Restaurant in Pergine Valsugana, Italy
Creative Alpine tasting menus, low booking friction.
Innesti is a Michelin Plate-recognised creative kitchen in Pergine Valsugana, run by the couple behind Blumenstube, now cooking contemporary-Alpine food across three tasting menus at the €€ price tier. With a 4.8 Google rating from 169 reviews and back-to-back Michelin recognition in 2024 and 2025, it delivers genuine creative ambition at an accessible price point. Book a week ahead for midweek; two to three weeks for summer weekends.
Innesti operates on three tasting menus (short, medium, and long), and while dishes from each can be ordered à la carte style, the kitchen's creative logic works leading when you commit to a full run of plates. At the €€ price point, this is one of the more accessible entry points into contemporary-Alpine cooking in Trentino, and the 2024 and 2025 Michelin Plates confirm that the cooking is being taken seriously by people who eat widely. If you've been once and ordered only two or three dishes, you've seen the window dressing. Come back for the longer menu.
Daniele and Elisa moved on from Blumenstube in Sant'Orsola to open Innesti in Pergine Valsugana, and the shift from that alpine environment to this one is visible in both the room and the plate. The décor is contemporary without being cold — the kind of space where the design choices feel considered rather than decorative. The cuisine reads the same way: a creative interpretation of Alpine ingredients, with a chef's approach that leans playful over reverential. What arrives on the table is not heritage cooking preserved under glass. It is a kitchen working actively with its regional context, testing combinations, finding edges.
For a returning guest, the question is less whether to go back and more which menu length to commit to. The short menu will feel familiar if you've already been. The medium is where the kitchen's range becomes clearer. The long menu, assuming your evening allows it, is where you'll find the dishes that take more time to understand , the ones that don't resolve immediately on the first bite. That playful, inventive streak that the Michelin inspectors noted is most legible across a longer sequence.
Booking is direct. Innesti does not carry the reservation difficulty of a destination restaurant with a six-month waitlist. A week's notice should be sufficient for most midweek slots, though weekends in peak season (late spring through early autumn, when Trentino draws visitors for the mountains and lakes) will require more lead time. If you are planning around a specific date , a birthday, an anniversary , two to three weeks ahead is sensible. The address is Via S. Pietro, 8, in the centre of Pergine Valsugana, accessible by car from Trento in under half an hour.
The question of group dining at Innesti is worth addressing directly. The restaurant does not have a listed private dining room in the venue data, and the contemporary-Alpine style of the space , intimate, considered , suggests a room that reads better for two to four covers than for larger parties. If you are planning for six or more, contacting the restaurant ahead of time to discuss seating configuration is advisable. For a couple or a small group of four, the tasting menu format works well as a shared experience: everyone progresses through the same sequence, which makes the evening more coherent than a table where people are ordering independently across different price points.
For a special occasion, the €€ positioning is an argument in Innesti's favour. You get a Michelin-recognised kitchen, a tasting menu structure, and a room with evident care in its design at a price tier that does not require a full cost-benefit calculation before you book. The cooking is inventive enough to carry the occasion without the formality of a higher-priced room working against the mood. Anniversary dinners, milestone birthdays for guests who value food, or a dinner to mark the end of a hiking week in Trentino: all are appropriate fits.
On the question of dietary restrictions, the tasting menu format at this level generally accommodates adjustments when notified ahead of time , but this venue has no listed contact details in our data. Reaching out via the restaurant's reservation channel (check current booking platforms for Innesti Pergine Valsugana) before your visit, and specifying requirements clearly at the time of booking, is the practical approach. Do not assume adjustments will be made without prior communication.
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Booking difficulty is low relative to Trentino's better-known destination restaurants. Search current reservation platforms for Innesti at Via S. Pietro, 8, Pergine Valsugana, TN. Midweek slots are generally available with a week's notice. Weekend bookings during the spring and summer season warrant two to three weeks of lead time. If your visit includes dietary requirements or a group of more than four, flag both when you book.
Innesti runs three tasting menus , short, medium, and long , with dishes available à la carte from each. The cooking is contemporary-Alpine: creative, ingredient-led, and more inventive than a traditional trattoria. At €€, it is an accessible entry point for this style of cooking in Trentino. The restaurant holds a Michelin Plate for both 2024 and 2025, which is a reliable signal that the kitchen is executing at a consistent level. Book at least a week ahead, more in summer. First-timers who want to understand the kitchen's range should opt for the medium or long menu rather than grazing from the short list.
