Historic restaurants

Historic dining room in the UNESCOprotected abbey district, serving delicious dishes featuring local products.

Historic restaurant in Basel’s Old Town with courtyard terrace, serving fresh cuisine and a wide choice of wines and beers.

Medieval mansion of the spice traders: historical guild hall, cosy chambers and restaurant, serving fine cuisine.

14th-century moated castle serving fine cuisine to up to 250 guests in a variety of romantic rooms.

In the atmospheric setting of the Castelgrande, a masterful blend of medieval military engineering and modern architecture, stands the eponymous restaurant, opened in 1991. Meals are served on the panoramic terraces, in banqueting rooms and the traditional Ticino grotto (tavern), as well as in the exclusive restaurant itself.

Period house, with panelled rooms, hall and barn. View of the lake and the Alpstein. Superb cuisine.

A restaurant since 1805, the Urwaldhaus serves everything from house-marinated salmon to tripe and a menu gastronomique.

In a half-timbered house in the abbey district, the “golden lion” specializes in homebrewed beer and Chäschüechli cheese pie.

Members of the city guilds liked to come here more than 500 years ago; today you can still dine exceptionally well.

Restored patrician house with three small dining rooms, and a cellar room with open fire: warm, welcoming atmosphere.