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Menu and Meal Guide

Popular Dishes
  • Brautwurst - A popular and economical grilled, large, white veal or brown pork sausage
  • Bündner Teller - Dried, smoked meal in a cold-cut form.
  • Fondue - Literally, melted. Cheese fondue is make from several kinds of cheeses melted in a fondue pot and mixed with wine. Bread, or sometimes vegetables are dipped in the pot with long forks.
  • Geschnetzeltes - Thin meat served with sauce.
  • Gschwellti - Boiled potatoes with sauces and cheeses garnished with pickles.
  • Hackfleisch - Ground beef.
  • Pferd or Ross - Horsemeat, considered a delicacy.
  • Rösti - Delicious version of hash brows. Bernerrösti is with bacon. Alplerrösti adds bacon, cheese and fried egg, on top of Obwalden.
  • Salat - Salad, or lettuce. Gruüner Salat is a small green salad. Nüssler or Nüsslis Salat is with bacon bits and chopped egg.
  • Schweinskotelette - Pork cutlet.
  • Servelat - A short, brown sausage, part of a standard picnic or barbecue.
  • Spiegeleier mit Speck - Eggs, sunny side up, with bacon.
  • Weiner Schnitzel - Schnitzel is a term used for breaded cutlet. The weiner is the veal variety prepared in the Viennese style.
  • Wurstsalat - Sausage salad with pasta or vegetables in a mayonnaise sauce, similar to tuna salad.