The best grocery stores Switzerland

For a Dolce Vita-style break and a taste of Italian coffee in the Market Square, Al Mercato is the place to be. The menu offers tempting salads and homemade pastas , to be enjoyed on the spot or to take away. The place is peaceful, welcoming and the products are very fresh. The smells and flavours project us into a Mediterranean atmosphere and awaken our taste buds. The salads are always very tasty. In the summer, the terrace promises good times and beautiful starry evenings with an Italian wine.

An institution of local gastronomy! Chez Blanc is the ideal place to learn about local cuisine and stock up on the region's specialties, all prepared in the traditional way. From the region's small producers, jambon à la borne, meringues, bricelets, poires à botzi... will delight your taste buds. A wide range of delicacies await you on site, from full menus to tasting plates. Events are organized to showcase local know-how. It's the embassy of local good taste!

The local products of the fine grocery of the Molard butcher's shop are really envious: foie gras, truffles, giant crabs, oils, mustards, spices, Italian cakes, doves, panetone and chocolates. Everything is provided to accompany the delicatessen dishes of the butcher's shop. Luxury products are also present: caviar, Balik smoked salmon, in partnership with Caviar House and Prunier. And to accompany them: Swiss and foreign wines selected with the usual care at home. Enough to prepare a good picnic basket.

You'll quickly spot the store: a life-size cow, under the arches, keeps watch in front of the entrance. Like sheep feasting on grass in a meadow, as shown on the online site, the tone is set: everything is natural. Local produce, bread, charcuterie, cheeses (vacuum-packed if required), wine, liqueurs, delicatessen, jams, oil, herbal teas, pasta, baskets - in short, all the specialties of the Vaud region, direct from local producers. An excellent address.

Departure to the four corners of the world in the field of gastronomy: colors, aromas, it's an Ali Baba's cave version of an international showcase. Colors from South America, spices from the East and North Africa, Europe, Asia, North America. We're addressing the nutritional world of tomorrow, when proteins will be represented, among other things, by insects. Why not try a burger made with plant proteins or a dried grasshopper?

In the basement, a design area dedicated to good products awaits you. In a carnotzet (cellar), the wooden crates line up: whiskies (300 brands), whites, reds and producer wines. Further down the aisles and in each section, whether it's tea, chocolate or spices, a breathtaking selection of prestigious brands makes your head spin. The house brand Delicatessa is no exception in this luxurious universe. Even the most basic products, such as salt, oils, vinegars or pasta, are so well presented that it's hard not to fill your basket..

A small delicatessen located in an alley in the old town. The tender bread is home-made and is deliciously combined with grilled vegetables, cut meat (optional) and mozzarella cheese. To extend this generous tasting of cuisine to your home, a wide range of take-away dishes await you: pasta prepared with various sauces, succulent desserts: fruit salad, mascarpone, tiramisu. And if you have decided to cook yourself, nothing prevents you from tasting its tasty pasta with truffles.

The large wicker olive harvest baskets and lavender bouquets sing the South in this shop with its sloping ceiling on the Place de Bourg-de-Four. Specialists in Mediterranean oils and products, Oliviers&Co has built its world around the olive, which is found in many different forms. Quality products are rare, such as black or white truffles, parmesan, candied lemons, anchovy cream, pistachios or Orleans mustard, whose recipes have been developed by internationally renowned chefs.

Are you looking for fine gastronomy and voluptuousness? Caviar House et Prunier is a reference in Geneva, a sober luxury case, dressed in black and white, for this caviar that quietly waits for maturation, exposed in a glass room, in the center of the store. The sturgeons are bred by the company and as a guarantee of quality, one can witness the stages the eggs go through before being savored. Baltic salmon, caviar, truffle oil to sharpen your palate. For a gastronomic break, Caviar House and Prunier offers two Seafood Bar.

Thierry Jeantet, Head Sommelier for 8 years, knows all the subtleties of wine. His interpersonal skills with the winegrowers, his knowledge of oenology and his taste for quality and good products make him the ambassador of the Châteauvieux grocery store. A merit that Philippe Chevrier very quickly recognized and from their association was born the Epicerie sur le domaine de Châteauvieux. It is with conviction and passion that Thierry describes the products in his shop: spices, mustards and vinegars but also jams, homemade chocolates, biscuits, terrines, pâtés and homemade foie gras and of course a very refined selection of wines. Geneva wines elaborated with the winemaker Nicolas Bonnet (the only one to sell in the shop in the whole of Geneva) and the winemakers of the Cave de Genève are part of his selection. In order to prolong the pleasures of Philippe Chevrier's table, the entire range of the estate's artisanal products is available in the grocery store. It is also a gourmet stopover to shop for good products.

Looking at the stalls in front of the Monte Bianco, and entering the establishment, you will discover a fine Italian delicatessen with a warm atmosphere, which also does small catering in the tradition of Italian trattorias.