The Top 8 Restaurants in Switzerland

If you like French food, you probably like Swiss food too. In the best restaurants in Switzerland, the typical dishes like Rösti, Raclette, and Fondue are not served too often.

The sauces that are served with most menus in regular restaurants or in Swiss house-holds are rich and delicious, but also - in my opinion - heavy and a real cholesterol booster. And let's face it, a chef just can't provide the food creativity with only cheese dishes like Raclette or Fondue. Regardless of that, most visitors and foreign people calling Switzerland as their home still like our food.


Of course if gourmet food is not to your liking, many restaurants in Switzerland serve different international dishes in all major cities and the better known high end ski resorts.

Switzerland is certainly known to have some of the best restaurants in the world. In accordance with the evaluation of the Gourmet Food Guide "Gault Millau", the eight best restaurants in Switzerland possess the desired honor of nineteen points out of a total of twenty.

By the way, the maximum of twenty points have never been given to any of the Swiss restaurants. Unlike the ratings for hotels which are given in stars, the restaurants are rated either in points or in stars by the French Michelin Guide.

All visitors and all gastronomic guides subsequently confirm that the Lac Léman Region (Lake Geneva) are ranked among the world's best superlative gourmet cuisine. Few areas can in fact boast such a density of multi-starred and award-winning establishments, also featuring regional cuisine.

Among the best restaurants in Switzerland who have been at the top for many years in addition to the prestigious Crissier establishments, are the following:

Ermitage Bernard Ravet at Vufflens-le-Château, the Pont de Brent at Brent sur Montreux, l'Auberge du Raisin at Cully-Lausanne, la Grappe d'Or at Lausanne, la Table du Palace at the Lausanne Palace and many more.

Of course the area around Lac Léman between from Geneva to Montreux is not the only area where gourmet restaurants in Switzerland are found. But do you really know where to find some of the top Swiss restaurants while vacationing in Switzerland? Below you will find a list of the best rated.

The best restaurants in Switzerland rated with 19 points:

Domaine de Chateauvieux
This restaurant was built in the heart of the Geneva vineyards in Peney-Dessus. Today, Châteauvieux is the flagship of Philippe Chevrier, one of the most talented chefs. In these historical surroundings, he develops a very creative and inspired haute cuisine, highlighting the most exclusive products of the gastronomic tradition.

Ermitage Bernard Ravet
Bernhard Ravet has enjoyed tremendous success and was chef of the year in 1996. And his daughter Nathalie was Sommelier of the year in 2006 which means that she really knows the wines and champagnes. It is not a cheap place and a three-course menu for two people will cost you Sfr. 615, and a five-course menu Sfr. 850. For most of the wealthy and famous people living around Lac Léman, this will not be a problem.

Restaurant Philippe Rochat
Sometimes regular customers are occasionally taken to the kitchen for an aperitif while seated shy and quietly around the small round table - and are astonished. In front the chef: Philippe Rochat who in the last ten years has become more ripley, more calmly but no trace less ambitious. With him twenty three more chefs and a young pretty woman - probably the best brigade in Switzerland.

Pont de Brent
The Maître d'hôtel has a legendary clock feeling who treats each guest just like a friend of the house. And you will receive a friendly smile from the sommelier that refers the gourmets to those wines from the great, gigantic cellar which go best with their food. From the appetizers that are tasted with an aperitif to the chocolate with cafe at the end - the food in the Pont de Brent is full of surprises and with palate joys.

Restaurant Pierroz
The restaurant Pierroz is a gourmet temple par excellence. Its owner and one of the greatest chefs of his generation, Roland Pierroz, demonstrate his talent in search for perfection with every dish that comes on the table. His artistry regularly persuades a host of Celebrities in Switzerland to make the pilgrimage to Verbier in the Valais.

Didier de Courten
The Didier de Courten restaurant is located right in the downtown section of Sierre close to the train station. This gourmet restaurant seats between 50 and 80 guests. It offers a choice of settings dedicated to the pleasures of fine food and excellent local wines. Expect to see many of the high society who is vacationing in Crans-Montana just above the town of Sierre. Stars like Roger Moore - James Bond or Celine Dion just to name a few.

Kunststuben
At this fine restaurant you will see regularly Tina Turner and her life-partner Erwin Bach. Horst Petermann and his business partner Rico Zandonella are even in their twentieth year in the Kunststuben in high form. They haven't backed off at all since they started out. On the contrary: They experiment, tinker around and refine in their small haute cuisine laboratory in Küsnacht close to Zurich that it is really a true joy.

Die Fischerzunft
Tasting the food of this excellent restaurant is like a culinary voyage around half the world in ten minutes. A mix from Thailand, Korea, France, Japan and China is what chef André Jaeger understands under Euro Asiatic haute cuisine. The guest feels already with the first course that more than thirty years of experience and high class is at work with fascinating eastern ingrediences and spices.

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