Taste the Best of Mountain Summer

Award-Winning Cuisine. The Culinary Way of St. James. Region of Culinary Excellence: Paznaun Colorado has upped the yum-factor on elevated dining, inspired by regional gifts and the surrounding mountains. Find out how finest, locally sourced ingredients and celebrity chefs are making the valley’s cuisine tastier than ever. In 2007, the valley became a designated “Region of Culinary Excellence”. Known for culinary delights such as Paznaun Valley Mountain Cheese, dry-cured bacon and sausages and honey, the area is home to many specialty food producers.

The Culinary Way of St. James is a unique, annual dining experience that celebrates the awesome beauty of nature and the rich talent of local cheese makers, farmers and culinary artisans: Each year at the beginning of summer season, award-winning chefs from all over Europe create delicious contemporary cuisine with a Tyrolean accent to complement the unique, secluded settings of Paznaun Valley’s mountain huts and shelters. And all summer long, hikers can taste the crème de la crème of epicurean delights at these huts, all under Paznaun Valley’s brilliant Alpine skies.

Celebrity Chefs live here: Three Gault Millau awarded chefs blend culinary skill with a love of locally grown ingredients at Paznaun Valley restaurants, Martin Sieberer, Benjamin Parth and Gunther Döberl.