Quaint little brunch place just outside of Parc la Grange, this place is Euro-rustic. The brunch buffet is laid out on the small counter in front of a kitchen no bigger than the one you have at your home. Two chefs scramble to prepare the spread of quiches, scrambled eggs, salads, and desserts from scratch using a four-burner stove and an single oven two-level oven. The bowl of broken egg shells sitting by the stove, the pile of dirty dishes waiting for their turn in the dish washer, and the heap of potato peels littering the counter and spilling on to the floor are all on public display, and you know you're getting a home-cooked meal.
Nothing is super fancy, and everything is wonderfully homey. The bread station is strewn with a haphazard selection of jams and spreads, but don't waste your time there. The quiches are very good and uncomplicated, and made with fresh ingredients. I particularly liked their ground beef quiche, which tasted a lot like a lasagna. The salads were fresh and simple, the cheese was plentiful, and the desserts (a brownie pie and apple cobbler) were warm and definitely made from scratch.
I am generally of the mind that if I saw my food being prepared in most restaurants, I would probably have less of an appetite as I would realize that even the most fanciful of meals are made fairly mechanically and thoughtlessly. But here, there was something refreshing about two women who were willing to let you watch the hectic process of trying to feed a restaurant full of people on an all-you-can-eat menu.
As a package, the restaurant itself would be five stars. But there were some lags where they ran out of food and were unable to replenish fast enough. This regularly left a group of people awkwardly mulling around the narrow counter. This is understandable, except that they seemed to want to bring out all the food at once, so even when one quiche was done, it sat behind the counter while the other two baked in the single oven. This made for an attractive presentation when a new spread was laid out, but considering that the presentation was demolished within minutes, they should probably just opt for efficiency.
A great deal in Geneva standards at CHF22, although drinks are separate. They do make a mean cappuccino, though. read more