Best Restaurants in Kitzbühel

Kitzbühel eats in two very different ways. In town there’s a small group of restaurants with serious guide ratings, plus plenty of Tyrolean inns in and around the old town. On the mountains there are dozens of huts, where a plate of Gröstl in the sun is half the reason people come.

This page is about dinner and town meals, sorted by occasion, so you can pick a restaurant for the one evening that matters and somewhere simple for the rest. If you’re earlier in the process, our planning basics cover dates and bases first.

How we chose (and what we didn’t do)

We haven’t eaten at these places, and we don’t review them. Every restaurant here is listed for a reason you can check: a current rating on Gault&Millau or the Michelin Guide, or a listing by the lift company or tourist board. Where we couldn’t confirm a current rating, we left the rating out. We don’t give prices, phone numbers or opening hours; they change, and the restaurants’ own sites are the place to check.

Special-occasion dinners

For one big dinner, start with the guide ratings, all checked in November 2026. Les Deux Kitzbühel, a modern French brasserie, is the only Michelin-starred restaurant in the Kitzbühel area in the Michelin Guide Austria 2026. Gault&Millau rates it 16.5/20 with 3 toques (2027), the highest score we found here.

Below it, Gault&Millau gives 2 toques to Zuma (14/20), Lois Stern and Neuwirt (13.5/20 each), and Michelin lists all three as selected, without a star or Bib Gourmand. Seebichl, outside the centre with a view of the Schwarzsee, holds 12.5/20 and 1 toque and suits a quieter evening. Older lists may still show a second star at Berggericht in the Hinterstadt; it isn’t on Michelin’s 2026 star list or the current Kitzbühel listing, so we’ve left it out.

For what each kitchen cooks and how the two guides describe them, see our page on the Michelin-listed restaurants.

Where to eat in Kitzbühel’s old town

The old town is small, and much of the eating in town happens on its two main streets, the Vorderstadt and the Hinterstadt, or just off them.

On the Vorderstadt itself, the Huberbräu-Stüberl at number 18 is listed by Kitzbühel Tourismus as a cosy inn with regional dishes and Tyrolean specialities. It doesn’t take reservations, which makes it the obvious fallback on a night when everything else is full; in peak weeks, go early.

The guide-rated kitchens are in the streets around it. Neuwirt, in the Hotel Schwarzer Adler at Florianigasse 15, within walking distance of the Vorderstadt, mixes Austrian classics such as Backhendl with international dishes, so if your group includes someone who wants a Schnitzel and someone who doesn’t, it’s the safer pick. Don’t confuse it with the Schwarzer Adler inn in Jochberg, a separate Michelin-listed restaurant south of town. Zuma serves modern Japanese sharing plates in the Hotel Weißes Rössl on Bichlstraße, good for a group that has had enough dumplings for one week. Lois Stern on Josef-Pirchl-Straße cooks Asian-influenced food, and Les Deux is on Franz-Reisch-Straße.

Our suggestion for a first evening: walk in for Tyrolean food at the Huberbräu-Stüberl, and save the booked dinner for later in the week, once you know which night you’ll want it.

Traditional Tyrolean in town

For most dinners, a Gasthaus is the better choice. Expect wood-panelled rooms, big portions and the same core menu almost everywhere: Tiroler Gröstl, Kaspressknödel in broth, Spinatknödel with brown butter, and Kaiserschmarrn to finish.

Three are worth naming because a guide backs them. Mocking das Wirtshaus, on Hahnenkammstraße near the gondola, holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for regional cooking. s’Pfandl in Reith bei Kitzbühel serves classic Tyrolean food and holds 1 toque in the Gault&Millau 2027 guide. Jodlbühel in Jochberg, south of town, is a family-run inn with 1 toque (2027), praised by the guide for its Gröstl and its pastry.

Huts on the slopes and trails

On a ski or hiking day, lunch is at a hut, and we cover them properly in our guide to the best huts for lunch. Three names to start with, all from the KitzSki hut directory: on the Hahnenkamm, the Hocheckhütte right beside the Streif race course and the Hahnenkammstüberl near the Hahnenkammbahn top station; on the sunny Kitzbüheler Horn, the Hornköpflhütte.

Hut hours follow the lifts, so dinner is always back in town, with where to go after the lifts close in between. In summer, many huts become the goal of a walk; our summer hiking guide links routes to them.

Casual, quick and budget

Not every meal needs a booking. Bakeries in the old town sell filled rolls and pastries that work as a ski-pocket lunch, pizzerias cover family dinners, and supermarkets make a picnic easy in summer. Kitzbühel has a reputation for high prices, but you only pay them if you eat out three times a day. Our page on budgeting for Kitzbühel has more ways to keep costs down.

At a glance

Booking tips

Book dinner ahead for the peak weeks: Christmas to New Year, Hahnenkamm race week in January, and the February school holidays. The guide-rated places fill first. Outside those weeks, a day or two ahead is usually enough, though Saturday nights in high season stay busy.

Staying close to the restaurants you want saves taxi fares on cold nights. Our guide to the best areas to stay shows which parts of town are walkable to the old town.

The right mix

For most trips, book one special dinner, eat Tyrolean in and around the old town on the other nights, and leave lunch to the huts. It’s the cheaper mix, and it’s the one most visitors end up with anyway. Fit it into one of our sample itineraries, then see what else to do in Kitzbühel between meals.