The tasting menu format means the kitchen is already building dishes to a set sequence, and creative kitchens at this level generally accommodate dietary requirements when given notice. However, Innesti has no listed phone or website in our current data, so you will need to communicate restrictions through whatever booking platform you use. Do this at the time of reservation, not on arrival. If you have complex or multiple restrictions, confirming a day or two before your visit is sensible.
Yes, and the price tier is a meaningful part of the answer. You are getting a Michelin Plate kitchen, a considered room, and a tasting menu structure at €€ , a combination that delivers occasion-appropriate dining without the cost pressure of a €€€€ room. The format (progressing through a sequence of courses together) suits celebratory dinners better than a shared-plates free-for-all. For a couple marking an anniversary or a birthday dinner for someone who cares about food, this is a well-suited booking. Larger groups should contact ahead to confirm the room can accommodate them comfortably.
The contemporary-Alpine room design at Innesti reads as intimate rather than expansive, which suits parties of two to four more naturally than large groups. There is no listed private dining room in our data. If you are booking for six or more, contact the restaurant before committing to confirm whether the space and tasting menu format can be configured for your group size. For groups of four or fewer, the tasting menu structure works well as a shared experience.
At the €€ price point, yes. The kitchen's creative approach , described by Michelin as playful and inventive with contemporary ingredients , is better expressed across a full menu sequence than in one or two individual dishes. If you order à la carte from the short menu, you will get a representative sample but miss the pacing and arc that the longer formats deliver. The medium menu is probably the right call for a first or second visit: enough plates to understand the chef's instincts without committing to the full long-menu duration.
At €€, the value calculation is direct: you are paying a modest price for a Michelin-recognised creative kitchen in a considered room in a town that does not carry the premium of Trento or Bolzano. Comparable creative cooking with Alpine roots at the €€€€ tier , think Atelier Moessmer Norbert Niederkofler in Brunico , will deliver greater technical depth and a more elaborate service experience, but at several times the cost. For what Innesti charges, the answer is yes.
| Venue | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Innesti | €€ | — |
| Atelier Moessmer Norbert Niederkofler | €€€€ | — |
| Dal Pescatore | €€€€ | — |
| Osteria Francescana | €€€€ | — |
| Quattro Passi | €€€€ | — |
| Reale | €€€€ | — |
A quick look at how Innesti measures up.
Innesti runs on three tasting menus (short, medium, and long), but you can also pick dishes à la carte from within those menus — which gives you more flexibility than most tasting-menu-only restaurants. The style is contemporary-Alpine, creative, and grounded in the Trentino region. At the €€ price range, it holds a Michelin Plate (2024, 2025), which signals consistent quality without Michelin-star pricing. Book ahead; the tasting menu seats fill early in the week.
The menu structure — three tasting menus with à la carte flexibility — gives the kitchen room to adapt, which is more accommodating than a rigid fixed menu. Contact Innesti directly at Via S. Pietro, 8, Pergine Valsugana before your visit to confirm specific dietary needs; specific accommodation policies are not publicly confirmed.
Yes, but with the right expectations. The €€ price point and Michelin Plate recognition make it a solid choice for a birthday or anniversary dinner in Trentino without the financial weight of a starred restaurant. The contemporary-Alpine setting and creative tasting menus provide enough occasion-worthy structure. If you want something more ceremonial, Atelier Moessmer Norbert Niederkofler operates at a higher tier.
The tasting menu format works reasonably well for small groups, particularly because dishes can be selected à la carte from the menus, reducing the all-or-nothing friction of a shared fixed menu. For larger parties, check the venue's official channels at Via S. Pietro, 8, Pergine Valsugana to confirm capacity and booking arrangements, as seating details are not publicly listed.
At the €€ price range, yes — the format offers genuine creative cooking with Michelin Plate recognition two years running, and the à la carte flexibility within the menus means you are not locked into a rigid sequence. The short menu is the practical entry point for first visits or lighter appetites. For full creative range, the long menu is the better call.
At €€, Innesti delivers Michelin-recognised contemporary-Alpine cooking at a price point well below comparable destination restaurants in northern Italy. Osteria Francescana and Dal Pescatore operate at multiples of this price with higher formal expectations. Innesti's value case is strong for what it is: a young team cooking creatively in Trentino, with low booking friction and honest pricing.
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