Switzerland

This mountain hut restaurant is stuffed with cowbells, antlers, and other assorted alpine antiques. Dorigo, the charismatic owner, is on hand to tell wildly...more

In hip Zurich West is this half-designer, half-homey, all-Swiss new institution—a kind of mega-Pain Quotidien serving beer instead of soup. The name means...more

An only-in-Zurich (okay, and also in Basel) experience: eating in the dark. Really, really dark. Pitch black. This isn't all gimmick; it's to enable...more

A satellite of the Badrutt's Palace Hotel complex, Chesa Veglia is a 1658 chalet farmhouse hideaway a few minutes' stroll from the central behemoth. It consists...more

El Paradiso restaurant has been entirely refurbished in lavish style with candelabra on the open-air bar, sheepskin-covered benches, and a montage of magnums of...more

Hanselmann has been a fixture at the center of Dorf for what feels like forever. It's more of an après-ski café than a restaurant, with...more

A leafy anomaly in a meat-and-potatoes city, the vegetarian Haus Hiltl restaurant dates back to 1898, when one Ambrosium Hiltl decided rösti potatoes and...more

Squirreled away in the suburban hamlet of Champfèr, within the bright, woodsy interiors of a 17th-century Graubünden house, Roland and Brigitte...more

For decades this old-fashioned brasserie of a place has hosted visiting and resident stars and dignitaries—one suspects more because of what's on the...more

This cool glass box inside the Schiffbauhaus—the old shipyard building that's an entire neighborhood-within-a-neighborhood in hip Zurich West—is...more