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Hotel Baeren in Unterseen (the old part of Interlaken, north of the river Aare) has a great local restaurant with great swiss specialities. You will not meet plenty of tourists there, but plenty of local people who know, where to go !
Also the building itself is one of the most beautiful and romantic restaurants in Unterseen and interlaken. The building dates back to 1674 - see some pics of the great interior on their webpage !
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Favorite Dish: Swiss Cheese Fondue
Cheese fondue is mostly served for a minimum of 2 persons.A melted mixture of different cheeses is served in a pot.Small cubes of bread are taken by long fondue-forks and dipped into the fondue.Tastes fine - but if you have a nervous stomach - better don't take too much.Also: drink a lot of tea or white wine and brandy with it.
Normally you get fondue only for a minimum of 2 persons, BUT in restaurant Baeren you may get it also for just 1 person - and have to pay just 3 sfr extra ! Preparing the fondue is quite a lot of work and needs a lot of attention by the cook and it is served in a pot that is kept warm by an open flame... all of this done for just 1 single portion certainly deserves such a small extra-amount. At other places single tourists would have to order and pay for 2 full portions !
Updated Apr 4, 2011
Address: CH-3800 Unterseen - Seestrasse 2
Phone: +41 (0) 33 822 75 26
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MIGROS with their self-service-restaurants all over Switzerland are always a good choice to eat a good meal for a reasonable price. The MIGROS in Interlaken is directely opposite of the station Interlaken-West.
These restaurants are also a good place to read the newspapers that they have on free display or to warm up on a cold or rainy day.
Favorite Dish: I had a great lunch there and they have a hot buffet with all sorts of fried fishes, meat, chicken... and a warm buffet of french-fries, rices, vegetables etc. - at the end you have to pay 2,60 sfr for every 100 gramms.
For desert you may try "Rueblitorte" - a cake made of carrots !
Written Oct 17, 2005
Address: CH-3800 Interlaken
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there is a giant COOP-supermarket directely at the station Interlaken Ost and it has its own self-service-restaurant on 1st floor (USA:2nd floor).
While I had parked my motorhome not far from there, I had my breakfast there most of the days.
Something special in COOP and also in MIGROS-restaurants :
You may read the daily newspapers there for free and will not totally loose the contact to the catastrophies all over the world, while hiking and relaxing in switzerland...
Favorite Dish: Take a look at my pictures - I had a "cafe creme", 2 "Brienzer Mütschli" - my favorite kind of rolls and 2 pieces of cheese and payed 7 sfr / 5 Euros.
They have quite a big choice of breads, rolls, croissants, cheeses etc. and of course you may get ham& eggs and similar dishes as well.
Updated Oct 17, 2005
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The Tea-room/Confiserie/Restaurant "Schuh" is located on one side of HÖHEMATTE, and from the garden-restaurant you will see the famous mountain-view of the Jungfrau.
Plenty of years ago I was working there for a summer-season, and when I returned in 2005 it did not have changed a lot : There is still a pianist playing in the afternoon and the evening, you still have to choose your cakes at the counter umong a giant buffet of different cakes, pastries and chocolates.
Something new to me was the chocolate-show, where you may watch the production of fine chocolates daily at 4,5,and 6 p.m. The entrance-fee to that performance is 10 sfr and you will get a voucher in that amount and may change it against some of their sweet souvenirs...
Favorite Dish: This is really the best place I have ever seen, regarding production of cakes, fine chocolates, petit fours,ornamental chocolates of all kinds - just watch the great windows with chocolate-ornaments or figures, chess-plays with all figures made of chocolate...
Updated Oct 16, 2005
Address: CH-3800Interlaken - Höhenweg 56
Phone: + 41 (0)33 822 94 41
Website: http://www.schuh-interlaken.ch/
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Unterseen is the old / original town of Interlaken - north of the river Aare and in general hotels and restaurants are a bit cheaper there than in the centre of town.
They serve a 3-course meal every day and you may choose between 3 choices for the main-course : meat-, fish- or vegetarian. That meal is just 21 sfr / 14 Euros including soup and desert or a small cheese-platter. ( average price for just a 1-course-meal is normally 25 sfr at least in the area !!)
Favorite Dish: Fondue Bourgignone
Small cubes of fillet of beef and other meat are served raw, with a pot of boiling oil. - Take the meat with the special fondue-fork and hold it into the oil, until it is ready. - Then dip it into any of the various sauces or dips, that you get with it.Mostly they serve also vegetables and fruits with it.
This is a great dinner, but it takes a very long time and you have to 'work hard' to get away with the hunger !
Updated Oct 16, 2005
Address: CH-3800 Interlaken - Seestrasse 16
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Chez Florent is the name of the Gourmet-restaurant of the Parkhotel Giessbach and it has 14 GaultMillau-points for its excellent cuisine. The restaurant is open daily during the summer but in the winter-season they open only at friday and saturday evening during the 4 weekends of advent and upon reservation for groups of at least 40 persons !
Parkhotel Giessbach is such a lovely ambiente in a great surrounding, with a great terrace facing the Brienzersee and with a view of the waterfalls as well.
Favorite Dish: every day they have a special 4-course menu - you may see that on the web-page below !
Updated Oct 11, 2005
Address: CH-3855 Brienz - Parkhotel Giessbach
Phone: +41(0)33 952 25 25
Website: www.giessbach.ch/en/restaurants/chez_florent.php
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