engadine signature is Nusstorte, a caramel-and-walnut pie, and you will find the best examples at Confiserie Hanselmann and on the Hauser terrace. Beyond that, the grand hotels do lavish breakfast buffets, the Kulm Country Club runs a Saturday Alpine Asado grill, and the mountain terraces serve regional Engadine plates with the view doing half the work.
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