a slutti mountain secret [restaurant]

your itinerary for the ultimate dinner in winter paradise

You know a restaurant is good if you risk your life for it.

It’s kind of how everything goes during a settimana bianca in Valle D’Aosta. Black ice? Glaciers? Traveling up 7000 feet in a wonky funivia? No big deal when you know there’s going to be cheese at the end.

Honestly I am quite impressed how calmly I handled traveling up the foothills of the Alps at night with black ice hidden at every turn. Granted, in Courmayeur - a well funded ski town in Valle D’Aosta (by well-funded I mean the shops lean more Dior than Decathlon) - the roads are rather taken care of. Still, we are in the mountains and there comes a point where you enter zero street lights high beams only territory. It gives horror film. And, I like it.

Especially with all the amazing food awaiting us at the top.