Best Restaurants in Innsbruck: Where to Eat

The Shortlist by Type and Area

This table lists each restaurant with its type, its area and who rates or describes it: the Gault&Millau Austria guide, the MICHELIN Guide or the venue's own site.

MICHELIN Listings and Price Bands

This table lists the Innsbruck restaurants the MICHELIN Guide includes, with the price band the guide prints. Check each restaurant's page in the guide for any star before you book a special night.

Oniriq, the Top Score

Oniriq is a creative fine dining restaurant at Bürgerstrasse 13 in the centre. Gault&Millau gives it 4 toques and 18/20, the highest rating among the restaurants on this page. It sits in the top MICHELIN price band of four euro signs, the guide's most expensive band.

Café Arkadenhof is the newest MICHELIN listing in the city, tagged New in the guide.

Gault&Millau Toques in Innsbruck

This table ranks the Innsbruck restaurants rated by the Gault&Millau Austria guide, from its highest score down, with each one's area so you can match dinner to your base.

How to Pick Among Them

Staying in the Old Town, die Wilderin at Seilergasse 5 is the 2-toque table inside the lanes. Fischiff at Josef-Wilberger-Strasse 19 sits on the Inn bank east of the centre. Bistro Gourmand and Blum score 12.5/20 and 12/20 and sit outside the tourist core, in the north-east and the west of the city.

Goldener Adler

Goldener Adler is a traditional Tyrolean inn at Herzog-Friedrich-Strasse 6, the main Old Town lane. Its own site says the inn goes back to 1390 and serves regional cuisine. It is the pick for a first Tyrolean meal after a morning at the Golden Roof.

die Wilderin

die Wilderin is at Seilergasse 5 in the Altstadt. Gault&Millau rates it at 2 toques and 13.5/20, the highest score inside the Old Town lanes.

Café Munding

Café Munding at Kiebachgasse 16 calls itself Tirol's oldest Konditorei-Café and has been family-run since 1803. Stop here for coffee and cake between sights.

Three Listed Addresses

Das Schindler at number 31 serves seasonal cuisine, with 2 toques and 13/20 from Gault&Millau and a €€€ MICHELIN band. lichtblick at number 18 is an international, contemporary restaurant on a top floor with all-round windows looking over Innsbruck and the mountains, in the €€ band. Restaurant Café Arkadenhof at number 34 is a modern cafe-restaurant, also €€, and new to the MICHELIN Guide. All three are a short walk from the Old Town, which makes the street a good base for travellers who eat out every night.

Mountain Tables Compared

This table compares the restaurants with a view by height and how you reach them, with cable car fares from the Nordkettenbahnen price list.

Timing Your Mountain Meal

The Seegrube restaurant is open all year, and every Sunday in Advent it holds an Advent brunch from 10:00 to 13:00. The Nordkette lifts close for maintenance from 2 to 19 November, and the winter season runs from 20 November to 25 April. Bergisel's Sky restaurant shuts with the stadium from 9 to 13 November.

Fare details and stations are on the Nordkette cable car guide.

Inns, Cafés and Desserts

Goldener Adler is an inn that goes back to 1390, and it still cooks regional cuisine. Café Munding keeps the Konditorei tradition alive and has done so since 1803. On the Innsbruck Walking Food Tour with Full Meal, a local foodie guide leads at least 4 stops of traditional Tyrolean specialties and classic desserts, paired with Austrian wines and beers. Guests with severe food allergies cannot take part.

The History and Strudel Walk in Innsbruck takes 2 hours and ends with strudel or gelato and coffee or tea. Its guide worked as a chef for around 18 years.

Markthalle Innsbruck

The Markthalle at Herzog-Siegmund-Ufer 1-3 sits on the Inn bank on the Altstadt side. Its own site lists more than 40 vendors and 7 gastronomy businesses. The hall opens Monday to Friday 7:00 to 18:00 and Saturday 7:00 to 13:00.

It is the place for a quick lunch or picnic supplies before the Nordkette.

Outside the Centre

Fischiff at Josef-Wilberger-Strasse 19 holds 2 toques and 13/20, on the Inn bank east of the centre. Bistro Gourmand at Tempistrasse 4 in the north-east scores 1 toque and 12.5/20. Blum at Fürstenweg 7 in the west scores 1 toque and 12/20.

In Advent, the seven Christmas markets add about 200 stalls from 13 November to 6 January, and the Innsbruck Christmas Markets Guided Tour includes a mulled wine or hot drink and a Kiachl, a local fried pastry.