Enjoy romantic walks along winding hiking trails and taste regional specialities after sunset. Hearty home-made dishes but also refined creations of gastronomy masters guarantee moments full of unique flavours and culinary pleasure.
Traditional Slovak specialities
Discover the traditional local gastronomy while staying in the region of the High Tatras and taste the Slovak cuisine while walking at the foothills, hiking in the mountains or cycling. Themed shepherd’s huts and folklore melodies invite customers to savour home-made delicacies made of quality ingredients. Gnocchi with bryndza (sheep cheese product), filled dumplings or gnocchi with sauerkraut, a typical sauerkraut soup or a garlic soup served with breathtaking views of the Tatra peaks can appease everyone’s hunger and melt their hearts. If you love sweet delights, we recommend any of the traditional cakes, home-made yeast dumplings filled with plum jam or gnocchi with poppy seeds served with live music in the background. Enjoy the modern variedness that is inspired by our forefathers. Try home-made goose pâté with a delicious “lokša” potato pancake and spoil your taste buds. But our region thinks of vegetarians too and they can choose from a wide range of salads and potato specialities.
Assorted culinary experiences
Restaurants in the High Tatras are like an endless source of unique moments. Local cooks avidly change ingredients to an explosion of flavours on the plate. They can transform traditional specialities into real works of art. Top modern trends and new combinations of flavours aspiring to become harmonious experiments. Dishes inspired by the surrounding nature with fragrant herbs and high trees. Fall in love with delicacies made by the best and the most skilled cooks. The kitchen of Gabo Kocák smells all around the historic square of Spišská Sobota in Poprad, the team of Tomáš Ševčík works hard in Tatranská Lomnica and a haze of delicious creations made in the kitchen of Miroslav Zamiška hovers above the surface of Štrbské pleso (tarn). Bakers and pastry cooks shouldn’t be forgotten either as they breathe a touch of elegance into flour and chocolate. Don’t miss seasonal specialities and choose from À la carte menus. Taste quality wine and mixed drinks during a tasting dinner and reward your taste buds with a flawless gastronomy experience.
Spectacular historic hotels
Choose a perfect dish and enhance the emotion with the atmosphere of beautiful historic hotels in the Tatras. Because the Region of the High Tatras doesn’t count on great food only but gets inspired by the history as well. Admire splendid half-timbered architecture with high windows through which warming sunrays fall onto set tables in restaurants. And all this is emphasised by paintings and smiling staff. A lunch or a dinner with big names like Ladislav Medňanský or Jaroslav Votruba is something one cannot say no to. Grandhotel Starý Smokovec takes its guests back to the noble times of the First Czecho-Slovak Republic when people were enjoying themselves in high style. Timeless elegance is typical also for the restaurant of Grand Hotel Kempinski High Tatras at the bank of Štrbské pleso (tarn), where the Tatra fairytale full of romance continues until today. And when renewing the so-called First Lady of the Tatras – the Lomnica Hotel, the year of 1894, when the hotel was opened, wasn’t forgotten either. Quite the opposite. Beautiful hotel rooms and halls are decorated with even more beautiful world-class paintings and every corner, from the reception to the café and the restaurant, has its own story and looks like a gallery. “Feel” the gastronomy of the Tatras in elegant rooms that literally smell of the origin, dance parties but also the war and the sadness of the past. All this is like an icing on the cake for everybody who spends a moment there.
Gastronomy high above the clouds
And how about experiencing a unique and unforgettable adventure in the basket of a hot air balloon? Start from below the High Tatras and enjoy a 60 – 90-minute flight with culinary specialities made by chefs of the Lomnica Hotel. For more information about culinary flights, please visit www.kuulinair.sk
Tatra Dinner of Emotions
Take your taste buds high to the sky and spend an unforgettable evening. Because the best Tatra adventures begin after dark. The evening starts with a welcome drink at the Après ski bar in Tatranská Lomnica at the foot of Mt Lomnický štít and continues with groomer transport to the restaurant at the interchange station Štart (1,173 m), which offers beautiful views of mountain panoramas. Discover a unique combination of tastes and several courses of delicacies served by candlelight. www.vt.sk
Dinner under the stars – Skalnaté pleso
Enjoy an atypical dinner under the stars of the Tatras and a unique atmosphere of a mountain embrace at night. The evening includes adventurous cable car transport to Skalnaté Pleso, a tasty dinner in the modern Panorama restaurant and watching the starry sky with professional astronomers of the Slovak Academy of Sciences including commentary. www.vt.sk
Fotografie: © Marek Hajkovský QEP
