Local Producers

Founded in 1870, the Etter Distillery produces the world famous Zug cherry and fruit spirits. It is a captivating and fascinating experience to take a look behind the scenes.

Polenta has a long tradition in Ticino and has been a staple food for a significant part of the population for centuries. Today, a genuine Ticino polenta cooked on an outdoor fire or in a fireplace is no longer so very common. Fortunately, there are many grottoes and Ticino restaurants which propose this traditional dish every day to their customers, prepared on a crackling fire as tradition requires.

The Bakery school offers you the opportunity to create all sorts of pizza treats with our specialists.

This estate is home to the first rice fields in Switzerland. There is plenty more to discover besides, including a wine shop and farm. Tours available for groups of 10 or more.

For centuries the ownership of salt mines meant wealth and power. The salt deposits at Bex, discovered in the 15th century, are still mined today. The salt mines are accessible to visitors, a museum depicts the mining of salt from 1684 to the present.

The true treasures of the Lake Geneva Region are wine, cheese and other fine food products: most are available at these taste-tempting shops.

The highest situated coffee roasting plant in Europe - Café Badilatti Discover how coffee came to be roasted here. Not only its location, but its level of coffee production is set on a high level. During an approx. hour-long guided tour you can not only visit the roasting plant and taste a number of different blends but will also get to know more about the fascinating and sensual world of the stimulating black coffee bean in the firm’s own coffee museum “Caferama”.

Numerous specialties are produced in the innovative alpine cheese dairy in Marbach, many of which are certified as “Echt Entlebuch – Made in Entlebuch”. The products are made from buffalo milk, which makes them something very special. The cheese dairy’s owners, the Jaun family, were the first in Switzerland to process buffalo milk and also produced the first buffalo mozzarella to be made in Switzerland.

Each Saturday, people come together to enjoy the colourful weekly market that stretches from Piazza Nosetto to the alleyways of the old town.

Genuine Valais raw milk cheese is produced with great care from traditional recipes.

“Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth is lying.” (Graffiti scrawled on a wall ). Every Swiss child would agree: their favourite afternoon snack has always been bread and chocolate. During the more than 400 years since Columbus became the first European to see cocoa beans, Switzerland has come to the forefront of chocolate manufacturing worldwide. Swiss chocolatiers have created such delights as truffles, pralines, cakes, and mousses (enough to make a Swiss child forget about the bread ) … Swiss chocolate is great on its own, or with an espresso, a sweet wine, whisky or a Cognac, and on any conceivable occasion. For more on the subject, see: www.chocosuisse.ch