Murren - eat, drink, party

Restaurants in town

Some of the best food in Mürren is served at the Eiger Stübli (00 41 33 856 54 54) including English-style roast beef, Escalope of pork with Calvados sauce, and grilled sole, all with rösti if requested! Dessert specialities include plum sorbet with Prosecco and frozen parfait with Grand Marnier.

The restaurant at the Hotel Alpenruh (00 41 33 856 88 00) has a varied à la carte menu too, with such dishes as veal steak with a Dijon mustard sauce or lamb cutlet with a garlic-herb sauce.

The menu at the Gruebi Restaurant in the Hotel Jungfrau (00 41 33 856 64 64) offers such specialities as Chateaubriand, New York steak, rack of lamb, and veal with fruit in a cognac sauce.

Mountain restaurants

There is one restaurant that everyone should visit – the revolving Piz Gloria (00 41 33 856 21 40), which rotates through 360 degrees every hour and featured in the James Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

The views are awesome, but take care not to leave your things on the ledge beneath the window – as you slowly rotate, you’ll leave them behind.

Lower down the mountain, you'll find more traditional pit-stops. The Suppenalp (00 41 33 855 17 26) is perfectly placed to welcome skiers and boarders using the Schiltgrat chair and the Allendhubelbahn funicular. Most meals are cooked over a wood stove.

The Schilthornhutte (00 41 33 855 50 53) higher up, by the Muttlern and Kandahar lifts has excellent Kaffee Fertig (coffee with schnaps).

Après-ski and nightlife

Evening entertainment is fairly sedate and generally limited to the hotels – typically it revolves around fondue evenings, glacier bars and dance clubs.

The Biemlichäller in the Hotel Blumental and the Tächi Bar at the Hotel Eiger are always worth a visit, and next door the Eiger, Alan and Véronique Ramsay-Flück’s pub in the Eiger Guesthouse has pool, table football and darts.

The Stäger Stübli is where the locals hang out and is suitably atmospheric.