06/08/2025
Malga Panna, the Michelin-starred restaurant offering a six-course meal for €20: “We want to be accessible”
The initiative is not an end in itself, but an invitation to reflect on the issue of prices: “My $20 menu? It's a provocation to try to make our sector think and bring guests and hospitality back to the center of our work.”
The news
Some news stories seem designed to make us question reality: a lunch at a Michelin-starred restaurant, six signature dishes and a bill that barely costs the price of a pizza and a beer. But it really does happen, not in a daydream but in the mountains of Trentino, where chef Paolo Donei, spiritual and gastronomic guide of the Malga Panna restaurant in Moena (here is our review), has decided to launch a small but significant revolution in the world of haute cuisine. His six-course menu, designed for summer 2025, costs just €20. This gesture is much more than a promotional offer: it is a manifesto.
At an altitude of 1,400 meters, among the green pastures and crisp air of the Val di Fassa, Malga Panna does not just serve food: it tells stories. Each course is a window onto a tradition that knows how to reinvent itself, onto a family that has cultivated the culture of hospitality as an art form for generations. The mountain hut that now boasts a Michelin star was founded in the early 20th century by great-grandfather Lattanzio, a shepherd and mountain man who built a wooden hut where he produced cream so good that it became legendary. Then came the war, reconstruction, his parents' trattoria, and finally Paolo: a precocious chef who earned the prestigious award at the age of just nineteen, without ever losing touch with his roots.
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