Sapori restaurant offer: tasting menu, CHF89, not including wine, April 22-May 6, 2009 The Richemond hotel’s young but highly talented chef Pietro Amato will be hosting chefs from different regions of Italy over the next few months in the Sapori Ristorante. He kicked off the first series yesterday with none other than Italy’s top chef, […]
Food & dining
GL on WRS Friday – again!
You can find GenevaLunch editor (that’s me!) on WRS twice this week, first with Anne Glusker on “Stir it up,” talking about Swiss wines, and now Friday talking to Pete Forster about expats and what they look for on GenevaLunch. We’ll be joining others who cater to the foreign population in Switzerland. Tune in: WRS, […]
Swiss drinking fewer foreign reds, more foreign white wines
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss carried on drinking wine in much the same way in 2008 as in 2007, consuming 2.78 million hectolitres (1 hectolitre = 100 litres or 22 gallons) of wine, roughly 36 bottles per person for the year for the permanent population of 7.7 million. But they drank less red wine […]
leshop.ch: A luxury that fits everybody’s pocket
Ed. note: We’ve now moved this post to Jonell Galloway’s food blog on GenevaLunch, “The Rambing Epicure.” You’ll find this and much more on buying, cooking, eating at home and dining out from our food expert! Be sure to visit soon.
Bordeaux in hand, the wine writer is back
Winter is a lovely time for drinking wine, and let’s be clear, drinking is not the same as tasting. We’ve had guests in the mountains, where we opened big hearty red wines from Spain to have with roasts, and other friends with whom we compared fendants from Valais over raclette (cheese melted over potatoes) next […]