Fun and entertainment Romandy

Situated in the middle of magnificent gardens, the Paderewski room of the Casino de Montbenon, built in 1908 and renovated in 1981, is renowned for its acoustics. Today it is a multi-purpose venue that hosts concerts of contemporary music, jazz (notably the Jazz Onze plus festival), as well as recitals thanks to its complete equipment. It is even sometimes used for conferences, congresses or cinema screenings, depending on the events on offer.

In the heart of the old Planches district, you'll discover this beautiful comedy theater. An old Bernese-style building, the Maison Visinand houses Montreux's cultural center and, in the basement, the Montreux-Riviera theater. Its small auditorium, in a cellar, offers excellent acoustics. The program is excellent and rich, offering both classic plays and comedy shows. After the show, you can meet the actors, from both Swiss and French troupes.

Built in 1973 and enlarged in 1981, the Montreux Music and Convention Centre took its final shape, all in transparent glass, in 1993 with the inauguration of the prestigious Stravinsky Concert Hall and Auditorium. It has several halls that can accommodate up to 3,000 people. It is here that most of the paid concerts and headliners of the Jazz Festival take place, as well as the Festival du Rire and many other shows.

In 1995 choreographer Philippe The opened his company's new place of residence in Lausanne, the Theatre of Sévelin 36. Each year, this space hosts different events devoted exclusively to contemporary dance, including the Lausanne International Dance Festival and the Festival Les Printemps de Sévelin.

It is possible to discover in advance the shows that the famous company of 35 dancers, created by Maurice Béjart, will give all around the world. You can also simply attend the company and school shows, most often in the Metropolis room.

The Société de développement de Saint-Sulpice is fortunate to have two sites that are particularly well-suited to concerts: the Romanesque church, a unique site with acoustics well-suited to classical music, and the foyer paroissial des Pâquis, an auditorium that can accommodate concerts with larger audiences. Five Sundays a year, the Romanesque church of Saint-Sulpice hosts chamber music concerts. This is an opportunity to discover young musicians and enjoy a stroll in the area.

At the edge of the forests of the Jorat, about ten kilometres north of Lausanne, Montheron was chosen by Cistercian monks to establish a monastery on the edge of the Talent. It was then replaced, from 1536, by a reformed temple, restored in 2006. Now we have concerts, Gregorian chant in modern times, with a predilection for choral, vocal and organ music.

Inaugurated in 1954, the Théâtre de Beaulieu is the Swiss Hall with the largest seating area, with 1 845 seats. Many prestigious orchestras and theatre troops such as the Comédie-Française took place on this scene, as did Maurice Béjart, who presented his 1964 th century ballet (then based in Brussels) for the first time in. Today the Théâtre de Beaulieu welcomes concerts, operas, ballets and shows of varieties, as well as the Prix de Lausanne. He also presents the Opera shows, with the building being renovated until at least 2011.

L'Octogone théâtre de Pully offers 25 different shows a year, concerts and plays mainly from Paris, but it is above all one of the first institutions in French-speaking Switzerland to have reserved a special place for contemporary dance. For more than 15 years, it has boasted the presence of the greatest international choreographers such as Carolyn Carlson and William Forsythe. It also contributes to the promotion of local creations and offers the Linga company a residence within its walls.

Funplanet is a beautiful destination for spending a good time with your family, a huge leisure centre with a multitude of indoor activities, such as bowling, karting, fluorescent mini golf, billiards and various video games. Theme DJ parties are organized every week. In 2021, Funplanet returns after a complete renovation, with two new restaurants and a lounge bar at your disposal every evening. New activities are planned, including an area entirely dedicated to children under 12 years old: Funplanet Kids.

A historic tower that houses a nouvelle cuisine style restaurant. One can say that the entrance to the city is well guarded! Built in old stones and on five floors, its ascent will make you discover small universes favourable to the tasting of wines of the canton. The Molard Tower offers a new concept: it originated in China with the baozi, the famous and delicious steamed bun, to give birth to the bao burger. Based on rice flour and tapioca, we create bao burgers, meat or vegetarian.

To spend a very relaxed evening with friends, dance until the end of the night on disco air on the piano bar or rather "house" on the disco side with its DJ, the Trois-eight offers many possibilities for a mix of styles, ages and tastes. Vosu can also accompany the pianist with a live karaoke. The entrance to the night club and piano bar is free for the guests of the restaurant next to the nightclub. Free parking.

Set sail for the Navy for a culinary voyage of Swiss and Italian inspiration. In the heart of the old town and adjacent to the Syracuse pizzeria, the Navy-Syracuse is the anchorage of many Genevans. It is even a real institution! We suggest a trip to the land of local gastronomy. Dishes to be savoured on land, but in an all-wooden, old-rigged style decoration created in the 1950s. Here, we invite you to cast off for a nice time! It's cosy, convivial and comfortable.

