Cafeteria Isard

At the base of the resort

The Cafeteria Isard is at 2,035 metres, at the base of Boí Taüll, the highest resort in the Pyrenees. It is the main place to eat on the pistes and has two floors with two different ways of eating.

On the ground floor, the café: cold and hot bocadillos, burgers, pastries and a wide selection of cold and hot drinks, for the first coffee of the day or a quick bocadillo between runs. On the first floor it serves a full sit-down meal, with first courses, main courses and desserts; the resort says it has renewed the offering. It is the only one of the resort's cafés with a dining room upstairs.

The resort does not publish the Isard's menu, prices, hours or capacity. For any questions, its phone is 973 297 085.

Other stops on the pistes

At the same level are La Guineu, with cold and hot bocadillos, burgers, pastries and drinks, and Cow Boí, with bocadillos, burgers and drinks. Higher up, the Cafeteria La Carlina, at 2,170 metres, opens its outdoor bar Friday to Tuesday with cold bocadillos, bikinis, crestes and vermouth, and at weekends opens the indoor room with hot bocadillos and burgers. The Mirador Vaques, at 2,310 metres, offers bocadillos and drinks with views.

When it fits

With children, because the Isard is at the base and you can eat sitting down without going up with them. For the rest of the group, the Carlina and the Mirador are the short break without going down to the base.

The pistes are open from 9:00 to 16:45, last lift; from 31 March, until 16:00. The day lift pass costs €49 for adults buying online, €3 more at the ticket office.

Getting there

The resort is about 8 km from Taüll and the Pla de l'Ermita along a mountain road that climbs above 2,000 metres: take chains. There are free car parks at the base, P1 and P2. At weekends and public holidays the Bus de la Neu goes up from Vilaller through the valley's villages, for €1. For dinner afterwards, go down into the valley: in Taüll there is El Caliu and in Boí, the Restaurant Pey.