Fink Restaurant & Suites

Style

Pure and simple

Setting

Brixen old town

In a past life (dating back to 1039), Fink Restaurant & Suites, in Brixen’s old town, served as a monastery, so it’s no stranger to people singing praises. It has been a post office, coppersmiths, coffee shop, inn and butchers since then – with the latter proprietor’s family still at the helm – but we’re warming up our vocals again to belt out its graces: a modishly monk-ish pared-back look, restored original features, inventive Alpine cuisine, and a spa sanctuary. And, not content with the hotel’s Lazarus-like restoration, its miracle-worker owners are now devoted to running the place in eco-friendly style, too.

Facilities

客房

Nine suites.

Checkout

11am, but flexible, subject to availability and a charge. Earliest check-in, 2pm.

Also

Unfortunately, due to the hotel’s historic layout the hotel isn’t accessible.

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游泳池

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水疗中心

At the Hotel

Spa with a sauna, steam room and Roman bath; and free WiFi. In rooms: TV, minibar, air-conditioning, and organic herbal bath products.

Our Favourite Rooms

It takes skill to ensure the monk’s cell look is more sophisticated than spartan, and Fink have nailed it. Simple Scandi-esque furnishings, wood flooring and white walls, and vow-of-silence hues are given wings with the original wood doors and architectural intrigues – and some original frescoes in the larger Arcus Suites.

Poolside

There’s no swimmable pool onsite, but guests get three hours of free access a day at the Acquarena pool complex (around a 10-minute walk away).

Spa

At Fink’s spa, benedictions come in the form of fragrant herbal steams, healing hot-cold soaks in a Roman bath under a skylight, and sauna soothing. The spa lies behind an old wooden door, and spreads out across the tranquil, leafy inner courtyard and stone vaults.

Packing Tips

Holster your hymnals, but do bring books for peaceful time-outs, a swimsuit for spa soaking and an adventurous spirit, both for heading out into the wilds and trying the restaurant’s more unique dishes.

Also

The hotel has a huge digital library guests can access, with thousands of books, newspapers and magazines.

儿童

While children over 12 can stay, the hotel’s pared-back beauty may be lost on them, and there are no distractions or facilities for little ones at Fink.

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Food & Drink

Top Table

In the atmospheric vaulted dining room, all tables are equal.

着装要求

The habit of a habitué.

Hotel Restaurant

What did 15th-century South Tyrolean monks eat, you might wonder? Well, let Fink’s chef Florien Fink enlighten you with a menu that religiously follows traditional techniques and presentations, worshipping locally grown vegetables, fruits and herbs. Fink uses the whole of any ingredient (from reliable, local sources such as Kapuzinergarten park, monasteries and organic farms) to cut down on waste, and creates dishes defined by their elegant simplicity: tomato cream soup swirled with pesto made using catchfly plants and dotted with Alpine blossoms; ravioli stuffed with chard, nettle, wild spinach and mountain cheese; carrot cooked in almond cream with polenta; and, for dessert, spelt pancakes with dandelion syrup, or fermented pine cone with mint sorbet. (There’s schnitzel and goulash too, for good measure.) Take a leap of faith – you’ll soon be a believer. And breakfast (buckwheat pancakes in lentil cream, eggs with speck, tomato with hay-milk mozzarella and nettle, amaranth with fruit and dandelion syrup) is served in the Arcade restaurant and out under the arcade facing the street too.

Hotel Bar

There's no bar onsite, but in the restaurant, you can sample regional beers, wines, sekts and spumantes.

Last Orders

Breakfast is served from 7.30am until 10am, and Fink restaurant opens from noon to 9pm Tuesday to Saturday (closed on Mondays and Sundays).

Planes

The closest airport is Bolzano, around a 40-minute drive away, which has a limited number of direct routes through central and southern Europe. Innsbruck is a 90-minute drive, but is better connected; or you could touch down at Verona (two hours away by car) or Munich (just over three hours away). Transfers can be arranged for up to six guests (prices vary).

Trains

Brixen/Bressanone train station is a 10-minute walk away, which has direct links to Bolzano, Innsbruck, Verona, and beyond.

Automobiles

The hotel’s location in the old town is fully pedestrianised (we’re not sure you could squeeze a car through its street), but they can arrange parking in their private garage at 10 Kreuzgasse, a 200-metre walk away for €15 a day. You may need one for navigating the mountain passes.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

Winter stays at Fink Restaurant & Suites come with skiing and snowboarding at Plose resort, which has 41 kilometres of piste trails, plus a toboggan run and Funpark for freestylers. The cable-car station is about 10 minutes outside town (the hotel will give you a pass to ride it for free). But, you should also carve some time out of your trip to explore Brixen (its German name) or Bressanone (in Italian). The area surrounding the hotel, the old town, is especially charming for its brightly coloured townhouses, arcades lined with shops and cafés, and whimsical frescoes (don’t judge the artists of old for trying to paint an elephant when they hadn’t really seen one…). And Fink wasn’t the only place of religious significance – the Baroque cathedral with its Murano-glass chandeliers, the colourfully Romanesque Chiostro di Bressanone cloisters, the Bishop’s Palace with its botanical garden, and the suitably pallid Gothic White Tower made this quite the pious place. The hotel can help with (charged) bike hire for pootling about (parts of the city are car-free) and wheeling alongside the Isarco River. If you prefer your pedalling with more grit and gradient, there are mountain-biking trails into the foothills, too. The Diocesan Museum has bygone artworks, the Pharmacy Museum has some intriguing vintage tableaux, and each year in May, the city is magically illuminated for the Waterlight Festival.

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Fink Restaurant & Suites

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