The Chef line-up 2026
The new chef line-up brings together outstanding personalities from top international gastronomy, celebrated restaurant concepts and culinary signatures of particular distinction. Among them are culinary personalities who can be experienced for the first time in this setting in Switzerland.
Program preview 2026
This first preview gives you an insight into the program. Further program items will be added on an ongoing basis. Detailed information, prices and tickets will follow at the beginning of June. Times are subject to change until final publication.
Fire, Nature & Fine Dining
Together with host and hunter Claudio Laager and Nicolai and Eva H. Tram from Knystaforsen, this exclusive venture takes you out into the Engadin countryside. The Swedish duo has been awarded a Michelin star and a Michelin Green Star and stands for a cuisine that is as archaic as it is highly precise, and which lives entirely from fire, landscape and product.
Guest Chefs
Chef Nicolai & Eva Tram, Knystaforsen with hotel director and hunter Claudio Laager
Opening - Kitchen Party
To mark the glamorous start of the festival, Badrutt’s Palace is opening its kitchen for a rousing kitchen party full of enjoyment, encounters and culinary highlights. Experience all the guest chefs and their teams up close and enjoy their creations where passion, precision and great culinary art come together.
Guest Chefs
Cocktails & Culinary Bites
Discover creative signature drinks and fine culinary bites, which each bar interprets in its own unique way, while bar hopping at the St. Moritz Gourmet Festival in various festival hotels.
Guest Chefs
Sun Society by GRACE -A Penthouse Culinary Escape
This exclusive lunchtime event combines stylish lightness with great cuisine. Look forward to a 5-course lunch by Mikael Svensson and Andrea Bonini, accompanied by an exceptional Grand Siècle Vertical by Laurent-Perrier and relaxed sunny moments.
Guest Chefs
Andrea Bonini × Mikael Svensson / Oslo (4-hands concept)
Fine dining & jazz in the park
On the terrace in the larch forest of the Hotel Waldhaus Sils, guests can enjoy a relaxed fine dining concept, accompanied by jazz music and a laid-back summer atmosphere.
Guest Chefs
Marcel Ravin, Monaco
Gourmet Safari
The Gourmet Safari is one of the festival’s legendary formats and takes you on two parallel gourmet trails through selected Grand Hotels in the Upper Engadine. In a small, exclusive group, you will experience several kitchen teams, different styles and an evening full of culinary surprises.
Cocktails & Culinary Bites
Discover creative signature drinks and fine culinary bites, which each bar interprets in its own unique way, while bar hopping at the St. Moritz Gourmet Festival in various festival hotels.
Guest Chefs
Gourmet Safari
The Gourmet Safari is one of the festival’s legendary formats and takes you on two parallel gourmet trails through selected Grand Hotels in the Upper Engadine. In a small, exclusive group, you will experience several kitchen teams, different styles and an evening full of culinary surprises.
4 Hands Dinner
At the 4 Hands Dinner at the Grand Hotel des Bains Kempinski, Joseph Lidgerwood from Seoul and Marcel Ravin from Monaco meet in a culinary dialog full of tension, origin and signature. Lidgerwood’s curious, multi-layered language of flavors meets Ravin’s cultivated, sensual cuisine and creates a menu of haunting elegance.
Guest Chefs
Joseph Lidgerwood, Seoul / Korea
with Marcel Ravin / Monaco
Cocktails & Culinary Bites
Discover creative signature drinks and fine culinary bites, which each bar interprets in its own unique way, while bar hopping at the St. Moritz Gourmet Festival in various festival hotels.
Guest Chefs
Val Chamuera Tavolata
At Val Chamuera, James Baron and Alvaro Clavijo from Bogotá invite you to an open-air tavolata. Clavijo, whose restaurant El Chato was named the best restaurant in Latin America in 2025, stands for contemporary cuisine with a clear focus on products and a great curiosity about origin and flavor.
Guest Chefs
James Baron x Álvaro Clavijo, Bogota / Colombia
Gourmet Safari
The Gourmet Safari is one of the festival’s legendary formats and takes you on two parallel gourmet trails through selected Grand Hotels in the Upper Engadine. In a small, exclusive group, you will experience several kitchen teams, different styles and an evening full of culinary surprises.
Fascination Champagne by Laurent-Perrier
An evening dedicated to great champagne culture and fine cuisine. In a festive setting, Laurent Perrier’s outstanding cuvées meet the elegant cuisine of Emmanuel Pilon, whose work at the three Michelin-starred Le Louis XV Alain Ducasse stands for Mediterranean clarity and contemporary lightness.
Guest Chefs
Emmanuel Pilon / Monaco
The White Chapter - An Elevated Culinary Night at N/5 - The Bar
This special night at Grace combines creative flying snacks from Mikael Svensson and Andrea Bonini with a fine Riesling pairing from Van Volxem. Svensson, whose restaurant Kontrast in Oslo has been awarded two Michelin stars and a Michelin Green Star, stands for Nordic cuisine with great product fidelity and quiet consistency. Accompanied by DJ sounds and urban elegance, the result is an evening full of shimmer, excitement and an upbeat atmosphere.
Guest Chefs
Andrea Bonini x Mikael Svensson, Oslo / Norway
Cocktails & Culinary Bites
Discover creative signature drinks and fine culinary bites, which each bar interprets in its own unique way, while bar hopping at the St. Moritz Gourmet Festival in various festival hotels.
Guest Chefs
St. Moritz Garden Party
For the Garden Party at the Grand Hotel Suvretta House, all guest and local chefs gather at their own cooking stations and turn the afternoon into a feast for all the senses. Between Nordic product cuisine, Mediterranean delicacy, modern Korean narrative power and Taiwanese finesse, the entire stylistic range of the festival is presented in a single, generous summer format.
Guest Chefs
With all Guest & Local Chef’s
Gourmet Safari
The Gourmet Safari is one of the festival’s legendary formats and takes you on two parallel gourmet trails through selected Grand Hotels in the Upper Engadine. In a small, exclusive group, you will experience several kitchen teams, different styles and an evening full of culinary surprises.
Cocktails & Culinary Bites
Discover creative signature drinks and fine culinary bites, which each bar interprets in its own unique way, while bar hopping at the St. Moritz Gourmet Festival in various festival hotels.
Guest Chefs
Gourmet Festival Open Doors
The gourmet world of St. Moritz opens its doors to locals, guests and families at the open end of the festival. Culinary stations in hotels and gardens, relaxed encounters and an enjoyable Sunday make this format an accessible, lively and warm finale, supported by the diversity of all the culinary personalities involved.
