The CHESHIRE Magazine | Travel
The Wynegg Hotel and Restaurant
top picks #1 Commander helmet in satin black, £105, Protec, (surfdome.com)
#2 Feenom Nils snow goggles, £131, VonZipper, (vonzipper.com)
Après Ski and Eating Out Klosters doesn’t do table-top dancing to trashy Euro-pop, unsurprisingly. What it does do, is hot chocolate under fur blankets around open fires in the sort of low-key, wooden-beamed establishments you imagine when you romanticise ski resorts. If you’re looking for something a little more modern, the trendy Bear’s Bar, part of the chic Hotel Piz Buin, opened last year and provides easily the most contemporary place to sink a few Grappas. For fine dining, there’s the wood-panelled, Michelinstar Walserstube in the Walserhof hotel. The horse-drawn carriages that clang around Klosters are just one of the things that convince you that little has changed in the village since the visits of Newman and Peck. Kitsch in other ski resorts, the carriages are a natural fit in Klosters, where everything feels authentic rather than put on. The highlight of our visit was taking a carriage to Alp Garfiun, a modest mountain shack in Alpine wilderness that specialises in cheese fondue. The onehour ride from Klosters Platz repays you with scenery that Walt Disney would struggle to dream up. The family-run restaurant is so remote that it relies on horse-drawn carts to bring customers through vast fields of deep snow. Ensure that you inform the restaurant that you’re coming, so that they know who and how many to cater for. (baer-s.ch; walserhof.ch; alpgarfiun.ch)
#3 Horizone jacket, £459.99, Goldwin, (ellis-brigham.com)
#4 Hammer trousers, £122.50, Billabong, (billabong.com)
#5 Ghost FS 90 ski boots, £300, Salomon, (twoseasons.co.uk)
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