10 Dec

After getting the souvenir from Swisslion we got dinner at Migros, which was a small mall with a florist, gift shop, supermarket and café/bakery. Migros also have petrol stations and kiosks. They had different pastas (10-13CHF), pastries, roast pork, chicken, salads, slices of tart (3.50CHF) including rhubarb. A2 had a spinach and ricotta pastry, mum and dad shared ½ a roast chicken (8CHF), creamy pasta with spinach and two types of roast pork. One tasted like ham and looked a bit like char siu; the other was just...

16:00 / Food / Lucerne / Migros / Restaurants / Switzerland / Travel
10 Dec

Later I began looking for a bakery from which to purchase lunch. I settled on Heini: Eine Torten, which had at least four outlets in the small area that we walked around in today. I had trouble choosing between a long rolled pastry with hazelnut filling and an almond croissant so I bought both for 4 something CHF together. I thought eating the sweet things would be more interesting than trying bread loaves that were huge and I didn’t know what they were anyway. I wasn’t about to...

15:53 / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Heini Bakery / Lucerne / Restaurants / Switzerland / Travel
10 Dec

At the train station there was a stall selling one of the Swiss national dishes where a big block of cheese is heated and the melted cheese is scraped off and put on bread/vegetables etc. One slice of bread with cheese was 8CHF and I wasn’t interested in it because it was just cheese on toast. If I was going to try a cheesy dish it would have been fondue. Unfortunately mum kept saying ‘Want to try? Want to try?’ so the man thought we wanted it and...

15:52 / Dessert/Sweets / Lucerne / Misc European / Swiss / Switzerland / Train Station / Travel
10 Dec

Near the train station was a chain bakery called Bachmann, which sold macarons (Luxemburgerli brand). We thought we’d try them here to compare to Lauduree ones. I bought 4 macarons; chocolate, praline, raspberry and cinnamon/plum for 3.90CHF. The raspberry one wasn’t nice, the chocolate one was like eating a chocolate truffle. The others were nice. The exchange rate is currently 0.89AUD to 1CHF and the service charge was 4CHF. I think the average food price is 20-30CHF. [gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="2"]...

15:52 / Bachmann Bakery / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Lucerne / Restaurants / Switzerland / Travel
09 Dec

Dinner at the hotel consisted of a salad with light dressing, grilled and lightly battered Parnasius fillet (a type of fish) in a creamy/cheese sauce (though the menu said light lemon dressing) and a piece of apple strudel with hot vanilla sauce. The pastry in the strudel was a bit too thick and it wasn’t hot; there were also raisins in it, so I didn’t finish mine. [caption id="attachment_2228" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Lightly Battered Parnasius Fillet w. Creamy Sauce[/caption]...

15:47 / Food / Hotel Astoria / Lucerne / Restaurants / Switzerland / Travel
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