Welcome to Swiss Traveler – a luxury & gourmet travel blog

Do you enjoy staying at luxury hotels and dining at exceptional Michelin-recommended restaurants while traveling? Are you looking for outstanding accommodations and acclaimed dining experiences that offer excellent value for money? Then you have come to the right place.

Here you will find detailed reviews and insights into luxury hotels and fine-dining establishments that are truly worth the expense.

From time to time, you will also discover recommendations for local activities, with a particular focus on exploring destinations on foot. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe famously said, “Only where you have walked have you truly been.”

Keep traveling—and do it in style.

tourism Mallorca

Europe, Europe Activities, Spain

Mallorca, Spain – how to continue with its (excessive) tourism?

The biggest of the Balearic Islands - in the western Mediterranean Sea - is at the crossroads: Mallorca, the most visited of the Balearic Islands near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, must make important decisions as to its excessive…

clockwise from top left: Olten-Goesgen, Eptingen, Baden, Langenthal - fine dining restaurants Olten-Aarau

Aarau Restaurants, Europe, Europe Restaurants, Olten Restaurants, Switzerland, Switzerland Restaurants

Fine dining restaurants in the OLTEN-AARAU REGION, northwestern Switzerland

Update to what is still good & what is new: If you want to know where to head for great fine dining restaurants in the Olten-Aarau region outside of these two towns, then stay tuned. There are nine dining-spots you do want to miss if…

Aarau, Switzerland - fine dining restaurants Aarau

Aarau Restaurants, Europe, Europe Restaurants, Switzerland Restaurants

Fine dining restaurants in the town of AARAU, northwestern Switzerland

Update to what is still good & what is new: Now it is up to Aarau's (casual) fine dining scene, after providing an overview of the whole region Olten-Aarau and looking into the one of the neighboring town of Olten. And again I will create…

Olten, Switzerland - fine dining restaurants Olten

Europe, Europe Restaurants, Olten Restaurants, Switzerland Restaurants

Fine dining restaurants in the town of OLTEN, northwestern Switzerland

Update to what is still good & what is new: After presenting an overview of where to dine in style in the Olten-Aarau region in Switzerland's northwest in my last post, I want to break this list down in three parts of this area. The start…

left Olten, right Aarau / Switzerland - fine dining Olten-Aarau

Aarau Restaurants, Europe, Europe Restaurants, Olten Restaurants, Switzerland Restaurants

Overview fine dining scene in Switzerland’s Olten-Aarau region

Update to what is still good & what is new: I am painfully aware that I have not written about the Olten-Aarau region's fine dining scene for ages. And this despite the fact that it is where I come from. Hence, I want to catch up on this…

fine dining in Madeira (Ill Gallo d'Oro, Villa Cipriani, Avista, William)

Europe, Europe Restaurants, Portugal

Where to dine in style in Madeira’s capital Funchal, Portugal

(Michelin) fine dining scene on the flower island in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast: Madeira's offer of high-quality dining spots has developed since my first stay on this Portuguese Island more than ten years ago. At the time, I…