This restaurant was recommended by our tour guide, so I was skeptical, but it exceeded our expectations! Service was great (I think our server was Alan?). Husband and I shared the fondue and rosti with an egg and more cheese (don't judge us). Both were wonderful, and we left really full. We had a Swiss pinot noir, which was surprisingly very good (around 70 SF). Restaurant was very quaint, and the restroom was clean. Reservations recommended read more

Restaurant Elsbethenstübli - Rosti with egg and cheese - Swiss Food Near Me - Basel, BS

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We stepped in off the street with no reservations on a warm June summer evening... And we were amazed with the service and the food. This 400-year-old restaurant is still in business serving traditional Swiss/Basel fondue cheese dish. The texture and taste were incredible. I ordered the traditional veal and potato, that was complemented with a mushroom sauce. Highly recommended! We ended with a plum sorbet with cognac. The perfect ending for the evening. Stop to get a feel of the traditional Swiss dinner. read more

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Beautiful restaurant, great food. Highly recommended. We shared the speciality fondu along with a couple of salads.

We are from Chicago and we're here for business and pleasure both. This place was recommended to us and did not disappoint. Delicious cheese fondue -this is not cheez whiz folks - and a great wine list. The place is not small but is cozy so I recommend reservations. Thank you to the kind servers who squeezed us in nonetheless. Great food, great atmosphere and great service. read more

Excellent place to experience Swiss cuisine and hospitality. Great selection of Swiss wines. Lovely dinner. We had the cheese fondue - large for two. Better shared with four. Also ordered the rosti - one with veal strips the other with mixed meat and egg on top. Loved them both. Go early to avoid crowds. Easy walking distance from the tram. read more

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Food was outstanding. Service was great and the atmosphere wonderful. The waiter recommended a bottle of wine we really enjoyed and can't find back home. read more

Recommended by our hotel and within walking distance so works for me! Onion soup very nice! Fondue for one is $28 Swiss francs and serves two just fine. Waiter recommended more but portion was perfect. Ordered the potatoes additional but wish we hadn't. Nice walk back through park to hotel Victoria next to train station. Perfect interlude in Basel!. read more

We happened on this restaurant our first night in Basel, and liked it so much we went back for dinner a second time. It features classic Swiss food, all freshly prepared and full of flavor. We loved every dish we tried. Be sure to try the Rossti, a classic fried potato cake. The restaurant has a charming, relaxed vibe, and the staff is friendly and helpful. Service was excellent. I am not sure why other reviewers have complained about the English language skills of the wait staff; they were quite adequate. I went back alone for lunch one day, while my husband was at a conference. The 3 course lunch prix fixe was far more food than I wanted, but the waiter cheerfully went to his boss and then gave me a reduced price to have only the risotto and a salad, both of which were scrumptious. Best food we had in Basel. read more

Restaurant Elsbethenstübli - The veal cordon bleu - Swiss Food Near Me - Basel, BS

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Dined at the recommendation of Annette, Viking cruise guide stationed at Movenpick. We split an order of Fondue - exquisite! Alan, waiter who was fantastic, suggested we try veal cordon bleu and fitness salad with grilled chicken breast that had a curry sauce. We requested a different sauce, they did a buttery sauce with hint of lemon that was superb. I had a couple of glasses of house wine. Dinner was $145. euros...but it was an unforgettable experience. We were early and had the place to ourselves for almost an hour and they were so lovely we dined there the next night, swapping out the orders. The fitness salad was out of this world, oh and the dressing... read more

We went eating there for a dinner on a wednesday night Food: very good swiss food! there are a lot of tourists at this place but it still keeps its swissness. Service: the service was overall nice. they made us change tables and we couldnt pay by card because the systems werent working. no problem for me but the reason why i gave 3 stars is because the waiter we had was kind of sassy (which i really dont like at all) and he was always kinda pushing us to buy more like "oh so you dont take a starter?" "no wine for you then?" "is it ok like that for the bill or do you want change back?" if youre a tourist and want enjoy some good food yes go there. i probably wouldnt because i dont want to deal with the waiter anymore... but the food is very good! read more

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Visited this restaurant for a birthday in the group and was absolutely shocked by the service of the waiter. dont get me wrong, the fondue was absolutely amazing but it pretty much ruined the experience for me with his disgusting attitude. he was pushing the most expensive wine onto us and did not let us order the 2 fondues he wanted, saying there was a "minimum" but increased it every time we asked. if there truly was a minimum, it should be listed somewhere in the restaurant. he didnt even attempt to clarify or be patient with us, and it just added to the frustration on both sides. the atmosphere would have been great otherwise, if not for that awful waiter. read more

This restaurant is a tourist trap and especially if you are on a Viking cruise. We had a reservation for two. When we walked in, the pushy owner said all Viking people sit together at tables with paper table cloths. Other people had cloth table cloth, flowers, lamps, and a nice table for two which is what we asked for but, were treated like cattle instead. The onion soup was packaged onion soup like Lipton soup with a tiny sprinkle of cheese. It was not good. Very cheaply made food. The chicken dish was a bland dry chicken breast and a large pile of plain white noodles. There was one tablespoon of sauce under the chicken breast. The chicken dish was flavorless, dry, and bland. One person ordered water so, the owner gave him a liter size bottle and charged him $10. The owner was telling us how good the food was but, unfortunately, it wasn't good. He kept pushing Limoncello on everyone acting as if he was giving it out but, it was just another tactic to drive the bill up. The owner doesn't need to care about repeat customers so, is serving food on the cheap to tourists. read more

