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On-piste / Mountain Restaurants in Val Thorens — 4 of Our Favourites

Find your perfect Val Thorens restaurant, shortlisted by our local experts

There's a wide range of restaurants in Val Thorens to suit all tastes and budgets.

Find loads of top tips and local insights in our Val Thorens Where to Eat Guide.

Tango Restaurant, Val Thorens restaurant

1. Tango Restaurant

Location
Val Thorens

Welcome to Tango Restaurant. This is an amazing place to enjoy a dinner with the little extra. The fun and busy French and Swedish style cuisine restaurant will definitely satisfy the most peckish. Part of the Langley run 3 star Hotel Tango in the centre of Val Thorens, Tango is open for breakfast with a generous buffet, lunch offering pizzas, burgers ad salads and dinner with a more sophisticated a la carte menu every day throughout the season.

The bar at Tango is an ideal place to stop off and listen to the live music, sip on a vin chaud, a fancy cocktail, or a good glass of wine after a day on the mountain. Get cosy in front of the fireplace and face the beautiful view from the lounge.

All week long they play live music and every night they have a DJ setting the mood. Tango offers you a relaxed and warm environment with friendly Scandinavian staff.

The restaurant can be accessed by skiers from the slopes or by a short walk from the town centre to Rue de la Boucle. 

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2. Le Chaudron Magique

Location
Val Thorens

Serving Savoyard specialities, pizzas and traditional dishes in a typical mountain setting, this restaurant also doubles as a cosy après-ski lounge bar, open from 17:00 every day. Just as easily accessible on ski on the side of the piste or foot from the village, why not stop in on your way off the mountain for a drink.

The restaurant serves Savoyard dishes of raclette, fondue, pierrades, tartiflette, as well as grilled meats, and pizzas and pastas. Pizzas are also available to take away. A children’s menu is also available.

Chalet de la Marine Restaurant, Val Thorens restaurant terrasse

3. Chalet de la Marine Restaurant

Location
Val Thorens

This restaurant in Val Thorens is located at the top of the Cascades chairlift on the Dailles piste. In a great location with an excellent terrace and wonderful views you can enjoy a lunch time meal in the sunshine.

The traditional restaurant with log fires and wooden beams serves traditional Savoyard cuisine and gourmet French cuisine with a dessert buffet! Downstairs, there is a self-service bistro where you can get pizzas, sandwiches, soups, pastas and local specialities.

In the evening, you can access the restaurant on a snow mobile or hike up and enjoy a traditional mountain menu of Savoyard delights, caviar or oysters in the warm and cosy restaurant or inside a Mongolian yurt. At the end of your meal, you can pop your skis back on and make your way down the mountain with a torch-lit descent.

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La Folie Douce, Val Thorens exterior

4. La Folie Douce Bar

Location
Val Thorens

This renowned après-ski venue styles itself as 'the dance floor at the top of the world'. They can't be far wrong when they are situated at a height of 2600m.

This is where the majority of skiers and boarders will head at the end of a great day on the mountains to party. It is easy to access being based right on the piste just under the Plein Sud chairlift. They have live music daily from 14:00 to 17:30.

They have planned everything to ensure that you enjoy the bar as much as they do, providing comfortable outdoor sofas with huge pillows, blankets and duvets in case the temperature drops.

Don't worry, whatever the weather the beer will keep flowing, the outside bar has specially heated-column pumps to stop the beer from freezing in sub-zero temperatures!

As the Folie Douce is based on the eastern slopes it gets the best of the evening sun so you can continue to soak up the rays on their large terrace. Its location also makes it a popular lunch spot and there is the choice of either the great value self-service La Petite Cuisine restaurant and the more fine dining experience of La Fruitiere.

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About choosing a restaurant in Val Thorens

There's a wide range of restaurants in Val Thorens to suit all tastes and budgets. Read our guide on all the best places to eat and where to find your favourite style of cuisine.

Worth noting is that at lunchtime, most restaurants will offer a well-priced 'Plat du Jour' (dish of the day), normally consisting of locally sourced meat, potatoes and a salad or seasonal vegetables. Most, if not all of the restaurants in resort are child friendly, especially if you let them know in advance. Evening meals are normally served from 19:00, and the restaurants are quieter at this time than later on.