Restaurant Talvo
The Talvo restaurant is a gourmet restaurant in a historic building in Champfèr in the Upper Engadine in Switzerland, which was one of the premises of the Badrutt 's Palace once.
The Talvo, as it is called in short, enjoyed its first heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when the international jet St. Moritz discovered for himself and included figures such as Gunther Sachs, Brigitte Bardot and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, among the regular guests of the Talvo.
History
The large Engadine farmhouse on the Via Gunels in which the Talvo, (Romansh idiom in turkey: barn) is housed, was built in 1658. It is considered one of the oldest surviving Engadine houses in the region. From 1880 to 1887 the house was home to the School of Champfèr with seven students who were supervised by teachers Luzi Battaglia. Then the house was until 1949 owned by the local family Walther, why the house was also called Chesa Walther. A total of four generations of the Walther family lived in the farmhouse, all of whom lived by agriculture. The fourth and final generation of the Walther family began to rent rooms to tourists in the spacious house.
The biggest change in the history of the historic farmhouse came after the sale of the property in 1949 to Eduard Morger, a doctor from Rüschlikon Lake Zurich, the same also bought the Hotel Bristol, the granita Villa and Villa Nice. Eduard Morger left the Chesa Walther in 1954, converted to a restaurant Talvo, the restaurant tract in the former barn of the farmhouse, the Talvo, was housed and equipped the Talvo with paintings from his private art collection. After the conversion, ordered the property about 30 Beds.
The Talvo developed into a meeting place for après-ski company. In the following years the Talvo was repeatedly rebuilt and expanded. So the new terrace on the south side of the house was built in 1960. The following year, made modifications and extensions in the basement and the ground floor. In 1968 the largest structural change of the house since the redevelopment of the property 1954: an extension to the south side of the house to enlarge the restaurant tract.
At the beginning of the 1990s, the couple Roland and Brigitte Jöhri bought the Talvo and led the restaurant as Jöhri 's Talvo. They sold the Talvo 2011.
On 1 December 2011 took over Martin Dalsass and his wife Lorena as a tenant, the Talvo, which has since Talvo by Dalsass means and has been awarded 18 Gault Millau points and one star from the Michelin Guide.