
Welcome to Swiss Traveler – a luxury & gourmet travel blog
Do you fancy best luxury hotels and (Michelin) restaurants whenever you travel? Are you looking for fine accommodations and hot dining-spots that are priced competitively? Then this is the place for you! Here you find detailed information about high-end lodging and fine dining worth the expense.
Every now and then, there are also suggestions for activities, especially how to explore an area by walking. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, “Only where you were walking, you have really been”.
Keep traveling – do it in style!


Review of Restaurant & Hotel Ermitage des Ravet, Vufflens-le-Château, Switzerland
UPDATE: out of business end of July 2022
A gourmet weekend in Switzerland's French speaking part:
After two visits to the beautiful country estate of Ermitage des Ravet in the western part of Switzerland my husband and I decided to spend…

Review of Restaurant Mesa, Zurich, Switzerland
UPDATE: out of business end of 2021
Foodies’ delights in one of the top gourmet restaurants in town:
Restaurant Mesa is not an unknown place for fine food lovers in Zurich. It has been one of the two highest rated restaurants in the late…

2 top luxury design hotels in New York City
Modern British boutique hotel group Firmdale Hotels:
New York City is full of hotels catering to all tastes and needs, but I am sure both properties of the British Firmdale Hotels, Crosby Street Hotel and The Whitby Hotel stand out from…

Four top restaurants in NYC with fusion cuisine
Where to dine as a fine food lover in Midtown:
My recent trip to NYC together with my husband brought us not only to the world’s No. 1 chef of 2017, Daniel Humm at Eleven Madison Park (see my blogpost), but also to other recommended restaurants…

Dining at the World’s Best Restaurant of 2017, Eleven Madison Park in New York City
Dining Room Tasting Menu Summer 2018 in Daniel Humm's restaurant:
As soon as the word spread of a highly talented Swiss chef working in New York City, I wanted to dine at his restaurant. That was back in the late 2000’s. I learned at the…
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