christian krabichler sits down with
anJa and hans -Jörg zingg
“El paradiso” serves everything, from sausages to a Burgundy that is sought after the world over – because, after all, paradise is for everyone. The Zingg family has been serving up a piece of heaven in one of the prettiest mountain huts in St. Moritz for 17 years.
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f you want to go to paradise, you can actually find it down here on earth because it is at 2,181 metres, completely surrounded by snow, and not far from the valley station of the Randolins four-seater chair lift. When people see it for the first time, they usually take off their goggles and rub their eyes: there is a tiny bridge, a reception desk, wicker beach chairs, charmingly decorated terraces with views of snow-covered forests and sparkling ski slopes running down to the valley and back to the Piz Corvatsch. What Anja and Hans-Jörg Zingg
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have created up here on the Corviglia is their vision of the “top of the mountains”. “If you say St. Moritz, then it has to be St. Moritz,” says Hans-Jörg Zingg. “But that’s not to say that everything has to be about luxury. Merely that even ‘just’ a pizza in St. Moritz simply has to be the best available.” And offering the best is what motivates the restaurateur and his wife Anja. Having said that, the “best” up here on the mountain is relative: the skiing enthusiast wants somewhere to restore energy levels and get back onto the runs as quickly as possible,
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