The coziest evenings in Switzerland demand the coziest of cheese caves, which is precisely how Saturday night date night turned into a subterranean wine and fondue fiesta. The cave is located charmingly in the basement of the castle with a menu that specializes in local cheese is various forms of “hot” and local white varietals…
Tag: Swiss Miss
Steinhalle- Bern- Revisited
Of course a promotion needs a Michelin star dinner and for that, we hit up the veritable Steinhalle in Bern, which gave me my favorite Switzerland meal (thus far) earlier in the year. The gorgeous building looks so romantic (and a little spooky) at night. The Steinhalle team decides if they will serve in or…
Auberge de Duillier
As it turns out, I’m moving! Life comes at you fast and just when you think you might go one direction, something else appears out of the blue. A house in a neighboring village it would be then! To celebrate, there was a beautiful evening with laughter and (happy) tears at the charming Auberge de…
La Croix Verte- Nyon
It never ceases to amaze me that personal sized pizzas are something like $25-$45 in Switzerland. While I’ve gotten accustomed to doubled housing costs, higher grocery bills, a thousand different types of taxes, the pizza cost still blows my mind, maybe the most. You can drive over the border and have a delightful pie for…
Los Cuates- Nyon
Swiss Mexican always leaves something to be desired, but Los Cuates was definitely the best to date. A very festive dining room, somehow even more festive drinks, and food that was…well… Swiss Mexican. Pretty solid as there was note a grate of Gruyere or edible flower in sight as with previous attempts at the cuisine….
Mountain Burger- Villars
On an unusually sunny Friday in Villars, I was wondering the cutie little ski town seeking the best looking menu and spot to sit in the sun and devour a book I’d just started on the train. Ok, ok in reality I was also looking to devour some lunch and landed at Mountain Burger where…
Viu Villars
Hotel Viu Villars was the perfect jumping off point for a first ski weekend. Well situated by the center of town and train station, it made going back and forth, and storing luggage a breeze. The hotel was totally booked for the half-term school holiday and felt a bit like Lord of the Flies, but…
Villars-sur-Ollon
Bretaye, the ski station, and Villars will always have a special little, frozen, slice of my heart as it’s where I learned to ski- even after a icy-pants filled tumble down a giant hill.
Steinhalle- Bern
While you can find my musings on travel, food, hotel reviews, and recipe testing on this gorgeous blog, I don’t often leave feedback directly to establishments unless it’s particularly incredible or awful. In the case of Steinhalle Bern, I thanked the chef, waiter, and host directly, lauding the experience as my favorite meal in Switzerland…
Noumi- Bern
On a city break where you’re logging 25K-30K steps a day, I subscribe that you can eat anything you want, life is short, right? So after traversing the city, the hill behind it, and back again, I landed at the oddly situated Noumi, in the basement of the Bellevue Hotel. The vibe was not at…
Hotel Bristol- Bern
Ah, that January to April time period where literally nothing happens every year. You have to convince yourself to get back into the swing of things for work and stop drinking champagne at all meals because you’ve now entered the dullest part of the year. May as well surrender your passport for renewal, right? With…
Tara, the Titi’s, and a lot of hot cheese- Notes from a first date in Switzerland
As promised, something different from recipe or hotel reviews, an outtake from expat life. The last thing I probably needed during the early days of my heavy cancer diagnosis was a first date, so naturally, I would have to have one. After ending things with Jack, my first real Swiss boyfriend, at the end of…