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La Terraza
Set in a 12th-century building that has housed fishmongers, dukes and scribes over the years, La Terraza oozes atmosphere. High-back chairs and monochrome shots of bella Italia give the vaulted interior urban edge. When the sun’s out, sit on the riverfront terrace for favourites like clam and rocket spaghetti.
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Pizza Roma
For crisp wood-oven pizza, hearty pasta dishes and the silkiest tiramisu this side of Bellinzona, head to this low-slung haunt.
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Cyrano
Try to ignore the horrendous orange building and be soothed by the crisp interior and white linen. Out of the kitchen comes a mix of local cooking with broader Swiss and Mediterranean strands. The spadellata di camoscio al ginepro e sugo di caccia con spätzli al burro e cavolo rosso alle mele (pan-cooked chamois with juniper and game sauce, butter spätzli and red cabbage with apple) is a mouth-watering autumn Swiss country feast.
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Sankt Meinrad
Soft, creamy decor in this one-time corner bistro allows you to concentrate on the creative cooking emerging from the partly open kitchen run by Tobias Meinrad Buholzer. Just thinking about the Toggenburger Rindsfilet in Kakaobohnen rosa gebraten mit Pastinaken-Karotten-Gemüse und Petersilien-spätzli (medium-rare Swiss filet steak in cocoa-bean sauce with parsnips, carrots and parsley Spätzli ) gets the mouth watering.
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Le Jardin Thaï
With palms spreading overhead, low lights and rapid service, this is one of the good Thai eateries in town. There’s a broad choice of rice, noodle, vegetarian, fish and meat options. The curry de crevettes vertes au lait de coco (green prawn curry in coconut milk) is good for those who don’t like it hot. This hotel restaurant has La Palmeraie (same details) as its bed mate, a good spot for Swiss cooking and mussels.
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Restaurant Gletscherstube
Around two hours from Fiescheralp, you reach Restaurant Gletscherstube. This cosy wooden hut sits below the Eggishorn at 2363m on an Alpine pasture grazed by sheep. It’s a superb spot to refuel over lunch (mains around Sfr16) or spend a peaceful night close to the Aletsch Glacier. From here, you can already glimpse the peak of 3740m Geisshorn and the spindly Fusshörner that rise above the Aletsch Glacier.
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L’Adresse
Something of an urban loft with a fabulous rooftop terrace, it is all hip at The Address, a hybrid fashion/lifestyle boutique and contemporary bistro at home in renovated artists workshops. The Genevan address for lunch, brunch or Saturday slunch (a cross between tea and dinner, ie a casual evening ‘meal’ of cold and warm nibbles, sweet and savoury, shared between friends over a drink or three around 5pm) …
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Hatecke
Edible art is the only way to describe the organic, locally sourced delicacies at Hatecke. Bündnerfleisch (air-dried beef) and melt-in-your-mouth venison ham are carved into wafer-thin slices on a century-old slicing machine in this speciality shop. Take a seat on a sheepskin stool in the funky café next door to lunch on delicious Engadine beef carpaccio or Bündnerfleisch with truffle oil.
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Takrai
Judging by the anaconda of a queue at lunchtime, this pint-sized Thai joint is the place to be. Wafting spices and the rhythmic sizzle of woks lure you to the show kitchen. The accent here is on local organic produce and everything – from feisty papaya salads to the generously portioned curries – strikes perfect balance. Grab your chopsticks and Chang and pull up a stool. All dishes are available with tofu.
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St Alban Stübli
Set in a lovely quiet street, this looks for all the world like your cosy local tavern. With dim yellow lighting, plenty of timber and fine linen, you are served a mix of local and French cuisine. One of many savoury success stories is the Rosa gebratene Entenbrust an Orangenpfeffersauce mit Gemüse der Saison und Nudeln (baked duck breast in orange-pepper sauce with seasonal vegetables and noodles).
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Alpenrose
[ourpick] Alpenrose With its timber-clad walls, ‘No Polka Dancing’ warning and fine cuisine from regions all over the country, the Alpenrose makes for an inspired meal out. You could try risotto from Ticino, or Pizokel (aka Bizochel, a kind of long and especially savoury Spätzli ) from Graubünden or freshly fished local perch filets.
