Menu and Meal Guide
- Popular Beverages
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- Bier - Beer. Swiss beer is usually a light lager, but some are dark (dunkel).
Panaché is a refreshing mixture of beer and lemon soda.
- Kaffee - Coffee. Kaffee natur is black. Kaffee créme is with cream. A
Schale or Milchkaffee is coffee with hot milk.
- Milche - Milk. Vollmilch is whole milk. Milkch Drink is low-fat milk. Magermilch is
non-fat skim milk. PAST is pasteurized milk.
- Rivella - A Swiss soft drink, made out of whey, the by-product of cheese making.
- Schnaps - Brandy or distilled wine. Potent (often 100 proof), clear and slightly
flavorful. Äpfelli is from apples, Kirsch is from cherries.
- Tee - Tea. Tee Citron is tea with lemon. Tee Natur is plain. Ice Tea
(pronounced "EES tay") is popular, and almost always served sweetened.
- Wasser - Water. When the Swiss ask for water in a restaurant, they are asking
for mineral water. Water is not served automatically. Ask for normales Wasser or
Brunnenwasser if you want normal water.
- Mineral wasser is carbonated, bottled water. A trick many people use is to always carry around aspirin. When you want
water, simply show the aspirin to your waiter, and they will get the idea.
- Wein - Wine. Some think the best are white (try Aigle, Èpesses, Erlacher,
Fendant, or Feechy), while other prefer red (Dole, Merlot, Hallauer, or Blauburgunder).