A little corner of paradise on the lake with a magnificent view of the Jura. It is an ideal spot to relax, paddle (rented at the restaurant) and especially to eat on the natural terrace. Next to the restaurant, the Ripper is set up in a wooden hut and surrounded by palm trees. Almost like in the tropics! Pizzas, burgers, salads and house cocktails are served in a relaxed atmosphere. Theme nights and live music in summer.

A modern-day guinguette spirit, ideally installed on the left bank of the Rhône in fine weather. Floral ornaments are omnipresent, and you can sit back and contemplate the lake in this urban setting. It's the place to be for afterworks. The ephemeral long bar offers a range of snacks, including sandwiches and salads , and tastings of Geneva wines. The atmosphere is very peaceful, without being stuffy. It's a very pleasant spot on the riverbank, and very popular in summer for aperitifs!

One of the first places in Lausanne where culture replaced industry, in 1979, when theatre-makers gathered around Philippe Mentha founded the Théâtre Kléber-Méleau, which they built with their own hands in the building of a former gas factory in the industrial zone of Renens. As an advocate and promoter of the dramatic arts, the KTM has over the years been able to programme classic plays that attract a growing audience. It also offers a programme of classical and world music throughout the seasons.

Martine Jeanneret and Lova Golovtchiner have been programming top-quality comedy shows since 1970. Numerous Swiss and foreign artists have performed here, including Thierry Romanens, Jean-Luc Bideau and the Mummenschanz. In its more than fifty years of existence, the Boulimie theater has always remained true to its primary vocation: the illustration and defense of humor in all its forms. The theater has staged plays by Eugène Ionesco, Boris Vian and Woody Allen. Book early, as the theater sells out fast.

The Grange de Dorigny is the theatre of the University of Lausanne, a place where art meets academia, a meeting place for the public of the university site and the city. About ten professional theatre performances are presented there each season, as well as a multidisciplinary student festival. The programme is innovative and varied. Students also perform in concerts and there is a bar and exhibition rooms in the foyer (open an hour before and after the performances), all in a very pleasant, airy setting.

Why 2.21? This strange name corresponds to the number once assigned to a truck repair shop. This space was annotated on a plan linked to the urbanization of Lausanne. Since then, the theater has taken on a personality of its own, one that honors creativity and freedom of expression, a theater open to various genres: musical, concert, reading, improv... The joy of getting up on stage, performing, telling your story... Two rooms are dedicated to the creations of young professional companies and to a more musical and eclectic program (comedy, cabaret, dance).

The Théâtre de Beausobre offers a varied program of shows: theater, comedy, magic, musical theater, song, world music, opera, gospel... The program is varied (we invite you to browse its website to find out what's on during your visit), and both well-known and up-and-coming artists take center stage. In May and June, the town hosts a popular international comedy festival, Morges-sous-Rire. And of course, it's in this beautiful theater that it all happens!

Make way for contemporary dance in all its splendour! In 1995, choreographer Philippe Saire inaugurated the Théâtre Sévelin 36. Every year, this space hosts various events devoted exclusively to contemporary dance ballets, including the Festival international de danse de Lausanne and the Printemps de Sévelin festival in March. The company also takes part in annual events such as the Fête de la Danse, the fête du slip (!) Les Urbaines... It also organizes meetings between young choreographers in Les Quarts d'heure platforms.

For the record, the Salle Métropole - now a listed building - is housed in the Bel Air tower, completed in 1934. At sixteen storeys high, it is still "Switzerland's oldest skyscraper". Renovated in 1995, the hall hosts concerts by the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, pop, rock, rap and French chanson artists, one-man shows, classical and contemporary ballets and the Metropop Festival. The program is available on the website or directly from the box office.

An orchestra of young professionals, the Sinfonietta de Lausanne performs mainly at the Salle Métropole and Salle Paderewski (Montbenon Casino). It specializes in themed concerts, which are very popular with children. In all, each year it presents programs of chamber music, symphonies for full orchestra, operas, film music and comedy shows. In summer, it offers free open-air concerts in the Parc Mon Repos.

World music and jazz versions: a truly successful cocktail. Located under the Mon-Repos park, this jazz club is a very convivial address where the greatest musicians as well as lesser-known groups come to play. You enter the first room, where you'll find the bar and a few tables for refreshments before the concert begins. Often seated at the next table, the musicians then take to the stage, while spectators descend a few steps and take their places around the tables, ordering a glass of wine.

It's an adorable Lilliputian-sized theater offering fairy-tale, poetic puppet shows for children aged 4 and over (accompanied by an adult). A fairy-tale world is created, sprinkled with touches of humor, fear and suspense, and the plays tackle serious educational themes, with philo workshops every Sunday on really interesting topics. A great time for colorful puppet shows and excellent teaching.

