Where to eat: Avise, La Salle, Saint-Nicolas, Saint-Pierre

VEGETATION
Mixed conifer (Red Spruce and Larch) and broad-leaved trees (Chestnut, Ash, Cherry, Oak, Birch and Lime) woodland. Undergrowth composed of Dog Rose and Berberis.

HOW TO GET THERE
It can be reached by taking the regional road linking Avise with Saint- Nicolas.

AREA PANORAMA
From the area you can see: to the North-West the Mount Blanc chain, to the South-West the Paramont range to the South the Tour Ronde and Mount Colombo, and to the South-East Mount Grivola.

EXCURSIONS
• By taking the path leaving the area you arrive to the Frenay river waterfall.

Situated along the SS 26 trunk road, the restaurant bar includes an outdoor terrace, a picnic area that accommodates up to 100 people, a covered area for parties and 10 barbecues for grilling food. The synthetic football pitches, tennis and playground make it a popular haunt with a lively young crowd. PIzzeria service.

The restaurant hotel offers genuine, simple and home cooking and national and Aosta Valley dishes.
The restaurant is located in a strategic position, at the starting point for visiting the Gran Paradiso area and the Vertosan valley.

Wines and mountain cuisine in the rooms of the fifteenth-century castle of the Lords of Avise, the only Aosta Valley castle used for quality catering. Few typical dishes representative of the best local agricultural production. Rich wine cellar: 185 Aosta Valley labels, 3 Cooperatives and the small Aosta Valley producers.

At the bottom of the magnificent Comba di Vertosan, you will find the small Lo Gran Baou tavern restaurant. The building has been converted from a seventeenth century mountain hut and is furnished with traditional “arte povera” furniture and enhanced with numerous almost unknown objects and tools. For nature lovers, there are some interesting walks where you can admire unpolluted spots; some of them were walked by Pope John Paul II during his holidays in the Valley d’Aosta.
Accomodation is also available by the rooms of the Grand Baou

The bistrot wine bar offers a welcoming atmosphere and well-prepared quick dishes. Wide choice of Aosta Valley and national wines and many types of Italian beer but above all Belgian and German including Alpen Beer and Ganter.
Open all day, no closing day.

VEGETATION
The area is mostly situated in an old Larch pasture, with Red Spruce around the edges, where the animals hadn’t grazed.

HOW TO GET THERE
After passing La Salle town, continue onwards in the direction of Planaval until you pass the Morge Dessus district.

AREA PANORAMA
In front of the area you can clearly see the ““Vallon”“ and the Promuod with Mount Paramont in the background; to the West you can admire the Mont Blanc mountain chain; to the East you can look across the central valley to the side valleys of Valgrisenche, Valsavarenche and Valle di Rhêmes.

EXCURSIONS
• From the area it is possible to reach the village called Grassey, the cottages in Licony, the lake of the same name and the new Pascal bivouac on Licony head.

Near the picnic area: take-off area paragliding and landing area light aircraft (piper)

You need to bring wood, which is not available on site.

Please leave the area clean.

The restaurant is located inside the hotel of the same name.
Courtesy, tradition combined with the authenticity of the dishes: this is the main recipe. The cuisine is personally supervised by the owners and offers a typical Aosta Valley menu with a wide choice. All combined with an extensive wine list.

Restaurant located inside the hotel of the same name
This family-run restaurant offers traditional regional home cooking. Bookings welcome.

A window that opens onto the view of Mont Blanc and goes beyond the boundaries of the classic Aosta valley cuisine. A constant research of raw materials grown and produced in the territory.

TEMPORARILY CLOSED
Restaurant located inside the hotel of the same name.
Established in the 1950s as an inn for smugglers, who crossed the Col Serena from Switzerland, the Jolie Bergère has now become a historic place with an increasingly typical and characteristic trait. Mirror of the Aosta Valley tradition, it stands out for its innovative but typically genuine cuisine and for its intimate and familiar atmosphere. Characteristic of the dishes is the use of local products and wild herbs, directly chosen and collected by the Chef.

Renovated chalet surrounded by greenery with typical and genuine cuisine using exclusively products of the company.

The restaurant is located inside the hotel of the same name.
Furnished in typical Valdostano style, the restaurant offers a nice view on the mountains thanks to the large windows inside the room. In addition to the refined flavors of Italian and Provençal cuisine, typical Aosta Valley dishes and many hand-prepared specialties are served: bread, breadsticks, fresh pasta, desserts and ice cream. Don’t miss the mountain herbs sorbet prepared by the Chef.
The cellar is full of carefully selected wines to accompany the dishes and satisfy even the most refined palates.

