Ristorante Pizzeria Al Trapper

The menu published on the website, without prices, includes among the starters Bergamo lard with mountain herbs on warm polenta, home-made salami, a board of home-produced cured meats and cheeses, Parma ham and bresaola with Grana. First courses include home-made casoncelli alla bergamasca, porcini risotto, potato gnocchi with mountain cheese and walnuts, egg tagliatelle with venison salmì, penne all'arrabbiata and strozzapreti with cream and porcini.

Almost all the main courses come with polenta, Bergamo-style or taragna as you prefer: local melted cheese, grilled salamella sausage, local porcini, roast veal, beef braised in Barbera, venison morsels, a mixed grill and beef tagliata with herbs, with rocket and Grana or with porcini. Prices and the pizza list are not published: ask when you book.

In the garden the restaurant has a large area set up for picnics and grilling, with big tables, plenty of barbecues and a playground; OpenStreetMap maps it as the restaurant's private equipped area, with fire pits, just south of the building. The website also says that the Trapper welcomes groups of children on school trips who want to stop and eat their packed lunch.

How to reserve a table with a barbecue, what it costs and what you bring from home is not stated: ask the restaurant. The advertisement in the Pro Loco's summer 2026 booklet lists among its services the grill with a picnic park and tables, the sun terrace and the playground.

The two banqueting rooms seat up to 200 people, the website says, and the restaurant caters for birthdays, anniversaries and weddings with tailored menus. After lunch guests move into the garden, where the playground is fully fenced. The 2026 advertisement also lists a dance hall and a B&B, about which the website gives no details.

The Trapper also takes part in village festivities: in February 2026 it was one of the participating venues for the Pro Loco's carnival pizza evening on Saturday 14 February.

A booking is requested on every page of the website. The contacts are the phone number 0345 67955, the email info@altrapper.com and a WhatsApp button on the website; the Pro Loco's 2026 advertisement adds the mobile 328 4528424 and a second email address, newtrapper@gmail.com. For quotes for celebrations the website has a contact form.

Opening hours, closing days and any seasonal closures are not published by any of the sources consulted: call before you go up.

The restaurant stands at the pass, about sixty metres from the Colle di Zambla point as the crow flies. OpenStreetMap maps next to the building a car park reserved for Trapper customers and, about 80 metres away, the pass's free public car park; nearby are a Be Charge charging point with two spaces and a free charging station for electric bikes.

Arriva's line B buses terminate at the Passo Zambla, less than a hundred metres away: services run Monday to Saturday only, and in the timetable valid from 14 September 2026 to 8 June 2027 the last one leaves down the valley at 16:50. Opposite the bar and restaurant, the CAI Bergamo notes, there is a toilet for people with disabilities.

The way to the Alben passes the Trapper: to reach path 501 the CAI Bergamo says to follow via Prealpina from the Colle car park towards the Trapper bar and restaurant, with the cross-country track signs, and then the forest road to the Passo della Crocetta, about a kilometre further south. In winter the dirt road that leads from the Colle, at the Trapper, to Pian della Palla becomes a cross-country ski track: council ordinance no. 33 of 19 November 2025 closed it to traffic from 20 November, until revoked, and entrusted its management to the Sci Club Valserina.

About 160 metres away as the crow flies is the Parco Avventura Monte Alben, and from the pass car park the step-free walk to the Conca dell'Alben sets off: both have their own entries in the Things to do section. The Neve and the restaurants of Zambla Alta are below the pass, less than a kilometre away.