Charming restaurant with fantastic mountain views
Come and dine with us
In summer our Monchs Shack serves delicious food from the barbeque. (12-6pm) If you’d like to join us for our home cooked 3-course menu please make a reservation.
Our Restaurant offers European cuisine as well as traditional Alpine dishes. The food is delicious, seasonal and homemade.
Enjoy the breathtaking views from the terrace, have a drink at the bar or rest by the log fire.
Drinks will be served all day, visitors welcome!
Special Event – 100th aniversary of Walter Mittler
July 18th 2024 would have been Walter`s 100th birthday. We would like to take this opportunity to celebrate his influence on Gimmelwald since the beginning of the 1980s.
1972 Walter Mittler opened the Hotel Mittaghorn to give his sick aunt the opportunity to live in an healthy mountain environment. The first visitors were Swiss Hikers and children on their school trips. At the end of the 70s the American travel agent Rick Steves found the hotel by luck. In his first book „Europe through the back door“ from 1980 he talked with a lot of empathy about the little, rustic hote high in the Swiss Alpes. This was the beginning of international tourism in Gimmelwald. Business became very successful. Generations of Ski groups in winter and hiking groups in summer returned year after year.
Walters enthusiasm about moderate tourism and prices generated more and more guests.
Through his own work, organization skills (I don’t change the menu-I change the guests) and modesty, he was able to cover the costs for the hotel and even support an indigoes village in South America. In the last 20 years he got help from his neighbour Rosi Feuz and Tim Knights who also organized paragliding flights.
With increasing age Walter reduced the number of rented rooms so that he was still able to welcome guests until his death on the 1st of January 2020.
Walter was a loner, vigorous, absolutely authentic, a wonderful host and in his last years happy, that he got the recognition of the people from Gimmelwald and even the director of the Schilthorn Bahn.
Walter Mittler will live on in the hearts of many guests and friends and will continue to give us many happy memories.
To celebrate his 100th birthday on the 18th of July our chef Winfried will cook the original „Walter Mittler Menu“ at the Hotel Pension Gimmelwald. Before that the new owners of the Mittaghorn will offer a reception and tour of the old hotel before it will get renovated.
Limited spaces, please reserve until the 11th of July at Pension Gimmelwald.
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