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Book review: Gault&Millau Suisse/Schweiz 2020

31/10/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

The new GaultMillau guide can be purchased in bookstores and online for CHF34.90 in French, CHF52 in German. The two language versions differ: the German one contains all 830 restaurants and lists of hotels, wineries, popular dining spots and the guide’s stars of the year. The French version has all of this but “only” 395 […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Anne-Catherine and Denis Mercier, Basel restaurants, Davide Ghidossi, Edmond Gasser, Gault Millau Swiss guide, Gault&Millau Schweiz 2020, Gault&Millau Suisse 2020, GaultMillau, GaultMillau Chef of the Year 2020, GaultMillau Sommelier of the Year 2020, Manuel Tresch, Patrick Adank, Raymond and Violaine Paccot, Sandrine Caloz, Solange Lucie and Tristan Perey, Sonja Grandits, Stucki restaurant, Susi Steiger-Wehrli

The October garden

26/10/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

To brighten your day and remind you that the aromas and flavours we find in wines often become familiar to us first through our gardens: here are a few photos from my Swiss Alpine garden, at 1100 metres altitude, in late October. You might think I have enough squash, but when I stopped by the […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Garden & nature Tagged With: Jordane Carron, October garden, Opale apple, Pressoir des Alpes, pumpkin, Squash

Fine cuisine goes cozy at Geneva’s revamped Bistro

18/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

I love good food and I love uncomplicated, cozy meals, so the idea that a GaultMillau 17/20 chef in the middle of Geneva might think this is what his restaurant should serve was bound to appeal to me. Armel Bedouet has 17 points for the gastronomy restaurant l’Aparté, which has a mere 15 seats, and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Travels Tagged With: Armel Bedouet, Bistro restaurant, Gaëtan Dubret, GaultMillau promoted chef of the year, GaultMillau rookie of the year, Geneva bistro, Hotel Royal Geneva, Jean-Nicholas Trens, l'Aparté restaurant, madeleine, Michelin two star restaurant, restaurant featuring Swiss wine, vacherin parfait

Uncork now, 1 April 2019

01/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

A dashingly handsome new Chardonnay (first vintage) from Weinfelden in Thurgau and a charming and rare Freiburger from Vully in Fribourg

Filed Under: Food & dining, Uncork now, Wineries Tagged With: Chardonnay, Fabrice Simonet, Freiburger, Freisamer, Lake Morat, Le Petit Château, Martin Wolfer, Morat-Vully, Murtensee, Pinot Noir, Thurgau

Pairing wine with chicken curry

01/04/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Supper would be a curry, mid-hot, spicy but not burning, but those spices required some reflection when it came time to pick out a wine. We went for 2 whites.

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: chicken curry, food and wine pairings, Founex, Frères Dutruy, Geneva, Jean-Michel Novelle, Muscat, Sauvignon, Savagnin, Vins Vaudois, Viognier, white blend

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