Local Cuisine Restaurants in Alpe d’Huez — 16 of Our Favourites

With the convivial spirit of a bistro, it serves comforting yet refined dishes in an elegant but relaxed setting. Signature creations highlight the richness of French terroir, crafted with a modern touch. For vegetarians, it offers top-notch vegetarian gnocchi and ravioli.

For a unique experience, guests can dine on the terrace, where private "bubbles" provide an intimate setting for a cosy dinner under the stars.

The name L'Espérance honours the hotel’s deep family roots, recalling the first café opened in 1902 by Joseph Colomb in the village of Huez. This legacy lives on in a space designed for gathering, sharing, and creating lasting memories.

Lots of Montagnarde favourites on the menu here with both the fondue and raclette getting rave reviews. They're family friendly too, with a children's menu on offer.

Open daily for lunch from 12:00 to 14:00 and then for dinner from 19:00 to midnight, summer and winter.

Down in the old town, La Cremaillere offers good fondues and is ideally located if you're staying around the tourist office. It’s a lovely timber-clad, typically alpine restaurant with a varied menu. Most of the fondues are served with meat, but there is also a nice range of veggie options including a vegetable tartiflette, herb-stuffed ravioli, vegetarian raclette and fondue, and a cracking green salad. It’s usually busy which is always a good sign.

Traditional French and Alpine food, salads and a terrace make this a beautiful spot for dinner. The downstairs dining area offers a cosy retreat and is perfect for a big group or couples.

Open every day from 19:00 to 01:00.

Cold meat and cheese platters, salads, raclette, pastas, burgers and other grilled meats complete the menu. There are also vegetarian specialities.

Open every day from 12:00 to 14:30 and from 19:00 to 21:30. Booking ahead is recommended.

Tucked away under the “lobster pot” lift, around 50 metres from the tourist office, this lovely little mountain-chalet style restaurant offers a couple of mouth-watering fondues. The Fondue Alpine de Savoie is a local dish with three kinds of cheese, whilst the Fondue Charcutiere comes with a selection of meats. 

The concept of this restaurant is to use simple, quality produce with a selection of meat and cheeses, mostly cooked on embers. Only the best meat cuts are served, and the options vary depending on what is available from the producers.

Try their old-fashioned raclette, cooked with charcoal appliances for a unique flavour. Or opt for their signature dishes, including: Burrata, Côte de Boeuf, and Tiramisu.

Wash down your meal with a bottle of one of their quality wines from the menu.

Booking is recommended.

Chives picked at the nearby gorges de Sarenne, wild cumin from the riverbeds, dandelion flowers from local pastures. You will enjoy dishes inspired by and made with the best local products from around Alpe d'Huez.

Their lunch menu includes a large cold starters buffet, sandwiches, pasta, grilled meat and fish. For dinner they serve a selection of gourmet starters including foie-gras and prawns, a range of traditional meat and fish mains, and to finish, cheese-boards and home-made desserts.

They also have well-priced lunch and dinner menus as well as children's menus.

Situated in the centre of the resort the restaurant is easily accessible on foot and is located on Avenue de Brandes.

Open all year round from 12:00 to 14:30 and from 19:00 to 21:30.

Located on the easier, gentler slopes the restaurant is easily accessible for all levels of skier.

In the evening you can enjoy a traditional dinner, where a snow mobile/cat mobile will transport you to and from the restaurant.

You can enjoy a traditional piste-side lunch of pizzas, salads soups and more, either inside or outside. The restaurant also offers evening events with a pickup service from your hotel and, at the end of the night, you can choose between a snow cat ride home or toboggan down the piste!

Open from 11:00 to 16:00 every day throughout the winter season

With wonderful views over the mountains and a south facing terrace that will protect you from the wind you can enjoy a meal outside on the terrace or inside the cosy Alpine restaurant. Specialities include beef with morels and gratin, risotto or brioche with caramel sauce.

Open daily from 10:00 to 16:00 for non-stop service and lunch.

In the evenings, open for dinner service 19:30 to 23:00, on reservation only basis. Enjoy local specialties by the open fire and at the end of the evening hop in a cat mobile and enjoy the ride home.

Open in winter from early December to late April between 12:00 and 16:00, although on Wednesdays they are open for the Sarenne by Night experience, where you ski down in the dark to the restaurant.

Call to book a table.

Typically alpine in appearance with a wonderful log-fire type ambience that is the perfect setting for a fondue. They are always incredibly busy, be it summer or winter. L’Edelweiss has an extensive menu with five different types of fondue on offer, from the Savoyarde up to the 'fondue aux morilles' with mushrooms, potatoes and dried meats.

Open in summer and winter, every day, from 12:00 to 13:30 and from 19:00 to 21:30.

On the large menu there is plenty of choice with something for everyone, including a few vegetarian options - try their pierrade, fondues, raclettes, gratins,grilled meats, salads, soups or order their set menu.

You'll appreciate the friendly and quick service. The team will give you a warm welcome and look after you throughout your meal.

Booking is advisable.

L'Alaska is located in the heart of Alpe d'Huez near to the tourist office. It has the feel of a larger restaurant.

You can enjoy a traditional mountain lunch here, either on the terrace outside or in the cosy indoors. It can also make for a great pit stop on a long day out on the mountain.

Skiers can access the restaurant from Les Bergers via the L'Alpe Auris. Open throughout the winter season from 08:30 to 17:00.

You can sit on the large south-facing terrace in sunny weather and enjoy fabulous views of the mountains. Specialities include fondue, raclette, home-made Murson rosace (a sausage from the Dauphiné region), Angus beef, foie-gras, and chicken with crayfish,.

The restaurant is only open during the winter ski season, please book a table to avoid disappointment. Lunch served from 12:15 to 13:30. Evening meals are served from 19:30 to 21:00; you are welcome to relax with a drink in the bar before or after your dinner. The restaurant is closed in the summer, except on reservation for groups from 10 people.