Restaurants in Vaduz, with and without a star

Vaduz has just over 6,000 residents and three restaurants in the MICHELIN Guide. It’s an odd ratio, and it tells me the capital eats out well on weekdays, when business visitors fill the tables. That’s the catch too. Many of the good places shut on Sundays, and several of the simpler ones close all weekend. This guide is about where to eat, and above all when.

The Torkel, a star among the vines

Liechtenstein’s only Michelin-starred restaurant is in Vaduz, at Hintergass 9, inside the Herawingert vineyard, which the princely family have owned since 1712. The building is the medieval press house where the Prince’s grapes were crushed, and the dining room is dominated by a press beam that the winery describes as one of the largest in Europe. It was turned into a restaurant in the 1960s, and in 2021 an architecture competition chose Bruno Huber’s studio to modernise it without losing its character. The MICHELIN Guide singles out the conservatory, whose walls open up so it feels like a terrace among the vines, looking over the Rhine valley.

According to its website it reached 16 Gault Millau points and won its star in 2017. Published dishes on the evening menu run from CHF 38 to 47. It opens Tuesday to Friday 11:30 to 15:00 and 18:30 to 23:00, and Saturday evenings only; the kitchen takes orders 12:00 to 13:30 and 18:30 to 20:30. It’s closed on Mondays, Sundays and public holidays. If you’re in town in early October 2026, on the 1st and 2nd it holds its «Rest’l Essen», a freestyle 8 to 10-course menu of whatever’s left before the holidays, for CHF 120. The winery next door is covered in the Prince’s winery in Vaduz.

Marée and Chapter Two, the two listed

The Marée is the restaurant of the Park Hotel Sonnenhof, on the hillside above town, with 16 Gault Millau points and a place in the MICHELIN Guide. The guide praises the view and house classics such as spicy steak tartare or slow-cooked skate with capers and brown butter. There’s a lunch menu, à la carte and an evening menu, the dress code is smart casual, and pets aren’t allowed inside, though they’re welcome on the terrace. The big advantage is that it opens all week.

Chapter Two is at the Hotel Residence, Städtle 23, and the MICHELIN Guide flags it as a new entry. It’s run by Martin Weber, who spent nine years as head chef at the two-star Incantare in Heiden. According to the guide, you choose between a four- or five-course menu and à la carte, with contemporary cooking free of frills. The hotel says it opens seven days a week.

Where can you eat cheaply in Vaduz?

Cheap is relative when you’re paying in francs, but there are simple, good places. The Adler group runs four in the centre. The Restaurant Adler at Herrengasse 2 is a 1908 house in its fourth generation, serving regional Alpine food Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:30. Next door is the Vanini café-bar. At Städtle 15, the Brasserie Burg does stone-oven pizza, pasta and burgers on weekdays, and the Ristorante Cesare serves Italian food at weekday lunchtimes only. All three post a daily menu as a PDF.

The fourth is my favourite fallback, the café in the Kunstmuseum at Städtle 32. Since 2000 it has served Japanese food, sushi, soups and salads, and it opens every day, until 21:00 Wednesday to Friday and 18:00 otherwise. If you’re visiting the museum you needn’t leave; it’s covered in Kunstmuseum in Vaduz.

Löwen, Altenbach and New Castle, three more in the centre

The restaurant at the Hotel-Gasthof Löwen, Herrengasse 35, cooks in a house more than 600 years old and opens Monday to Friday, 12:00 to 14:00 and from 18:00; it asks you to book by phone. The Altenbach, at Städtle 3, goes for a mix, traditional, Italian, American or Asian depending on the day, with a cocktail bar alongside. And the New Castle, at Aeulestrasse 22, is the no-nonsense option in the centre, with home-style cooking, a terrace facing the castle and long hours, Monday to Saturday 08:00 to 23:00. Everything on its menu can be ordered to take away with an hour’s notice. Wherever you sit down, tipping in Liechtenstein is optional, and I set out how much I’d leave.

What if I’m in Vaduz on a Sunday?

Book. The Torkel, Adler, Cesare and the Löwen’s restaurant all close that day, and so does the Burg, according to its own page. That leaves the Marée, Chapter Two and the Kunstmuseum café. If you’d rather head for the hills, the Berggasthaus Masescha opens on Sundays until 16:00, as covered in where to eat in Liechtenstein. And for a drink after dinner, the bars in the centre are in my guide to bars in Vaduz.