Looking for places to go in Switzerland for luxury & gourmet travel? Here you find curated luxury hotels and gourmet (Michelin) restaurants. In addition, there are some tips for activities, mostly about walking. Also have a look at my comprehensive guides for Switzerland: itinerary, premium destinations, luxury hotels (part one/part two), fine dining (part one/part two)!

Switzerland travel & dine in style 2023
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My Switzerland travel & dine in style directories 2023

Guides about my home country - itinerary, premium destinations, luxury hotels & fine dining 2023: I just wanted to let you know that I have updated my Switzerland directories for traveling and dining in style for 2023! There are the four…
Restaurant Zollhaus Verena Olten
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New management for Restaurant Zollhaus aka Verena, Olten/Switzerland

Dave Waelti is now in charge of one of Olten's best restaurants: NOTE:  This post is in German as it concerns a local dining spot in my home town of Olten in Switzerland's northwest. Only the following short summary at the beginning is in…
clockwise from top left: Olten-Goesgen, Eptingen, Baden, Langenthal - fine dining restaurants Olten-Aarau
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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
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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
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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
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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…
gourmet Hotel Mammertsberg/Switzerland
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A weekend at the gourmet Hotel Mammertsberg in the Lake Constance area, Switzerland

A luxury boutique hotel with Michelin starred cuisine & lake view near Saint Gallen: UPDATE: new management as from fall 2022 (boutique collection by Andreas Caminada, 2-star Michelin chef Silvio Germann) Only recently I came across…
The Chedi Hotel Andermatt Alps Switzerland
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A short stay at the ultra-luxury The Chedi Hotel in Andermatt, Switzerland

Pure luxe at the one-of-a-kind The Chedi Andermatt in an unglamorous Alpine village: The news about The Chedi Andermatt Hotel coming to a fairly untouched village in the Swiss Alps was as a total surprise! Without exaggeration, almost everyone…
private beach at Hotel Castello del Sole Ascona Ticino Switzerland
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5-star Hotel Castello del Sole, an oasis of calm in Ascona, Switzerland

A 140-hectare property with private beach in Switzerland's Mediterranean like south:  If I had to make a list of my favorite luxury hotels in Switzerland, then Castello del Sole Ascona in the canton of Ticino would rank in the top positions!…