Factory

In Flavil one can visit the most modern Swiss chocolate factory!
Maestrani - chocolate art since over 150 years - is one of the leading suppliers of finest Swiss chocolate. Independent and traditional chocolate producer with 180 employees in the heart of beautiful Eastern Switzerland.

Exhibition Dairy which can be observed from the cozy restaurant. Sun terrace, cheese maturing cellar and children's playground.

Just imagine being able to make your own soft cheese in a huge copper kettle over an open fire! This is what you can do at Hemishofen, an organic farm where you can learn how to lend your cheese its own special flavour and how to refine it with herbs. You can also churn your own butter and sample it on freshly made bread. And those wanting something to wash it down with can help themselves to a glass of fresh milk by milking one of the farm’s many forbearing cows!

Not the animals, of course, but a kind of gingerbread which is a speciality of Canton Appenzell. And because Biber – the German word for beavers – taste best when you make them yourself, it helps to watch a master baker at work and take your cues from him. With your beavers in the oven, you can watch the local wood carver fashioning a typical Appenzell cutting board, which like the beavers you will be able to take home with you.