| Location: | Freiburger Hütte |
| Website: | https://www.freiburger-huette.at/ |
| Address: | Freiburger Hütte, Dalaas 239, 6752 Dalaas |
| Status: | Open (last checked on 19 August 2025) |
| Eaten: | “Brettl Jause,” two beers (Ustersbaucher Urhell) |
Freiburger Hütte is located next to the beautiful Formarin lake, one of the main tourist attractions of Lech. Easily reachable by foot from the hiking bus stop, the hut gets very busy around lunchtime, and finding a spare table (or even sharing a table with someone) can be very tricky. Aware of that, I arrived around 11:30 and managed to get a table and even stay alone at it for a few minutes.
The only problem is that following a filling breakfast at my hotel and a really short and easy hike, I was not hungry at all. Of course, as (un)luck would have it, the Brettljause turned out to be huge. With four thick slices of different types of Speck, three sorts of cheese, two sausages and a Verhackert spread, it was also quite varied and, importantly, looked good. Very unusually (I can recall only one other restaurant that did that), Freiburger Hütte’s Brettljause featured an entire egg still in its shell. The shell was a pain to remove, but the idea itself was praiseworthy.
The menu emphasized that all the products the hut used were organic and had come from local producers. That was easy to believe; all the ingredients were unlike anything one would find in supermarkets. On the other hand, I wonder if supermarkets sometimes shelve products with taste enhancers, for with one or two exceptions, the taste of the meats and cheeses in the Brettljause was not very strong. The four Speck types were not particularly different from each other and the same could be said about the cheeses. In Vorarlberg, I would have expected cheeses to be much stronger.
I must admit that were I hungrier, I would have enjoyed Freiburger’s Jause much more. Today, I unfortunately reached a point when I struggled not only to continue eating it, but even looking at it. When the hut’s host removed the 80% eaten dish from my table, I felt such a relief that I ordered a second beer in celebration. My advice to you is therefore to combine a meal at Freiburger Hütte with a much longer and strenuous exercise – hike or cycle to it from Lech, for example, or reach it from Spullersee. In that way, you will approach the hut after the busy lunchtime, and at the same time, you will not challenge your stomach the way I did.