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Café Beau-Rivage Frommer's Highly Recommended

Cuisine Swiss
Hours Cafe daily 9am-1am; restaurant daily noon-11:30pm
Address
18, place du Général-Guisan
Location In the Beau-Rivage Palace, Ouchy, Around Town
Transportation Metro: Ouchy
Reservations Reservations recommended
Phone 021/613-33-39
Prices Fixed-price lunches 48F-82F ($39-$67/£20-£35); fixed-price dinners 82F ($67/£35). Main courses 39F-56F ($32-$46/£17-£24)
Credit Cards AE, DC, MC, V

Frommer's Review

This grand and elegant "brasserie de luxe" is in a lakeside pavilion, the dining room resembling a Paris cafe, with mirrors, pillars, cheerfully striped banquettes, bay windows, a flowery terrace, and a bustling environment that's less chillingly formal than you might have expected. Typical tasty dishes, made only with the freshest ingredients, include a superb version of steak tartare prepared on a trolley directly at table; a very fresh salad of wild mesclun greens with chevre (goat cheese); filets of sole either grilled or breaded and fried meuniere style; fricassee of chicken flavored with vinegar and tarragon; a satay of red tuna, skewered and served with peanut sauce; and tagliatelle with seafood. Sumptuous desserts can be ordered from the trolley.

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