La Chat-Botte
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A group of Geneva’s top restaurants have a treat in store for lovers of fine food and wine who happily realize that the free concerts at the Geneva Festival leave them with something to spend the week after the city’s big summer party ends.
“Restaurant Week” from 15-20 August will see haute cuisine meals for CHF50 for two courses, one of which is dessert plus amuse-bouche and coffee, or three courses, amuse-bouche and coffee for CHF65 each, prices well below what diners usually pay.
The Restaurant Week idea for Geneva began with Chat-Botté, the Michelin-starred restaurant at Hotel Beau-Rivage, in February.
It was such a success with the public that two others have joined in what they hope will become a growing, annual Geneva event: Rasoi at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and the Windows at Hôtel d’Angleterre.
Details, Savouring Switzerland food blog
Update 18 November Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Anne-Sophie Pic, head chef at the Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, has been given a prestigious second star by French-based Michelin Red Guides, whose new guide to Switzerland comes out 19 November. The Beau-Rivage is one of only thirteen 2-star restaurants in Switzerland. Pic leads the way for the Lake Geneva region, which continues to boast two of Switzerland’s three three-star restaurants, Philippe Rochat in Crissier, canton Vaud and Le Pont de Brent in Montreux, Vaud.
Swiss restaurants have a total of 101 stars, making it the country with the highest number of starred restaurants per inhabitant.
Michelin’s new guide to Tokyo is also out (it goes on sale in Europe only in February 2010). The city now has the highest number of 3-star restaurants in the world, with three. It also has more stars than any other city, 261, and Michelin refers to it as “world leader in gourmet dining.”
Two other restaurants which currently have one star are in line to receive a second star: Auberge de Floris in Anières, canton Geneva and Homann’s Restaurant in Samnaun, canton Graubuenden.
Michelin gave new single stars to three restaurants in Geneva, awarding them to chefs:
Title: Simon de Pury, an expert view of the art market from the man with the gavel, BSCC
Location: Hotel Beau Rivage, quai du Mont-Blanc 13 1201 Genève
Link out: Click here
Description: Simon de Pury on the international art market.
11:45 for drinks, 12:15 for lunch
CHF85 for members, CHF105 for non-members.
Start Time: 11:45
Date: 25 Nov 2009
End Time: 14:00
Register on-line by Monday 23 November. Further details from bscc.geneva@gmail.com