Founded over two hundred years ago by Friedrich Knie, in 1803 to be exact, the Swiss National Circus is one of the oldest in Europe. Every year, it plants its big top on Place Bellerive, with its share of acrobats, animals, clowns and comedians. It is undoubtedly the most beautiful circus in Switzerland, which performs every year in its shows. The acts are designed to surprise the audience in terms of innovation and action. To renew itself, the circus does not hesitate to make beautiful collaborations as well as to propose tours all over Switzerland.

The Starling Geneva hotel's C bar & lounge is a very designer place to start or extend the evening over a drink while enjoying Fabrizzini 's, a speciality of the chef Fabrizio Domilici, which accompany the inventive cocktails with or without alcohol offered at the bar. In a subdued atmosphere with a refined design, you are in an elegant and spacious universe, ideal for sharing an aperitif before sitting down to eat. The place can be entirely privatized for events. Free transfer service to the airport until 11:45 pm.

Occupying the top floor of the Balexert shopping mall, this is the largest cinema in Switzerland. Food court at the entrance. The latest American blockbusters, new releases and international hits are shown. Booster seats for children, birthday packages and private screenings for companies. For 5- to 12-year-olds, there's the junior cinema club, which you simply have to sign up for to be invited to previews and other activities... A large-scale cinema, classic in its uniformity, that can be found all over the world

A bit offbeat and mysterious, if you fall for crazy places, the Kraken Bar will fill you with the mythological spirit it contains. Originally, the Kraken is a fantastic creature from medieval Scandinavian legends who seized the hulls of ships to capsize them, sinking the sailors. In Plainpalais, there is nothing so frightening. The bar offers a warm and friendly atmosphere in a subdued atmosphere. Between libraries, old ornate books and decorative skulls.

The biggest bowling alley in Geneva. On the top floor of the La Praille shopping centre, 3,000 m² dedicated to leisure activities with family or friends: 26 bowling lanes, 8 billiard tables, table tennis, rooms for interactive games, solarium, wi-fi zone, and the Safari Cocktail Bar. The place is suitable for company parties, birthdays and other events. It is very popular for indoor leisure activities in the middle of winter and for fun evenings with the family. Extend your outing by enjoying a snack at the bar or a small cocktail with friends.

This is the place of predilection for an artistic and gastronomic evening. The terrace of the 3 Glasses is unmistakable summer and winter with its shrubs and its bright red blinds. Les Trois Verres, as its name suggests, is an oenotheque where we suggest you close your eyes and travel through all the regions of Italian wines. A wide choice of wine bottles, as well as wines by the glass and also wine discoveries. An address of undeniable quality to combine aperitif tasting and nibbling some tapas.

Before or after a gourmet evening in one of the countless restaurants on the rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, the Café du Bout d'la Rue will whet your appetite and perhaps continue the party in one of the nearby nightclubs such as La Gravière or La Parfumerie. This bar with a sober and classy decoration, with black walls where the multiple names of shots and beers are written, is very popular with students (very close universities). Your taste buds will be in effervescence to identify all the ingredients.

Le Temps d'une Pause combines all the pleasures for gourmet readers and gourmands alike! Immersed in a decor of books, you can quietly enjoy your cappuccino while devouring the lines of your novel...

Located in the heart of the Pâquis, the Boléro bar is unique. Its baroque decoration with bright colors, its paintings of mythical American actresses such as Marylin Monroe or Audrey Hepburn or the cool and lively atmosphere make this place an ideal and friendly place to go for a drink on the terrace in the summer, a beer with friends or the very good and beautiful cocktails that make the reputation of the house. The establishment offers good cigars. Cocktails certainly enticing, but also cigars to be discovered.

We had spotted it at its beginnings and it has become a royal place for those who love conviviality and Italian delicacy. In addition to finding all the equipment to relive at home the intensity of the coffee from its Neapolitan roaster, you will enjoy on the spot cappuccinos, espressos and even a homemade Italian-style catering of course (minestrone, parmigiana...). It has also become the den of good after-works with the possibility of sipping very good cocktails at very convenient prices for the city.

Red for a winegrower it's not something you can make up! In the heart of Epesses, the Rouge family, rooted in this exceptional terroir, offers you this new space, open in 2015. On the programme: a gourmet stopover in a magnificent bar for a coffee, a glass of wine or a small snack (also to take away), an ideal base camp to enjoy the magnificent vineyard in the heart of the Lavaux. Summer and winter alike, it's a pleasant rendez-vous where you can enjoy a delicious meal of charcuterie (Martin à Puidoux) that goes wonderfully well with one of the Lavaux vintages.

