Eric Tholomé

Excellent food and very good service with a couple of negative points.

We really liked the salmon and the mussels, as well as the endive salad and the fries. The desserts were very good too.

4 stars instead of 5 for only two reasons:
- the salmon supposedly came with truffles but there wasn't a hint of truffle taste
- a 10% tip was automatically and discreetly added to the bill - I understand it's common here, but the way it was so discreet just really bothered me, especially for us tourists who are not used to this custom

Nice decor (though quite similar to the current trend of industrial + old stones + filament lights), very nice good service, but the food is quite average. Not a lot of taste. It'd be ok if the price was reasonable, but it's quite expensive for that quality of food.

We had the 10 course dinner + paired wines. We thoroughly enjoyed the 4 hours we spent there. Every course as well as the amuse bouche were incredible, both in taste and in looks. The plates themselves were boring (all white) compared to what we've seen elsewhere but that's probably by design: so we focus on the food itself. The pace was also great throughout the dinner.

The wine pairing is really expensive (more expensive than the meal itself) which is a bit outrageaous, but we'd say at least half the wines really were fantastic extensions of the corresponding food, which isn't always the case (sometimes it's just a nice pairing, but not really that magical chemistry), so we'd recommend it. If you'd like to save and don't want to be too drunk at the end of the meal or throw away half the wine, you can ask to share one wine pairing for 2. Probably an outrageous thing to do, but we resent paying and then throwing away so much good wine so this arrangement works great for us.

We had gone there a few times in 2012-2016 and always felt that service was poor (mostly unfriendly) and food pretty average for a pretty high price.

We decided to give it another try and were very pleasantly surprised: the location has stayed amazing with a view on the lake, the harbour, the city and the Alps. Now the terrasse has a flair, with different corners, but most importantly, service is very friendly and good, and the food is truly excellent. So glad this amazing location is now an uncompromised experience, worth the price asked.

Maybe one little downside: the whole service can be a little slow when they're full (which is almost always)

UPDATE July 2023: it was full and service was fast, and tap water is free (unheard of in Switzerland)!!