Good Food

Happily, many of our hotels naturally take pride in providing healthy food. HTS works closely with all its hotels to ensure that students receive a good standard of healthy, nutritious food. A number of our hotels actually own their own smallholdings or farms, and provide students with home-produced meat and dairy produce. Many provide a daily salad buffet or serve salad to accompany the meal. Some also provide a daily health or vitamin drink or fruit. We have also encouraged more and more hotels to supply a good portion of vegetables, and many bake their own puddings and cakes.
 
One of the main problems is, as you will be only too well aware, getting the students to eat the right things and to this end we provide a buffet breakfast with choice in every hotel (there are several exceptions where, because of lack of space, an extended breakfast is served at the table).

BUFFET BREAKFAST
- Bread, jam, butter/spread
- Cheese, ham and/or cold meats
- Cereal
- Milk, coffee, tea, chocolate or cocoa

Entirely at the discretion of the hotel proprietor, many hotels also offer some of the following: honey, nutella, choice of cereals including muesli, fruit juice or squash, yoghurt.

LUNCH
Hot Lunch
Wherever and whenever possible we include a single-course hot lunch. Naturally, in many larger resorts this is neither practicable nor desirable as the ski areas are too large. In this case we provide a:

Packed Lunch comprising:
- 2 sandwiches or rolls or (mainly in  Switzerland) 1 large baguette filled with  cheese or ham or cold meat
- 1 drink
- Biscuits or cake
- 1 piece of fruit

DINNER
3 courses comprising:
- Soup or entrée
- Main course of meat, fish or eggs, vegetables and/or salad plus potatoes, rice  or noodles
- Dessert

Last winter 95% of our parties gave an excellent or good rating to the food in our hotels

   
WHAT IS A STUBE?
In many hotel descriptions you will see the word Stube (or Stüberl, which is a small Stube), something which is prevalent in the German-speaking Alpine countries. It is usually a smallish room, seating perhaps 15-20 persons (though it can be smaller or larger), furnished with tables and chairs, mostly fitted out with wood-clad walls and often heated by a Kachelofen (traditional wood-burning stove). It is used for drinks, light refreshments and casual eating. There is usually a Stammtisch, a table reserved for the locals, where cards are often played. Generally, a warm, cosy room for cold winter nights!