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Café Beau-Rivage Frommer's Highly Recommended

18, place du Général-Guisan, Lausanne

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Cuisine Swiss
Hours Cafe daily 9am-1am. Restaurant daily noon-11:30pm
Location In the Beau-Rivage Palace, Ouchy, Around Town
Transportation Metro: Ouchy
Reservations Reservations recommended
Phone 021/613-33-39
Prices Main courses 39F-62F; fixed-price lunch 52F, dinner 88F
Credit Cards AE, DC, MC, V

Café Beau-Rivage 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 chèvre (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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