Da Adriano

Should You Book Da Adriano?

If you have already eaten at Da Adriano once, the question for a return visit is not whether the Italian cooking holds up; two consecutive Michelin Plate recognitions (2024 and 2025) suggest it does; but whether the experience deepens on a second sitting. The answer is yes, particularly if you time your visit to match the season. Da Adriano is not a venue where a single meal exhausts the menu. It is a venue where the point of return is the point of the exercise.

The Portrait

Da Adriano sits at Via Mezdi 27 in St. Moritz, positioned in a town where Italian restaurants range from the hotel-polished formality of Da Vittorio - St. Moritz to the more relaxed register of Krone. For a resort town that runs on short-stay visitors who rarely return the same evening, that consistency suggests a kitchen and front-of-house that are performing at a repeatable level, not coasting on scenery and altitude.

The atmosphere at Da Adriano reads warm rather than hushed. This is not the white-tablecloth silence of a three-star Swiss dining room, if you want that register, Ecco St. Moritz or Le Restaurant / Le Relais deliver it more deliberately. Da Adriano is conversational: the ambient energy allows you to hear the table beside you, a full room carries a moderate hum. For a solo diner or a couple who want to talk through a meal without raising their voices, this is a workable noise level. For a group expecting a lively dinner, it suits. It does not suit guests seeking the controlled quiet of a tasting-menu-format room.

The €€€€ price tier places it at the top of St. Moritz's pricing band, which is a high bar in a resort where CHF 50 pasta exists alongside CHF 400 tasting menus. At this tier, you are paying for Italian cooking with a Michelin-acknowledged standard of execution, in a town where the cost of doing business is reflected on every menu. The relevant comparison is not whether Da Adriano is expensive, it is, but whether it is expensive relative to its peers at the same price point. Against Da Vittorio - St. Moritz, which carries a Michelin Star and focuses on Italian seafood, Da Adriano likely represents a lower per-head spend for comparable Italian quality. Against Krone

Seasonal Timing: When to Go

St. Moritz operates on two distinct seasons, winter (December through March) and summer (July through August), with shoulder periods that are genuinely quiet. The kitchen at Da Adriano, like any Italian operation in an Alpine resort town, will feel the pull of both. Italian cooking in the Alps tends to track seasonal produce shifts: winter menus lean into richer preparations suited to the cold, while summer cooking in the Engadin region draws on local dairy, herbs, lighter preparations suited to the altitude and the warmth. A return visitor who ate at Da Adriano in January and returns in July will likely find a meaningfully different menu emphasis, even if the culinary framework is stable. This is the practical case for the return visit, it is more grounded than novelty alone. If you are planning a trip specifically around dining, winter is the higher-energy season for St. Moritz overall, but summer offers a less crowded room and, typically, produce-driven menus that reward the visit on different terms. For an explorer travelling for food depth rather than resort atmosphere, the summer window is worth considering.

For context on where Da Adriano sits within Switzerland's broader Italian fine-dining picture: the Michelin Plate is a recognition of quality cooking below star level, consistent with venues like Maison Wenger in Le Noirmont in terms of tier positioning, well below the three-star Swiss benchmark set by Hotel de Ville Crissier in Crissier or Schloss Schauenstein in Fürstenau. That framing matters for expectation-setting: Da Adriano is not a destination restaurant in the sense of warranting a special trip to St. Moritz on its own. It is, however, the kind of reliable, well-executed Italian that rewards you for being in St. Moritz, whichever season you arrive. For Italian at the same level outside Switzerland, 8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana in Hong Kong or cenci in Kyoto show what the format can do when Italian cooking travels with serious intent, Da Adriano is operating in that same spirit, at resort scale.

Practical Details

Reservations: Booking difficulty is rated Easy, reservations are recommended, especially during the winter and summer peaks, but this is not a venue where you need to plan weeks in advance under normal circumstances. Address: Via Mezdi 27, 7500 St. Moritz, Switzerland. Budget: €€€€, expect top-tier St. Moritz pricing. Awards: Michelin Plate 2024 and 2025. Rating:Dress: No formal dress code is listed, but the €€€€ tier and Michelin recognition suggest smart casual at a minimum; St. Moritz resort standards generally lean dressed-up rather than casual. Cuisine: Italian.

For the full picture of where to eat, drink, stay around Da Adriano, see our full St. Moritz restaurants guide, St. Moritz hotels guide, St. Moritz bars guide, St. Moritz wineries guide, and St. Moritz experiences guide.