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
  • Berggasthaus Äscher-Wildkirchli
  • Säntisgipfel Restaurant
• Bread – Pfilenbrot
• Drinks
  • Appenzeller Alpenbitter
  • Why You Should Visit the Home of Appenzeller Bier
• Specialties – What to Eat & Drink in Switzerland’s Appenzell Region

Basel

• Specialties – 10 Traditional Foods from Basel, Switzerland
• Restaurant: im Ackermannshof with Chef Flavio Fermi

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)
  • Meiringen, Switzerland: The Birthplace of Meringue?
  • Tropenhaus Frutigen: Tropical Fruit and Caviar in the Swiss Alps (Frutigen)
• 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
• Specialties:
  • Cuchaule (saffron bread)
  • Fondue Vacherin Fribourgeois with Poires à Botzi and Vully Wine

Genève

• Farm – Ferme de Budé: Urban and Organic Farming in Geneva
• Market – La Halle de Rive
• Specialties:
  • Cardons
  • Marmites
  • Pain Genevois

Glarus

• Specialties – 10 Foods to Try in the Swiss Canton of Glarus

Graubünden

• Accommodations: Staying Overnight at a Berry Farm in Valposchiavo
• 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
  • Pfirsichsteine: Peach Pit-Shaped Candies
  • Tatsch
  • Thusner Hosenknöpfe
• 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

Luzern

• Regional food products from the UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch

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
  • Absinthe
  • Batz neuchâtelois
  • Bleuchâtel Cheese
  • Pain de Pâques
  • Sèches au beurre 
• Wine
  • Oeil-de-Perdrix
  • Neuchâtel Non Filtré

Nidwalden

• Restaurant – Taverne 1879 at the Bürgenstock Resort
• Culinarium Alpinum, Switzerland’s center for Alpine food

Obwalden

• Dining at the Jugendstil-Hotel Paxmontana

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

• Culinary Hike: Walking the Olive Path in Lugano
• Specialties
  • Farina Bóna
  • Nocino

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)
• Specialties:
  • Apricots
  • 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
  • Bitter des Diablerets
  • Bouchon Vaudois
  • Boutefas

Zürich

• Cooking classes
  • Sherly’s Kitchen
  • Hiltl Akademie
• 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: January 11, 2022