Restaurant Talvo

The Restaurant Talvo is a traditional gourmet restaurant in a historic building at the Via Gunels in the village of Champfèr in the Engadin in Switzerland. For a certain time the restaurant was once managed by the Badrutt's Palace Hotel.

The Talvo became famous in the 1960s and 1970s when the international Jet set discovered St. Moritz and its surroundings as their favourite winter destination. People like Gunther Sachs, Brigitte Bardot, Gianni Agnelli and the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, were regular visitors of the Talvo. The Shah of Iran used to own a mansion in St. Moritz in an area known as Suvretta, near the hotel Suvretta House. When going to the Talvo, the Shah was always escorted by his bodyguards and police officers of the Swiss Federal Police.

The large former farm house which is now known as the Talvo, (Romansh language in the idiom Putèr: barn), was built in 1658. From 1880 until 1887 it was the local schoolhouse for the seven pupils of the village and their teacher, Mr Luzi Battaglia. Afterwards the house was in the possession of the Walther family until 1949. Therefore the house was also known as Chesa Walther. All in all four generations of the Walther family occupied the house. All of them were farmers. However, the last generation of the Walther family also started to rent out rooms to tourists.

The biggest change in the history of the house occurred when the property was sold to the gynaecologist Dr Eduard Morger from Rüschlikon on the west shore of Lake Zurich. At the same time as he bought the historic Chesa Walther, Dr Morger bought all in all the following properties:

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