Restaurant in Sarentino, Italy
Michelin-recognized modern cooking at €€ value.
Braunwirt holds a 2025 Michelin Plate in central Sarentino, delivering modern cuisine with a contemporary twist at the €€ price tier. The standout feature is a menu structure that lets you build your own tasting progression from the à la carte alongside a daily-changing market specials section. Friendly service and an accessible room make it the right call for a special occasion dinner in the valley.
Braunwirt earns its 2025 Michelin Plate in a town where serious cooking is easy to overlook. At the €€ price point, this is one of the more considered modern kitchens in the Sarentino valley, and the flexibility to build your own tasting progression from the à la carte makes it unusually well-suited to special occasions where one person wants to go deep and another wants to keep things light. Book it for a celebration dinner when you want something with real culinary intent but without the formality or price tag of a full tasting-menu commitment.
The daily specials menu at Braunwirt changes according to market availability, which means the most interesting things to eat on any given visit are, by design, time-limited. That scarcity is worth taking seriously when you plan your booking: if you are travelling to Sarentino with a specific date in mind, aim to reserve a table rather than walk in and hope the day's market-driven dishes are still on offer by the time you arrive. The kitchen's approach to fresh supply creates a natural urgency around timing.
What makes Braunwirt genuinely useful for a special occasion is the architecture of how you can eat here. Rather than locking you into a fixed tasting menu, the kitchen lets you sequence your own progression from the à la carte — choosing a coherent run of dishes that builds in the way a tasting menu does, but on your own terms. For two diners with different appetites or different dietary directions, that flexibility is a practical advantage, not just a philosophical one. The Michelin inspector's note on the turbot fillet with coconut curry, chickpeas and cabbage is the one verified sensory reference available, and it points to a kitchen comfortable moving between Alpine and broader Mediterranean and Asian-inflected references within the same menu.
The clientele Michelin describes as cosmopolitan is a useful signal for what the room feels like: this is not a locals-only tavern frozen in regional tradition, nor is it an aspirational fine-dining exercise disconnected from the town. It sits between those two poles, which at the €€ price tier in a Michelin-recognised context is a genuinely attractive position. Friendly service reported by the inspector reinforces that the experience is accessible rather than stiff, which matters if you are bringing someone for a birthday or an anniversary and need the room to feel warm rather than performative.
Sarentino itself is a small town in South Tyrol, and the address — Piazza della Chiesa, 3 , places Braunwirt at the heart of it. If you are combining dinner here with broader exploration of the valley's food scene, Ristorante Alpes & La FuGa and Terra The Magic Place are the other options worth knowing in the area. For a fuller picture of what is worth your time in the valley, see our full Sarentino restaurants guide, as well as our guides to hotels, bars, wineries, and experiences in Sarentino.
Booking difficulty here is easy by current standards. You are not competing with the reservation algorithms that govern tables at Osteria Francescana in Modena or Atelier Moessmer Norbert Niederkofler in Brunico. That said, Sarentino is a destination valley and summer and autumn weekends fill faster than the shoulder season. A week's notice is typically sufficient for midweek; aim for two weeks if your date is a Saturday in peak season.
For the money, Braunwirt over-delivers on culinary ambition relative to its price tier. The Michelin Plate recognition confirms a kitchen operating above the level you would ordinarily expect at €€ in a small South Tyrolean town. If your frame of reference for the region is the grand-tasting-menu operations further afield , Uliassi in Senigallia, Piazza Duomo in Alba, or Le Calandre in Rubano , Braunwirt is a different register entirely, and should be evaluated on its own terms: a mid-price modern kitchen in a small alpine town, recognised by Michelin, with a menu structure that rewards those who engage with it rather than simply order off the leading.
Booking is easy. Phone and website details are not listed in the current database, so the most reliable approach is to contact the restaurant directly through search or local concierge. For special occasions, specify the occasion at the time of booking , the service style reported by Michelin inspectors suggests the team is attentive enough to respond to that kind of advance communication.
| Venue | Cuisine | Price | Awards | Booking Difficulty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braunwirt | Modern Cuisine | €€ | Michelin Plate (2025); A modern and welcoming restaurant in the heart of the town, where the menu features a selection of meat and fish dishes with a contemporary twist. There’s also a separate menu of simpler daily specials which changes depending on what’s available in the market that day, while food-lovers will enjoy creating their own tasting menu by choosing dishes from the à la carte. Our inspector particularly enjoyed the turbot fillet with coconut curry, chickpeas and cabbage. Friendly service and a cosmopolitan clientele. | Easy | — |
| Atelier Moessmer Norbert Niederkofler | Italian, Creative | €€€€ | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
| Dal Pescatore | Italian, Italian Contemporary | €€€€ | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
| Osteria Francescana | Progressive Italian, Creative | €€€€ | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
| Quattro Passi | Italian, Mediterranean Cuisine | €€€€ | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
| Reale | Progressive Italian, Modern Cuisine | €€€€ | Michelin 3 Star, World's 50 Best | Unknown | — |
Key differences to consider before you reserve.
The menu covers both meat and fish dishes with a contemporary approach, and a daily specials menu built around market availability gives the kitchen flexibility. That market-driven format works in your favour if you have dietary needs — check the venue's official channels before your visit to confirm what can be accommodated on the day.
No bar dining is documented for Braunwirt. The restaurant is described as a welcoming room in the heart of Sarentino, so your best bet is to reserve a table. Contact them directly via the address at Piazza della Chiesa, 3 to ask about seating options.
Braunwirt holds a 2025 Michelin Plate, which signals consistent cooking worth seeking out rather than a destination tasting-menu operation. The format is flexible: you can build your own tasting menu from the à la carte or order from simpler daily specials. First-timers who want to see what the kitchen can do should go the à la carte route and compose their own progression.
Braunwirt does not run a fixed tasting menu — the format lets you build your own by choosing dishes from the à la carte, which is actually more useful at the €€ price point. That approach lets you spend where the kitchen is strongest without being locked into a set progression. The Michelin inspector singled out the turbot fillet with coconut curry, chickpeas and cabbage as a highlight.
At €€, yes. A 2025 Michelin Plate at this price range is good value by any standard in northern Italy. You get Michelin-recognized modern cooking plus a market-driven daily specials menu, without the premium pricing of the Alto Adige's starred rooms. For the category, it overdelivers.
Sarentino is a small town, so serious dining alternatives within the valley are limited. If you're willing to drive into the wider Alto Adige or South Tyrol region, the options at higher price points expand considerably. Braunwirt is the most credentialed option in Sarentino itself given its 2025 Michelin Plate recognition.
It works for a low-key celebration. The Michelin Plate signals reliable quality, the service is described as friendly, and the €€ pricing keeps the bill manageable. It is not a formal high-end special-occasion room — if you need that level of staging, you would need to leave Sarentino — but for a relaxed dinner that feels considered and deliberate, it fits.
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