The inviting atmosphere is based essentially on the quality of the cuisine. The restaurant offers dishes of fish, excellent grilled meat, great pizza cooked in wood oven.

The Restaurant Pizzeria La Macina is located in the charming streets of the historic center of La Salle. The selection and processing of raw materials is the result of an accurate selection to ensure freshness and authenticity of the products themselves. The warm and friendly, the customer care and great tasting meals and pizzas, make the Macina an ideal place for lunches and dinners in a relaxing surrounded by the beautiful landscape of Valdigne.

VEGETATION
Woodland composed of mature Larch trees with some Red Spruce and Birch. Undergrowth composed of Juniper, Berberis, Goat Willow and Bearberry.

HOW TO GET THERE
Easy to reach, due to its proximity to Saint-Nicolas town.

AREA VIEW
The area overlooks the central valley. Starting in the South West and looking South you can see Becca del Merlo, Mount Grivola, Punta del Gran Nomenon; while Mount Emilius is located to the South East.

EXCURSIONS
• From Bois de la Tour you can cross the vineyards in the Enfer area and arrive to Arvier.
• From Saint-Nicolas town you can reach the Vens district and from here continue to Comba di Vertosan.

The hotel restaurant is located in Saint-Nicolas, a village located at an altitude of 1200 meters, from which you can have a splendid view of the Gran Paradiso valleys and the surrounding mountains. The restaurant proposes home cooking and typical dishes.

In Fossaz Dessous village, near the central square of Saint-Nicolas, the small restaurant offers simple dishes of italian cuisine alternating with those of Aosta Valley cuisine. Inside tabac, shop and newspaper.

Takeaway and home delivery service
For lunch only (12am - 2pm).

The bar-restaurant is located in the sports area in the center of the village. Local cuisine.

The Vagneur family’s hotel restaurant overlooking the main square in the village of Vens, not only offers a fantastic view across the valley but welcomes its guests with inborn cordiality in a warm, delightful atmosphere accompanied by the pleasures of the table.

TEMPORARILY CLOSED

The Saint Nicolas restaurant hotel is family run. The cuisine, simple, home-made and genuine, offers regional and national dishes.

Takeaway and home delivery
Every day, by telephone order within the previous day, in the municipality of Saint-Nicolas

The refuge, accessible only on foot, is a new structure with the appearance of a typical mountain cabin. For the construction, both inside and outside, it was used local old wood.
The restaurant offers typical mountain cuisine and traditional dishes of the Aosta Valley accompanied by a large wine selection and local beers. In sunny days, the shelter offers in the menu grilled meats. The desserts, made exclusively by the chef, are served throughout the day.

The Locanda Dei Sognatori restaurant is a place where you can taste the most famous traditional regional dishes, but also interesting proposals of revisited Mediterranean cuisine based on typical local products.

The restaurant hotel is large and bright, in a welcoming alpine style. The tables can become oval, rectangular or square, depending on the customer’s request. On winter days, the fireplace always on guarantees a family and intimate atmosphere.
The restaurant offers customers dishes prepared with product at km 0*: fontina cheese from the pastures, honey from the nearby meadows, vegetables from the garden, true and intense mountain flavors.
The menu also includes vegetarian dishes and particular attention is paid to food intolerances.

The restaurant, self service offers services for any kind of guests. A simple furniture and an attention always kept on the customer. Open self-service at lunch for a genuine, fast and not expensive break.

Takeaway
From Monday to Friday for lunch

The restaurant offers a family environment with traditional cuisine where you can uncover tastes from the past, enraptured by the panorama that you can enjoy from the terrace: 180° of pure meditation. Reservation recommended.

Dal Fornaro del Castello is not the usual pizzeria: the restaurant offers Neapolitan-inspired doughs with 4 flours and the leavening of the dough for 48h, classic and gourmet pizzas, fresh fish dishes and meat with a constant attention to the quality and the territoriality of raw materials.

Takeaway pizza

The holiday farmhouse, located 8 km from Aosta, 25 km from Courmayeur, in front of the valleys of the Gran Paradiso National Park, on the hill of Saint-Pierre, in a peaceful, sunny area with a picturesque view, is aimed at those who want to combine comfort and class with a rural tourist experience immersed in the local wine culture. A real wine farm where the scent of old wood mingles with the flavor of grapes produced with the best winemaking techniques.

The products offered are local and genuine, to ensure an unforgettable experience, of total immersion in the splendid Aosta Valley context. The served wines are self-produced.

The holiday farm is located on Saint-Pierre hill and offers a 360° view on the whole central valley in still untouched nature.
Plates are prepared with farm produce and the composition of the menu changes following the changing of the seasons.
Production and direct sales of goat cheese, toma, ricotta and cold cuts.