While the fondue itself was good, I was taken for a ride a little. To echo previous reviews, they will overcharge EVEN when you try to be specific. My friend and I asked for 1 order of fondue, even holding up one finger to make sure we were entirely clear. However, when the bill arrived, we were charged $57 for the fondue and bread even though one serving (like we indicated we wanted) only cost $28. We felt like we had been take advantage of, being young American tourists, one of us I might add, is deaf. All in all, the food was okay but if you come here MAKE SURE TO BE OVERLY SPECIFIC because they will overcharge. read more

We recently visited this restaurant while on vacation because I wanted fondue! I found the service to be very good and the food was excellent, but we did wind up with a bit too much food and one item slightly wrong. I also thought the wine was pricey ($40 CHF for a small bottle of house wine?) so our total cost was quite high due to the 4 of us sharing 2 bottles of wine - as I mentioned these bottles are smaller than a traditional bottle of wine. We started off with a bowl of French onion soup (around $8) which I thought was quite tasty, as well as splitting two of the beef tartare appetizers. It was a good sized portion of beef so we maybe could have just shared one between the 4 of us but it was good anyways! Don't recall the price, unfortunately. Because we had the appetizers, we opted for the fondue with only enough for 3 people and we still had extra fondue so if you go with a group and get appetizers you might even just be able to share the amount for 2 people! The fondue is served just with bread cubes, but it was very filling, I believe it was approximately $22 per person. We also asked for one small portion (for $6-7 IIRC) of the raclette (thicker cheese served with potatoes, onion and pickle) but he served us instead the large portion for ($19) which is a significant price difference and wasn't what we had asked for. I am not the type of person to send things back or complain when something is just a little bit wrong, so we ate it anyways, but I really preferred the taste of the Swiss Fondue instead. So, I would recommend the Swiss cheese Fondue over the Raclette. The Fondue is served in a pot over a small flame so it stayed warm and bubbly, but the raclette was served on a plate so it cooled off very quickly and was not as enjoyable as the fondue. We were stuffed so didn't get any dessert! If we are in Basel again I would definitely return here, the fondue was so delicious! read more

My friend and I came here for a light dinner -- some Swiss fondue to try for the experience. The waiter hardly speaks English, so I made sure to order ONE serving of fondue for us to share. I used hand gestures to point out that we wanted ONE serving. When we got the check, we were charged for two servings. It seems to me that he took advantage of the language barrier and overcharged us. Also, the food wasn't that great, definitely not worth the overcharge. read more

We came to this restaurant because it was close and our 1st choice wasn't open. We were so glad we did. The food was AMAZING!! We had a bottle of local red wine. I had the salmon and my relatives had steak. It was probably the best I ever had!! They agreed! The prices of our meals was around $35-$40. Very much worth the price! read more

Horrible Service! We called on the phone to this rude guy. We tried to make a reservation, and all was good until we mentioned the 2 kids. It got downhill from there. He didn't understand us and his English skills were poor. (Or at least he pretended like he didn't understand us) We had been there before and we said we didn't want to sit next to the toilet. He then just had this nasty attitude and said "We can't do that for you." We thought he didn't understand us, so we repeated ourselves again that we don't want to sit next to the toilet. He then got angry due to the misunderstanding and said "Okay then we don't do the reservation, bye! And then he just hung up. We decided at the end of the call not to go there! We then found another place. They can definitely do better. Not impressed.... read more

Incredible restaurant in a lovely setting. The service was excellent and so was the food. The swiss fondue was the best i have ever had. Highly recommend. read more

We are lovers of fondue and this restaurant does not disappoint! We arrived an hour earlier than our reservation but were seated despite the fact that they were expecting 80 people for a reserved event. Service was excellent--attentive, not overbearing. Food was wonderful and yes, pricey but this is Switzerland... We would definitely return and recommend without hesitation. read more

Incredible fondue! Also got the rosti which was very good. Service was great and personal - even though I didn't order off the lunch menu (I wanted fondue!), they brought me a free dessert. Would love to try other things on the menu if I ever return to Basel. read more

Heinous service. I believe the waiter's name was Andre, run as far away as you can if he is your server! A group of friends and I were traveling in Switzerland and decided to dine at this restaurant for a birthday in the group. It was clear they were trying to take advantage of us as a larger group of younger woman. After sitting down for 5 minutes, the most expensive bottle of house wine was being pushed on us after repeatedly telling our RUDE waiter that only a few girls wanted one glass. Was this man trying to get a group of girls drunk??? Anyways, we attempted to order 2 fondues for the table. Big mistake. Our waiter told us there was a 'minimum' number of fondues that needed to be ordered, and kept increasing that minimum as time went on. "Two need to be order...three...four...." sir I don't think so! We finally got him to agree in ordering us 3, then he tried to push ANOTHER entree on us that we did not order. He acted like we were idiots and made our group feel unwelcome. His eyes rolled so many times at us I swore they were going to fall out of his head! He reluctantly put in the food we actually ordered, and yelled at the birthday girl in our group saying "he doesn't usually do this" you don't usually take care of your guests and put in what they actually ordered?? Unbelievable. We were served and never checked up on. We could not leave that restaurant fast enough, and ran out of there like the fondue was aflame. Needless to say, a nice birthday dinner was ruined for our friend, and an evening was ruined for the rest of us. An experience we were all excited for was quickly ruined by the poor service at this establishment. Fondue was okay, not worth the trouble. read more