Rich Culinary Cheese, Chocolate, & Wine Trips of Switzerland

Some of most renowned Swiss dishes in Switzerland are for sure the following one:  

–        – World known Cheese fondue & Raclettes: in both diversities cheese is melted. While cheese fondue is used with forks to irrigate bread cubes in the melted cheese, the raclettes,melted cheese, is served on the plate with onion, “Gschwellti” (jacket potatoes) and cucumbers.  

–        –  Rösti: These Swiss-style flat, hot cake made of grated, cooked jacket or raw potatoes is fried in hot butter or fat. It is often eaten as a side dish to accompany many other Swiss dishes and replaces food like fries or similar. In most simple version it consists of fried grated potato, although many people add other ingredients according to the region, including cheese, apple or onion.

–        –  Älplermagronen: A blend of gratinated potatoes, macaroni or pasta, cream, cheese and onion. And most important, stewed apple on the side. 

–        –  Birchermüesli: First time presented around 1900 by the Swiss doctor Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Brenner. Birchermüesli’s ingredients consist of oat flakes, condensed milk, lemon juice, hazelnuts or almonds and of course, grated apples. 

Swiss cheese – Swiss diary is one of the longest and most renowned traditional “crafts” of Switzerland. Cheese making heritage is rich and production of various kind of cheese is huge. Just couple of samples of cheese are hard Sbrinz AOP, a typical extra hard cheese, as well as Emmentaler AOP and Le Gruyère as best known examples of the hard cheese category. Also very known are semi-hard Cheese: Raclette Suisse®, Walliser Raclette AOP, Appenzeller®, Tilsiter, and typical examples of soft Cheese are Swiss Brie, Swiss Camembert or Tomme. Of course, most renowned cheese dish is fondue with numerous fondue restaurants in Switzerland but still are more common at certain areas around Zermatt, Interlaken, Gstaad. 

Did you know that Chocolate bars as we know it is actually invention from Switzerland? 

Therefore this country can provide best chocolate bars in the world: Lindt, Frey, Nestlé, Toblerone, Biotta, Minor, Cailler, Munz are just some of most renowned Swiss Chocolate brands.

Within this category we therefore provide cheese making and diary tours.