restaurant review #400 – Well, it’s not only a restaurant, but also a vegan hotel! And a very fitting place for this 400th restaurant review! 🙂
Vegan hotel La Vimea is located in the north of Italy, in Naturno, South Tyrol.
We were here for 4 nights in June 2023 and it was absolutely fantastic! The room, the gastronomic dinners, the breakfast buffet, the swimming pool, the staff, the location.
Really relaxed atmosphere and great food!
Although it’s located in a residential neighbourhood, there’s a big private parking just next to the hotel, and there’s also a secure garage for storing your bicycles.
The 5-course dinner (included in overnight stay) was each time different and exquisite. And most of the times swift service.
Don’t expect any sausages or vegan bacon here. The focus is really on whole foods plantbased foods, also for breakfast. They also use a lot of homegrown vegetables and herbs from the veg garden at the side of the hotel!
Sildeshow dinners:
Breakfast is buffet style and includes cold and warm dishes, cereals, cakes, yoghurt, coffee, tea, etc.
Take a look at the breakfast buffet:
Photo slideshow from the breakfast:
It comes at a price (which is – all things considered – in line with other hotels of this level). There’s also a wellness area with sauna and you can book massages.
Check hotel website for prices – and do take into account that these include the breakfast and gastronomic 5-course dinner!
The following points are just being picky, but here are some details how it could be even better:
– no fridge in room, a pity
– the natural pond is beautiful, but I didn’t fancy swimming in it. Still standing water (no fountain or such, no circulation?) and the water colour didn’t invite swimming (ps: I’m used to swimming in natural ponds so really can tell the difference). We did go swimming in the inside pool.
– On the first night, we were shown our table for dinner on the outdoor terrace and told ‘and this is your table for your whole stay’. Well that was a bit disappointing, as it was on the ‘second row’, and we wanted to also enjoy the view at the garden at least once from the first row of the terrace. So we mentionned this, and later dinners we did get a table on the first row – always the same one. Why not just do it 1st come 1st choice? So we can get a different view every time? Especially for guests who stay multiple nights.
One does get to choose a table for breakfast.
– breakfast buffet is awesome, but I would have loved to see some (homemade?) vegan fermented cheezes (like camemberti, roqueforti etc).
– One can only book with the 5-course dinner included. So staying there 4 nights meant 4 times a 5-course dinner in a row, which was a bit much. Maybe give the option to book at least one night of the stay without the 5-course dinner.
PS: about accessibility: entrance and hotel/dining rooms/terrace is accessible. Accessible toilet on -1 level and garden and deck/pond can be reached via -1. There is also an accessible bath room on upper floor – opposite to a room for guests using a wheelchair.
More photos from La Vimea:
After our stay here, we travelled further south and went to their sister hotel Agrivilla I pini in Tuscany (review will follow).
We had an amazing time at La Vimea and would love to go back one day!
La VIMEA, location
Via August Kleeberg, 7,
39025 Naturno BZ,
Italy
website: https://www.lavimea.com/
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Wowww!! Looks fabulous. I’ve always wanted to go here. So happy you got to go!!
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