Are you looking for a restaurant in Switzerland? Perhaps for a business lunch or a Saturday night dinner with friends or family? After more than a decade of living here, I’ve gotten to know a number of great restaurants, but I certainly don’t know them all!

If you’re looking for a place to eat, here are five resources that I personally use, in no particular order, to find a restaurant in Switzerland.

1. Michelin Guide for Switzerland

The Michelin Guide online has a directory of over 500 restaurants it has reviewed in Switzerland. In addition to fine dining restaurants with its famed stars, the guide also includes non-starred establishments. Its “Bib Gourmand” label recognizes restaurants with “good quality, good value cooking.” You can sort the list of restaurants by dollar signs, ranging from “$ – On a budget” to “$$$$ – Spare no expense.” In Basel, for example, you’ll find Restaurant Stucki with two Michelin stars, but the guide also lists Au Violon. This Bib Gourmand restaurant is categorized as “$$ – A moderate spend.”

2. GaultMillau Schweiz / Suisse

Another rating system for restaurants in Switzerland is the GaultMillau guide, which comes out annually in the fall. You can search its online database of over 800 restaurants by chef, restaurant or geographic location. Each establishment receives a rating of up to 20 points. For more casual restaurants, you can also search the GaultMillau POP! category by city.

3. Label Fait Maison

The Fait Maison (“homemade” in French) label recognizes restaurants that honor five key values: traceability, authenticity, transparency, proximity and sustainability. These are restaurants that have made a commitment to serve handmade dishes favoring local ingredients. The goal for this label is to highlight establishments whose dishes are prepared entirely or primarily in their own kitchens, without using pre-made components.

4. Slow Food: Alliance des Chefs

The Slow Food Foundation has its own directory of chefs working in restaurants or as caterers called the Alliance des Chefs. These chefs have embraced the values of Slow Food, creating food that’s good, clean and fair. More specifically, they use local and seasonal ingredients, showcasing their culinary expertise and cultivating strong connections with local agriculture. Their dishes must also incorporate, to some extent, traditional Swiss food products, such as Farina Bóna (toasted corn flour) and Bündnerfleisch (dried beef).

5. Swiss Tourism Offices

Finally, local offices of tourism found throughout Switzerland are another great resource for restaurant recommendations. You can stop in and talk with the staff directly or contact them by phone or email if you’re planning a trip.

Some tourism offices have taken additional steps to highlight culinary addresses in their cities and regions. For example, Lausanne Tourism has published two editions of its Guide Délicieux. The 2025-26 version of this guide contains more than 200 establishments, ranging from tearooms to bars to palace hotel restaurants (I was one of 10 “food insiders” that worked on the guide). In Geneva, the tourism office has the Geneva Food Guide, which has about 60 addresses selected by culinary expert and consultant Sébastien Ripari.

Do you have any other tips? And, what are your favorite restaurants in Switzerland? Please share your recommendations in a comment below.

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