To reach the mountain village of San Cassiano in northern Italy – where chef Norbert Niederkofler runs his internationally renowned restaurant St. Hubertus – you can either fly to Venice or Milan. But the actual journey only begins there: You will have to rent a car, and you will want to bring along your motion sickness pills. Then, you’ll meander for hours on end through winding roads that keep getting higher and higher, each curve offering a different panorama of the area’s distinctive sharp and rugged mountain peaks, until you arrive in the small valley of Alta Badia. Here, at just over 5,000 feet above sea level, Niederkofler creates his dishes inspired by the rough nature of the Dolomites.