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Berghotel Alpiglen
Berghotel Alpiglen is two to 2½ hours from Grindelwald-Grund. Inquisitive goats, cows and gloriously muddy pigs roam freely around this charming wooden hut. Unsurprisingly, organic meat features highly on the menu (mains Sfr18 to Sfr25), with specialities such as flavoursome goat sausage and schnitzel. If you’re not in a hurry, this is a relaxing place to spend the night.
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Restaurant Aux Trois Amis
Restaurant Aux Trois Amis is a quintessential village bistro with a centuries-old facade up which a vine creeps. The place really comes into its own in summer, when its tree-shaded terrace heaves with punters purring contentedly as they eat, drink and gaze at the tumbling vines, just centimetres away, and the slate-blue water rippling towards St Peter’s below.
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Restaurant Reithalle
Fancy eating in the stables? The walls are still lined with the cavalry horses’ feeding and drinking troughs. Straw has been replaced by a menu of Swiss and international dishes, including vegetarian options. Part of a former barracks complex, it’s a boisterous, convivial location but keep in mind that tables are cleared at 11.30pm to turn the place into a dance club.
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Famiglia Leccese
Never was there a slice of Italy – Lecce in southern Italy to be precise – outside of Italy so authentic as this earthy, friendly, brilliant and bellissimo Italian-run joint. With an entrance resembling a private apartment, it is impossible to find unless you’re local and know about it. Look for the fairy lights behind Claude Cordey Motos.
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La Pomme de Pin
Search out this beacon of French cuisine in the web of alleys in the medieval old town. During WWII, Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin ate here. The place is divided into bistrot and gastro, the latter a fancy restaurant setting. Local fish is a permanent fixture on a menu that is otherwise largely determined by seasonal goods.
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Acqua
For a special experience, head to these converted waterworks beside a quiet stream. The atmosphere is glam postindustrial, with brown-leather banquettes, candles and chandeliers inside bare stone and concrete walls and floors. The food is Tuscan, and Basel’s beautiful people drink in the attached lounge bar. Sit out in the terrace in summer.
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Café Les Alliés
It doesn’t look like much on the outside but inside a cosy, warm restaurant with creaky timber floors winds out back towards a pleasant summer garden. At the front is the café. Some imaginative salads precede mains like steak de veau poêlé au jus d’abricots (pan-cooked steak in apricot sauce).
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Pipe
This jammin’ Afro-Asian den promises to ‘spice up your life’. Your tastebuds will do somersaults over hot and fruity springbok curry or apricot-glazed Karoo lamb paired with a liquoricey Shiraz. Surfboards on the ceiling, tribal masks on the wall and elbow-to-elbow tables create an original, intimate vibe.
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Antica Osteria Vacchini
Diners find no shortage of pasta, meat and fish options in this old-time eatery (with outdoor section across the lane) but the house special is piodadella della Vallamaggia, a set of three kinds of cold meats with three matching sauces, salad and fried – a filling and tasty summer option.
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Ichi-Ban
Check out the stylish and innovative Japanese eateries of Lausanne. Run by a George Clooney lookalike, this place offers especially good meat dishes (request how you want it cooked), fabulous sashimi and delicious futto maki (with seven ingredients mixed in, including avocado, shrimp and tuna).
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Sassafraz
A lovely address for wine lovers, this contemporary lounge and vinothèque cooks up the whole gamut of cuisines, English fish and chips (Sfr25.50) included, but it is the Italian mozzarella bar that steals the culinary show. In summer tempting smells waft across the teak tables outside.
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Charon
In what looks like someone’s home, this understated restaurant with art-nouveau decorative touches offers carefully prepared dishes leaning slightly to French tastes. One of the house specialties is the Seezunge gebraten mit Minikapern (a whole slab of sole baked with baby capers).
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Benacus
Super-cool Benacus is a breath of urban air with its glass walls, slick wine-red sofas, lounge music and street-facing terrace. The TV show Funky Kitchen Club is filmed here. The menu stars creative flavours like potato and star anis soup and Aargau chicken with caramelised pak choi.
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Le Pont de Brent
Set in a pretty country house, this is one of Switzerland’s top restaurants and has three Michelin stars (one of only two in the country). A changing and imaginative menu is complemented by a fine wine list. It’s northwest of Montreux in the hamlet of Brent, accessible by train.
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