Just a stone's throw from the station is a bar where you can relax, drink and eat quality pizzas and burgers without breaking the bank. The setting is very pleasant, with a lovely wooded, designer decor and a beautiful library, making you want to stop in at any time of day. The dishes are tasty and well served. Accompanied by one of the many beers on offer, your evening is sure to be a festive one! The volume of sound is high, so it's ideal for those who want to go wild. At weekends, the place goes on fire, and the room transforms into a dancefloor.

A wine bar in a 200 year old building! The main thing is not to have a profusion of choice but a selection of very good quality wines. Here, the focus is on the origin and wines of well-known producers. Particular attention is given to organic farming. With your tasting of savoury sandwiches, allow yourself a moment of pure red delight of this sweet nectar.

In the heart of Carouge, an enviable place overlooking the market. Al Mercato makes you want to meet and share an aperitif. It is also an ideal place to taste fresh pasta. When the weather is fine, the terrace is ideal for meeting and chatting.

We can organize aperitifs well in advance or just meet at the Imprévu for more spontaneity! It's a nice place to share tapas and delicious cocktails while chatting quietly.

Beneath the pines that emancipate themselves thanks to the clement climate of the Riviera, it is pleasant to end the day in a retro and trendy place. The Montreux Eurotel and its lounge bar the Purple Fish are among these places. In the summer we let ourselves go sipping cocktails while awakening our senses to the rhythm of the ambient live music: Friday and Saturday, from 5.30 pm to 8.30 pm, it's live music or DJ. In winter, the magic happens under the dome which welcomes us in a ephemeral way. A place that changes with the seasons so that we never relive the same moment!

The BDG is a friendly, welcoming place to have an aperitif, dinner with music, listen to live music or dance. Several animations and evenings are organised at the weekends around a wide variety of musical styles. Thus, depending on the evening, you will go to the BDG for funk, soul, "acid jazz," or for more latino rhythms and salsa... Thursday is blues live night because the BDG is the place where the Blues Association of Geneva (BAG) organizes concerts and jam sessions from 8:30 pm. A good sport for music lovers, between blues and jazz.

An air of saudade and a little trip to Portugal, an atmosphere reflected in the azulejos typical of Portuguese restaurants. These tiles on the blue-and-white walls represent Lausanne in 1850. A lively place with a full terrace, summer and winter alike, Le P'tit Central serves seasonal daily specials at lunchtime, and a small à la carte menu in the evening. And don't forget the cocktails, aperitifs and various craft beers. Excellent service and good food. From Thursday to Saturday, we offer after-work evenings or "soirées tout court".

The Rocking Chair, better known as the RKC, is a concert hall dedicated to contemporary music. The place welcomes both local groups and established international artists, such as IAM, Amadou & Mariam, K'S Choice or Sinclair

Right in the center of town but relatively quiet, a lovely terrace overlooks a cobbled courtyard, very pleasant in fine weather; a colorful decor and an excellent welcome set the scene. This bistro serves Swiss and French cuisine, with the occasional dish from the other side of the world. The extensive drinks menu features Swiss and international wines, as well as a whole range of craft beers. Regularly renewed menus: an excellent idea for a break, whatever the time of day.

La Comédie de la Gare is a partner of the Uptown Geneva - Business & Arts Center, with 3 concert halls: Rive (160 seats), Broadway (460 seats) and Concorde (a modular hall ideal for presentations and receptions). There's also a lounge bar and a richly diverse program of concerts, events and comedy shows. A partnership that's sure to appeal to Genevans! An idea for going out to see comedies. Some of them are very well written.

The theater is worth a visit for its unique layout and architecture! The building, constructed in 1907, belonged to the Plainpalais town hall. The venue is mainly used for music and film festivals, as well as concerts throughout the year. The cinema hall is particularly spacious, and there's no shortage of room for dancing at concerts either. Entertainment guaranteed! On the first floor, rooms are available for concerts, parties and other cultural events. The cinema is on the second floor.

The Grancy's festive and urban little brother, the Saint Pierre will delight Mr. Eames fans with its multicoloured Scandinavian fibreglass chairs. For the others, a tempting cocktail menu, a nice glimpse of the local offer of artisanal beers, fresh and original lunch proposals, a weekend brunch to knock the most patachon among you out of bed and, every evening, tapas until late!

In a room intended for the offices of a company specializing in computers, a new Internet café has sprung up near Uni Dufour and Uni Bastions. Convenient! 30 min connection for 3 CHF, 5 CHF for 60 min and subscription formula. A dozen computers are available for network games or sending emails in a very friendly atmosphere. This nice space works without any real lucrative purpose, the coffee being a supplement to their real activity in engineering and sale of computer products. Fax, photocopier, black and white printer.