
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 Mercer Hotel, Barcelona
One of several great luxury boutique hotels in Catalonia’s capital:
The beautiful city of Barcelona is one of our family’s most popular city breaks in Europe. We like to stay at luxury boutique hotels and Catalonia’s capital has a lot…

Review of Restaurant Tiefmatt, Holderbank near Olten, Switzerland
UPDATE: new management as from January 2023
Mountain restaurant becomes a gourmet destination:
At the beginning of this year, the reopening of mountain restaurant Tiefmatt as a part of the Thommen Gastronomie AG – a family-owned company…

Review of China-Restaurant zum Alpenroesli, Olten, Switzerland
Traditional restaurant becomes Chinese restaurant with a twist:
Restaurant Alpenroesli, an old-established restaurant in the center of Olten, reopened under new management and under the name of China-Restaurant zum Alpenroesli. Whereas Caribbean…

COMO The Halkin Hotel & Texture Restaurant, two long-time favorites in London
A luxury boutique hotel & an urban modern restaurant:
London is one of our family’s favorite cities to visit and we did this three times in the past eight years and every time we stayed at COMO The Halkin and had dinner at Texture restaurant,…

Review of Restaurant The Ledbury, London
UPDATE: Michelin three stars as from February 2024
Outstanding culinary experience in Britain's capital:
My husband and I together with our son and his girlfriend had been looking for a high-end restaurant in London to celebrate a special…
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