1477 Reichhalter: dinner downstairs, a room upstairs
An old inn in the centre of Lana with a café and restaurant on the ground floor and eight rooms above.
1477 Reichhalter stands in Metzgergasse, in Lana's pedestrian zone, about 300 metres from its partner hotel, the Schwarzschmied. It works the other way round from most hotels: the café and restaurant are open from breakfast to dinner, currently Monday to Saturday, and you don't have to stay to eat there.
Breakfast runs from 8 to 10.30 am, lunch is a small seasonal menu from 12 to 2 pm, and dinner is served from 6 to 9 pm. At lunch, locals and visitors share the historic dining room. You don't need a room upstairs to eat here. After dinner, you'll wish you had one.
Andreas Heinisch has been head chef since 2018. He cooks inn food with a Mediterranean streak from a short menu that changes every month: in autumn that has meant ravioli al plin or venison tataki, at other times tortelloni with chanterelles or sea bass baked in foil.
Upstairs, no two of the eight rooms are alike. Each has its own layout and is named after a person or a former use from the history of the house, and size and balconies vary, so it is worth choosing a specific room. Architect Zeno Bampi and interior designer Christina Biasi-von Berg designed the building, and photographs by Jasmine Deporta are part of the interior. There is Wi-Fi and air conditioning, but deliberately no TV.
The Reichhalter has no spa of its own, but guests can use the one at the Schwarzschmied free of charge. On Sundays the restaurant is closed, a good evening for Miil at the Kränzelhof in Tscherms, about five minutes away by car.
It is less a hotel with a restaurant than a restaurant with eight rooms above it, which suggests the order for booking: the table first, then the room.
