Eastern Alps Restaurants

While this region contains fine restaurants—in fact, two of the country's top dozen dining establishments are here—most of the dining in the small towns of the Eastern Alps will take place in Gasthöfe or Gasthäuser (country hotels or inns)—chalet-style inns with flower-decked balconies and overhanging eaves. The dining rooms are not necessarily separate restaurants frequented by nonguests. Note that in many cases such inns are closed in the off-season, particularly November and possibly April or May.