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Merry Christmas with a camel’s milk chocolate camel

21/11/2011 by Ellen Wallace

BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss supermarket chain Migros will undoubtedly have chocolate Santas and trees for the holiday season, but this year it’s come up with an unusual Christmas treat: a milk chocolate foil-wrapped camel fit for the Three Kings of Christmas lore. The supermarket will stock them in 100 of its shops. It notes that […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: camel, chocolate, Christmas, holidays, Migros, milk

Travel: Zurich puts on the charm for a holiday weekend

18/12/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Your guide to a holiday-season weekend in Zurich, an easy train ride from Lake Geneva Click on images to view larger Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The charm of Zurich is at its brightest in the lead-up to Christmas. Daytime offers plenty of activities for children and adults alike, but the real fun starts in the […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Christmas, Fraumuenster, from Geneva, Glockenhof, Hiltl, holidays, hotels, Jules Verne panoramic bar, Lausanne, Marc Chagall, New Year, restaurants, Seidenhof, The Singing Tree, train, transport, Voderer Sternen, what to do, what's on, Zeughasukeller, zoo, Zurich, Zurich City Card

The philosophy of fine dining in Crissier

01/02/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Fine dining, Rudolf Steiner style The Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner was the inventor of the spiritual movement anthroposophy, a kind of intuitive ethics which has thrived in Switzerland, chiefly through the Waldorf schools and through foundations and communities inspired by his teachings. This seventeenth-century castle, Le Castel, was bought by the Lausanne branch of the […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: biodynamic, Dining, gourmet dining, holidays, Lake Geneva, Le Castel, No-smoking restaurants, organic, Restaurant guide, restaurants, Restaurants with terraces, Romantic dining, Rudolf Steiner, Special occasions, suisse, Swiss, Switzerland, terrace, Valentine's dinner, vegetarian

Nez Rouge ready for party season

08/12/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The time has arrived for the annual Christmas party reminder: don’t drive if you plan to drink. The limit in Switzerland is 0.5 per 1,000, which means about one glass of wine. That said, Christmas parties, at the office or elsewhere, often catch people by surprise, and if you have one […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Christmas, drinking, holidays, Nez Rouge, parties, road safety, Switzerland

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