Gasthaus Goldenes Dachl

The house

The Gasthaus Goldenes Dachl is on the Hofgasse, the street linking the Golden Roof with the imperial palace, right in the old town. It is a Tyrolean eatery of the traditional kind, with wood-panelled rooms, but with the cooking brought up to date: the house says that 80% of what it buys comes from Tyrol or Austria, from suppliers it knows, and it details this on the menu.

What matters most if you are travelling: it is open every day, including Sundays and public holidays, from 11:00 to 23:00, and the kitchen serves without a break from 11:30 to 21:30. If you come down late from the mountain, you can still eat hot food here.

What to order

The menu is that of a Tyrolean gasthaus. To try the typical, the Tiroler Dachl Gröstl, a sauté of potato, meat and onion (€19.80; with a farm egg, €3.50 extra), or the tafelspitz broth with Kaspressknödel, a bread and cheese dumpling (€9.80). The schnitzel comes with homemade potato salad and cranberries: the Tyrolean veal one costs €33.50 and the pork one, €21.50. The tafelspitz, the boiled beef eaten all over Austria, is €29.10, and the venison ragout, €26.20.

There is a genuine vegetarian section: Kasspatzln, cheese dumplings with onion (€16.50), spinach knödel (€17) and organic potato gnocchi. For dessert, the Kaiserschmarrn (€16.50), Austria's torn, caramelised pancake, or the house apple strudel (€7.60). Austrian wine by the glass from €5.80 and Tyrolean beer from the Zillertal.

At these prices, a one-course meal with a drink comes to about €25–35 per person.

When to go and booking

At midday and in the evening it fills up: the old town passes in front of it. Book by phone or email, especially at weekends and in Advent.

The Nordkette funicular is five minutes away, and the Strudel-Café Kröll, with the same philosophy of regional produce, is a few doorways further down, on the same street.