Gault&Millau offers travellers, holidaymakers and connoisseurs competent orientation and valuable inspiration with a whole family of useful guides. This family has now grown with the restaurant and hotel guide for South Tyrol. After a break, the Gault&Millau testers were once again travelling south of the Brenner Pass. "There was great anticipation among the whole team," say Martina and Karl Hohenlohe. And they were not disappointed, as South Tyrol's cuisine inspires with a clear commitment to the region and its products, with wine lists of incredible vintage depth and warm hospitality. The flair for design and ambience turns enjoyment into an overall experience. "The number of restaurants is growing and they are developing a charisma that makes South Tyrol a culinary hotspot," summarises the publishing couple.

Two restaurants receive five toques, a total of 21 restaurants are awarded four toques, and Gault&Millau also presents three special awards in South Tyrol:

"Chef of the Year 2025": Tina Marcelli - Artifex, Brenner: Sustainability, teamwork and tradition - these are the three pillars on which Tina Marcelli's creative cuisine is based. Her menus at Artifex in the Feuerstein Nature Family Resort are dramaturgically exciting and sensorially sophisticated, and she tells her own personal story with almost every one of her dishes. This also includes the ingredients she uses herself from the hotel's own treasure trove.

"Newcomer of the year 2025": David Senfter, Hebbo Wine & Deli, Toblach: What comes out of David Senfter's kitchen is modern, but at the same time characterised by the culinary DNA of the Dolomites. At almost 30 years old, the East Tyrolean-born chef has already worked with some of Austria's best chefs, such as Heinz Reitbauer, Silvio Nickol and Andreas Döllerer. "We will be hearing a lot more from this young chef," the Gault&Millau team is certain.

"Hotel of the Year 2025": Ottmanngut, Merano: Merano is famous for its gardens. The Hotel of the Year is nestled in one of the most beautiful, although the Ottmanngut is, by its own definition, an old Merano guesthouse in a central location. The Kirchlehner family has furnished the eleven rooms with antique furniture; you will look in vain for things like a television or a telephone on the bedside table. So you can fully immerse yourself in the place and the wonderful atmosphere and let your mind wander.