Here are some articles I’ve written about Swiss food destinations by canton. Each is based on my own experience visiting these food-focused places, such as markets, restaurants, museums and more. I have also included articles about food specialties from these regions, so you know what to look for when you’re there. I hope this information will give you some ideas for planning your next culinary excursion in Switzerland.
Appenzell
- Mountain restaurants
- Bread – Pfilenbrot
- Drinks
- Specialties – What to Eat & Drink in Switzerland’s Appenzell Region

Basel
- Specialties – 10 Traditional Foods from Basel, Switzerland
Bern
- Accommodations – Du Bourg Apartment (Biel / Bienne)
- Culinary hike – Scenic Vineyard Trail from Biel/Bienne to La Neuveville
- Cheese
- Emmentaler Schaukäserei (Affoltern)
- Fromage Mauerhofer (Burgdorf)
- Experiences
- The Kambly Experience: A Swiss Biscuit Paradise (Trubschachen)
- Museum – Ballenberg, Swiss Open-Air Museum (Hofstetten bei Brienz)
- Mountain restaurant
- Métairie de Morat (Cormoret)
- Bergrestaurant Wasserngrat (Gstaad)
Fribourg
- Mountain restaurant: Chalet du Soldat
- Table d’Hôtes – Laure’s Kitchen: A Hidden Gem for Home-Cooked Meals in Châtel-St-Denis
- Specialty – Cuchaule (saffron bread)
Genève
- Farm – Ferme de Budé: Urban and Organic Farming in Geneva
- Market – La Halle de Rive
- Specialties:

Glarus
- Specialties – 10 Foods to Try in the Swiss Canton of Glarus
Graubünden
- Culinary hike – Culinary Trails and Crystal Blue Lakes in Flims
- Destination – Davos Klosters
- Experience – Make Alpine Cheese and Discover Regional Foods in Parpan, Switzerland
- Specialties
- Bütschella
- Capunets
- Churer Röteli
- Iva, an alpine floral liqueur
- Tatsch
- Shopping – Where to find Bündner Nusstorte in Scuol (Scuol)
- Restaurants
- CheCha Restaurant & Club (St. Moritz)
- Hotel Albrici (Poschiavo)
- Hotel Palazzo Salis (Soglio)
- Kurhaus Bergün (Bergün)
- Rolf Fliegauf’s Ecco Restaurant (St. Moritz)
- Schloss Schauenstein (Fürstenau)
- Waldhaus-Sils (Sils im Engadin)
- Mountain restaurants
- Alphütte Fops (Lenzerheide)
- Ristoro San Romerio (Valposchiavo)
Jura
- Cheese – Fromagerie des Franches-Montagnes (Le Noirmont)
- Chocolate – CHEZ Camille Bloch (Courtelary)
- Museum – Ô Vergers d’Ajoie, the Swiss museum of fruit & distilling
- Specialty – Saucisse d’Ajoie

Neuchâtel
- Cooking classes – Les Laboratoires Culinaires
- Mountain restaurant – La Buvette des Pradières-Dessus
- Museums
- Mines d’asphalte (Travers)
- Museum of Vine and Wine at Château de Boudry (Boudry)
- Maison de l’Absinthe (Môtiers)
- Shopping – Where to Shop for Local Swiss Foods in Neuchâtel
- Cheese – Fromagerie Les Martel (Les Pont-des-Martels)
- Specialties
- Wine
Nidwalden
- Restaurant – Taverne 1879 at the Bürgenstock Resort
- Culinarium Alpinum, Switzerland’s center for Alpine food
Obwalden
Schaffhausen
- Specialty – Schaffhauserzungen – Sweet Biscuit Sandwiches
Solothurn
- Culinary hike – Beer Hikes: Solothurn’s Buechibärger Trail
St. Gallen
- Mountain restaurant – Berghotel Seebenalp
- Specialty – St. Galler Bratwurst
- Wine: Haus des Weins (Berneck)
Ticino
- Specialties
Uri
- Specialties – 9 Traditional Foods from Switzerland’s Canton Uri
Valais
- Mountain restaurants
- Cabane des Violettes (Crans-Montana)
- Buvette de Pépinet (Crans-Montana)
- Culinary Hikes Along the Bisses in Nendaz
- Museum – Musée du Vin and the Vineyard Trail: From Sierre to Salgesch in Valais
- Beer – WhiteFrontier Brewery (Martigny)
- Specialty – Sii, a rye bread pudding
Vaud
- Cooking classes – Alimentarium (Vevey)
- Museum – Musée de la Vigne et du Vin at Aigle Castle
- Restaurants
- La Table d’Edgard at the Lausanne Palace
- Anne-Sophie Pic at the Beau-Rivage Palace
- Specialties
Zürich
- Cooking classes
- Restaurant – Mövenpick Wein’s 20/20 Restaurant
- Specialty – Tirggel

If you have a suggestions for a Swiss food destination or regional specialty that I should add to this list, please don’t hesitate to contact me or leave a comment below. Thanks! -Heddi
Updated: February 13, 2021
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