Experience the “Kulinarium Steiermark“
Fine-dining restaurants, inns and traditional mountain huts – all of them treat their guests to a vast selection of Styrian delicacies.
Over 200 Kulinarium Steiermark partners cook with regional ingredients and create delicious dishes. With their culinary skills, they bring the numerous facets of Styria onto a plate in terms of taste. All this is paired with the tradition-conscious hospitality of the Styrians. This is how visitors experience what the true attitude to life in the Green Heart of Austria tastes like.
Styrian cuisine: regional and seasonal
The true taste of Styria is what the “Kulinarium Steiermark” restaurants are after. With plenty of passion and creativity, they create regional and seasonal dishes – whether it’s up at a mountain hut without electricity or at a three-star restaurant.
The “Kulinarium Steiermark” businesses even have their own quality seal, the “green heart”. This quality seal is based on ten special “enjoyment rules”. Among others, they include use of local ingredients with a verifiable origin as well as cooking in line with the seasons.
What’s more, “Kulinarium Steiermark“ sees participating chefs as ambassadors of good taste, treating their guests to exquisite moments of indulgence by way of top-class regional dishes.
Take a pinch of passion and add to it a bit of deliciousness and Styrian hospitality and what you get is a tasteful stay in Styria!
The 10 enjoyment rules of “Kulinarium Steiermark”
Kulinarium Steiermark ...
- ... seeks to establish the green heart of Austria as an appealing destination for gourmets and foodies.
- ... sees itself as a partner for all those who offer fresh products and distinctive taste at the intersection of tradition and state-of-the-art cuisine.
- ... guarantees a uniform, authentic cuisine across Styria.
- ... is aware that good Styrian cuisine cannot succeed without respectful partnerships between Styrian chefs and the region’s farmers and producers.
- ... encourages guests to enjoy pioneering, creative Styrian cuisine.
- ... promotes “culinary craftsmanship“ that produces ingredients for authentic Styrian dishes and at the same time creates new traditions.
- ... seeks to make a contribution to joy of life by means of a healthy diet revolving around high-quality, tasty ingredients and a cultivated dining culture.
- ... is committed to the claim “from the region, for the region“.
- ... relies on dealers who assemble their product range locally and simply sell “good stuff”.
- ... sees chefs as sustainable „ambassadors of good taste“.
Styrian hosts between glacier and wine-growing region
The taste of Styria
Kulinarium Steiermark: a variety of flavours between alpine pastures and vineyards
Steiermark is known as Austria's delicatessen region - with products such as beetle beans, sheep's noses and Murbodner beef, which are grown between the Ennstal mountain pastures and the vineyards of southern Styria. This diversity characterises a cuisine that ranges from hearty alpine snacks to gourmet menus.
Kulinarium Steiermark consultant Willi Haider has selected 209 gourmet establishments that offer the highest quality and genuine regionality. Whether for a short culinary holiday, a gourmet trip through Styria or a visit to one of the many regional restaurants: Anyone who loves genuine, seasonal food characterised by the region is guaranteed to find what they are looking for in Styria. Because here, flavour is deeply rooted in the region.
All Kulinarium Steiermark huts at a glance
Styria attracts visitors with around 1,660 Alpine pastures and the Almenland Nature Park, one of the largest Alpine pasture areas in Europe. At the huts, you can enjoy regional specialties such as homemade cheese, fresh alpine butter, hearty snacks and warm delicacies from cheese dumplings to venison ragout. There is also clear mountain air, sweeping views and real moments of enjoyment while hiking or skiing.
GIVE JOY
With the Styria vouchers it is easy to gift joy. The vouchers offer a wealth of possibilities. Over 120 culinary partners invite you to enjoy, 110 accommodation establishments to stay and 9 excursion destinations to discover.
