Posts under ‘Restaurants’

I first got to know Nick Malgieri when he was the spokesperson for Switzerland Tourism’s Gastronomy and Wine program in the early 2000s, traveling regularly to Switzerland from New York to report on fests, regional specialties, recipes, and wonderful restaurants in this country. His reports were published on the Swiss tourism board’s English-language website, […]

From mid-March, 2009. The high luxe LeCrans Hotel and Spa, which opened two months ago in this upmarket ski resort, is inaugurating a new feature: a chef’s table, or table d’hôtes, in Nicolas Bergeat’s kitchen. It seats up to eight people.
Guests gather first in the state-of-the-art wine cellar with view of the Alps and Rhône […]

DiningCity, an online restaurant guide, was founded in 1998 by Amsterdam-based Jeroen van den Brink. Some 11 years later, the guide has expanded to include a range of Dutch and Belgian cities and has made inroads into Spain, Italy, France, Austria and Switzerland. It also covers New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and […]

March 11-14, 2009. Some might call the Bären in Gsteig (near Gstaad) picturesque, others a tad touristy, but whatever your take this is as good a place as any for an intro to a Metzgete. A Metzgete - cochonnaille in French - refers to the old rural tradition (by no means Swiss only) of slaughtering […]

Until February 7, 2009. Chef Pitak Srichan of the Four Seasons Resort in Chiang Mai is dishing up northern Thai specialties at the Gstaad Palace Hotel’s Ristorante Gildo. That’s the food part of the Lotus Arts de Vivre  (www.lotusartsdevivre.com) Thai Festival which otherwise is presenting jewelry, accessories, and home decorations in conjunction with Jim […]

February 19 and 21, 2009. Imagine a six-course meal, each course featuring different citrus fruits: grapefruit, kumquat and lime, blood orange, combava, lemon, and clementine. From amuse-bouche (pre-starter) through “pre-dessert” and real dessert, the fruit highlights such dishes as veal with pistachio and kumquat-powdered rice served with flat-grilled foie gras of duck and lime, and  […]

February 13-15, 2009. Many Swiss hotels are offering romantic get-away deals for the Valentine’s Day week-end. Here’s a city-break selection.
Geneva, Tiffany Hotel. Recently renovated, Art Nouveau jewel near the Opera House, Victoria Hall and the contemporary art galleries, and a stone’s throw away from the Old Town and best shopping streets. One night (either 13/14 […]

February 6 to March 1, 2009. Are you dying for some borscht? Soljanka (spicy meat soup)? Missing a good old Stolichny salad (meat and potatoes with vegetables, eggs and mayonnaise)? Pine no more; Zurich’s Hotel Storchen is featuring three whole weeks of Russian cooking. Log onto www.storchen.ch for details and the number to call to […]

January 20, 2009. In the run-up to Fasnacht (carnival) in Basel, a tradition called Vogel Gryff puts the spotlight on the Right Bank part of the city called Kleinbasel. Things kick off around 11 a.m., when a raft on the Rhine brings a man disguised as a ‘wild man’  to the bridge known as the […]

If you’re in a Swiss city over the holidays, and decide you’d like to eat out on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve or January 1, you may be feeling like splurging and want to go to a top-rated gastronomic restaurant. Then you discover that most are closed during the holiday season […]