We were in Bern for vacation and a friend of us took us to this magical place. This is a MUST VISIT if you are in Switzerland!! I kid you not, we would go back again just to eat there again, and we are coming from the US!!! Since life is short we decided to taste the whole menu and ordered a nice bottles of wine. Everything was amazing from beginning to end, the server and wine director very friendly and knowledgeable. And the ambiance is just a mixture of Brooklyn, LA, Mexico City, and Berlin! Everything is decorated with such simplicity that the only thing you can do is focus on the food and drinks. 100% the best ambiance in the whole Switzerland !! Can't wait to be back there soon! read more

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This is a great place to come with your friends to hang out or solo tourist (like me) to come to join a few beer. Not so far from Bern Station catch tram # 9 get of at Victoria... Easy to find ... This is where locals hang out at night ... expect high volume on Friday or Saturday Night ... Food good Beer Good and All Locals... This is used to be Fire Station and now turn to be Bar and Restaurant ... Loves it here read more

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The place looks pretty cool, your typical hipster bar restaurant that's very much en vogue at the moment, where no two pieces of furniture match each other, but somehow as whole, it works and it has a pleasant vibe. And the staff is friendly. And that's it. Otherwise it would get 1 star. The food is just not good. But boy is it trying to be! The concept of the place is, you order a bunch of small dishes to share (think tapas), there are no "main courses". But it simply doesn't taste like much. It looks original, there are certainly combinations of ingredients that seem novel. But it's pretty bland. We had an onsen tamago (Japanese soft boiled egg), and for that one egg, you pay $17 (15.5 Swiss Francs). Yep. And I mean, it's a nice egg but, come on, it's a soft boiled egg! It's Japanese street food. I don't know how nice an egg would have to be, to be worth 17$, but this ain't it. Then we had a carrot dish with hazelnut cream and cilantro. Again, yes it's a somewhat creative combo, but just boring. Four pieces of carrot for $16. Even if the cuisine is a bit original, these ingredients are just really inexpensive, so it becomes really hard to justify the price. Then we ordered a "Schnitzel" (breaded cutlet, typical of Vienna). We had been to Vienna recently and I knew not to expect the same here, cause they liked to do everything "different" here. But I was wrong. This was just a really bad Schnitzel. The breading seemed damp, like it had been sitting in the kitchen all afternoon and then reheated, and still it wasn't hot when we got it, just lukewarm (I don't know, maybe that's the style again?) It was really small, less than half of what a Schnitzel is in Vienna. Plus, it was pork, not veal. So again, they go for the cheap ingredients, but sell it at a very high price. The Schnitzel was $24, not large enough for one person, but remember, we we sharing these :/ We also ordered a baked potato with melted goat cheese. Much like the egg, it was nice, just not special. At all. It's exactly the same you would get if you put a potato with cheese in tin foil and shove it in the oven. I mean, you can't really screw that up. One potato for $17. We had a bottle of red wine. Now, they only serve raw wine here (aka natural wine), cause god forbid, they should serve you something normal. I'm sure there are wine experts that can tell you how amazing that stuff it is, but to us, it just tasted like very cheap wine, the one you buy in small plastic bottles: kinda sour, and a tiny bit carbonated. We ended up spending $200 for two people. Four small dishes. They recommend 8-9 dishes for two people, but we just didn't wanna waste more money. The people there looked happy, so maybe it just ain't for me (not a lot of people eating though, just having drinks). On the way home we each grabbed a Kebab for $11. Really enjoyed that! :) read more

Restaurant Bar Loscher was just down the street from where we were staying and carries a sustainable vibe from the farm-to-table food to the décor (shipping pallets bar, booths made from old shutters, tables seemingly from old school classrooms). The food is fantastically delicious and service friendly - at lunch Owner Thies took time to explain his vision (in English to two traveling Americans), at dinner our server Phillipe (sp?) took time to jot down some local spots for live music later that night - making us want to come back for more. The beer selection included standards from Appenzeller plus a surprising true-to-its-name New England IPA, from brewery Barbiere (just down the street - a MUST see for American craft beer lovers!). We were so please with lunch and dinner, we stopped in the next morning for a croissant and café! read more