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The bar-restaurant of Hotel Jezerca and one of Theth's busiest kitchens, a big glass-fronted dining room turning out hearty Alpine cooking, grilled river trout, meats and traditional northern-Albanian plates, with a wide terrace facing the valley and its peaks. The menu is broader than most in the valley: alongside the traditional Albanian specialities the kitchen makes fresh pizza and quicker fast-food plates, worth knowing on a night when nobody wants another plate of grilled meat. It sits on Rruga Nikgjonaj, in what the hotel calls the very centre of Theth, with the Albanian Alps filling the view.

A bar-restaurant and pizzeria in the hamlet of Dragobi, near the mouth of the Valbona valley, with a shaded terrace of wooden tables looking across to its stone-built dining house and the peaks beyond. Alongside wood-fired pizza it grills meats and river trout. One of the highest-rated stops on the drive up the valley.

A restaurant-and-guesthouse of timber chalets set on the valley floor beneath a dramatic wall of mountains. Alongside its rooms it runs a well-regarded kitchen serving traditional Albanian Alpine fare, grilled meats, trout and home-style dishes, either indoors or out in the garden. The kitchen cooks from the family's own farm in Theth, and breakfast, continental or buffet, is included for guests. Accommodation runs to nine wooden houses plus six newer stone ones, with double, triple, family and panoramic-view rooms quoted from around €60 to €80, though mountain rates move year to year. Parking on site is free, the owners arrange airport pickups, car hire and guided tours, and they put the place about 0.8 miles from the village centre.

One of Theth's busiest sit-down restaurants, a timber-and-glass dining room where the picture windows frame the peaks and the kitchen turns out hearty highland cooking. Expect grilled meats, fresh trout, mountain cheese and other traditional northern Albanian dishes served in generous portions.

A rustic restaurant named for the centuries-old stone water-mill it sits beside, reached by a little wooden footbridge over the rushing Valbona river. The millstone walls, whitewater and forest make the setting, while the kitchen turns out traditional Albanian mountain plates, grilled meats, river trout and home cooking.