Zermatt · Art · Furi · Private dining
Aroleid
Fire-cooked goodness and original fine art, in one private house.
Listed in the MICHELIN Guide
Enquire about an eveningThe house you have to yourselves.
Marián Podola — founder of The Private Chef® and Zermatt Kaffee®, and of Aroleid as you know it today — shares it with the fine artist Pavlinsky. You book it for the evening or the day: dinner and lunch cooked over fire, her paintings on the walls, and daytime classes in cooking, coffee-brewing and art.
It’s listed in the MICHELIN Guide, and kept small on purpose.
The food is more than a short list of signature dishes — it’s an attitude to cooking. Some of Marián’s dishes are shaped by the years he spent in kitchens across Europe holding one to three Michelin stars, then pared back, with an attitude of less is more.
Fire
Yakitori skewers over binchotan, larger cuts over open asado coals — Japanese charcoal that burns hot and clean. The fire does most of the seasoning.
Time
Curing, ageing, fermentation, with French technique underneath. A lot of the flavour just comes from time.
The valley
Valaisian produce wherever the season allows, and classical French cooking with an Asian accent — Japan, Vietnam, Thailand. Coffee from Zermatt Kaffee®, roasted in the house since 2017 with a chef’s approach.
The Zermatt home of Pavlinsky, in Furi.
Pavlinsky is a Czech-born fine artist who lives and works in Zermatt, and the resident artist at the Heinz Julen Gallery on Bahnhofstrasse. She paints the Matterhorn in abstract realism, alongside other works and commissions.
Her paintings hang on the walls here. Some evenings she joins the table; other times the studio opens so you can paint your own. If you’d like to take a piece home or commission one, we’ll arrange it with her.
Paint your own Matterhorn
A guided session with Pavlinsky, from a first canvas to a full studio afternoon. Some evenings pair it with dinner at the table.
Book an experience →Originals, prints & commissions
See the paintings on the walls, take one home, or commission your own. We handle it with her studio.
Ask about the art →Three ways to book.
There is no a la carte and no set hours. Tell us what the evening is, and we build it around you.
The Private Table
An evening for up to twenty. A tasting menu built around the week and cooked over fire, with wine chosen for the table. One group, the room to yourselves.
Enquire →The Whole House
The whole building, yours for a celebration or a gathering. We plan the menu and the service around the occasion.
Enquire →Aroleid × Pavlinsky
Dinner under Pavlinsky’s paintings, or an evening where you paint your own alongside the table and take it home.
Enquire →The menu changes with the week, so we don’t print one. Tell us the date, how many, and anything we should cook around, and we’ll send back the evening we’d cook for you.
Payment secures the date. We look after the rest.
Getting here.
- AddressFuri 151 · 3920 Zermatt
- OpeningOne table an evening, by request
- GuideListed in the MICHELIN Guide
- Contactmarian@private-chef.ch
Aroleid opens by request. Write to us and we’ll find your evening.
We don’t publish prices — every evening is quoted for the table.