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What to eat in Switzerland

The 10 best dishes in Switzerland

Mountain cheese, potatoes and chocolate, with French, German and Italian kitchens in one country.

1

Fondue

Best: Fribourg and Vaud

Gruyère and vacherin melted with white wine, scooped up on bread.

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2

Raclette

Best: Valais

Cheese melted by the fire and scraped over potatoes with pickles.

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3

Rösti

Best: Bern

Grated potato fried in butter into a golden cake.

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4

Zürcher Geschnetzeltes

Best: Zurich

Sliced veal in cream and mushroom sauce with rösti.

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5

Älplermagronen

Best: The Alps

Pasta, potatoes, cheese and cream with applesauce on the side.

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6

Birchermüesli

Best: Zurich

Oats soaked overnight with apple and yogurt, invented by a Swiss doctor.

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Basler Läckerli

Best: Basel

Hard honey-spice biscuits with candied peel.

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8

Zuger Kirschtorte

Best: Zug

Kirsch-soaked sponge with nut meringue and buttercream.

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9

Malakoff

Best: Vaud

Fried cheese balls from the shores of Lake Geneva.

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10

Swiss chocolate

Eaten all over Switzerland

Milk chocolate was perfected here; eat it from a chocolatier, not a factory shop.

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Photos: each dish's lead photo on its Wikipedia article (license and author on Wikimedia Commons); "a photo like it" is a food photo of the same kind, not that dish. Cook it opens a recipe in Chef Amazing, or Chef writes one for you. Picked by Chef Amazing, November 2026.