The Old Swiss House

If one day you wake up in  Luzern Switzerland, do yourself the favor of making diner reservations at The Old Swiss House.

From the outside it does not look like much.  A typical looking cute Swiss home.  But as soon as you walk in the door and get a sniff of the fantastic home made melted butter, your senses know that you have arrived at the home of "The Two Fat Ladies" ( one of my old favorite tv shows ).

Of course the restaurant is Zagat rated, the concierge recommended it and it is written up as the best place to dine in Luzern.  But it's more than that.  Its the whole ambiance and the whole cozy cool feeling you get when you enter the restaurant.  There is no decor style to describe it other than a granny, eclectic, country French thing.  Each table is unique, all chairs are different, mix and matched fabrics and colors, and odd old French silver serving pieces all over the place.  Yet this insane mix, all works.

The show starts once your server brings the food to the table and cooks it at the table.  And you die and go to heaven after the chocolate souffle.   Each and every calorie was a pleasure to eat!

http://www.oldswisshouse.ch/en/

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[DAVID LORD]

Hi, Sandra...
I'm sure you're WAY to busy to spend time with this, but just wanted to tell you that you opened a plethora of wonderful "good feelings" for me this morning! I opened your blog and memories simply EXPLODED!!... ...about a restaurant that lived it's lifetime for three generations... and then passed on into history and I was able to enter into the aura of a gentleman who made dining a memorable lifetime remembrance..

The 'detonator' sentence :-) in your paragraph was "Each table is unique, all chairs are different, mix and matched fabrics and colors, and odd old French silver serving pieces all over the place. Yet this _insane_ mix, all works."

Closed for probably 15 years now, this restaurant was not Zagat rated, nor did a concierge recommend it and if you go look at the FB site; (Shambargers Restaurant), and look at "the restaurant", you probably wouldn't even have bothered to go eat there!!...but it _was_ written up as one of the finest places to dine worldwide.

This gentleman must have been there the same nite I was!...and this quote I found on the web pretty much defines the experience; and my memories are identical!! ...."Shambarger's Restaurant in Red Key, Indiana was quite famous in its day
"The last time I ate at Shambarger’s, sometime in the middle 70′s, it cost $65.15 per person (NOT including gratuity!). It was worth every penny. The meal consisted of 13 courses and took 7 hours to eat. We started at 6:00 pm and they cut the “mile-high” strawberry pie (it was 15″ tall) at midnight. Reservations had to be booked at least a year in advance. The place would comfortably seat about 50, but they would pack in 100 people every Friday and Saturday night. It was literally elbow to elbow, but nobody cared……it was a party! And no alcohol was served. Everything in the building was antique, from the furnishings to the dishes you ate from. And everything had a price tag on it. You could buy your plate and take it home for a souvenir. Sure cut down on dishwashing! The restaurant was only a few feet from the railroad track and every night at the same time, a train came by like clockwork. Everybody would run outside and put pennies on the track for a keepsake. People came to Redkey in buses and motorhomes to eat at Shambargers. Celebrities and politicians came by the hundreds. I have photos of Neil Armstrong and Johnny Mathis taken with chef John Shambarger. Once Redkey’s claim to fame, Shambarger’s world-famous restaurant is but a fond, fond, memory!"

FACEBOOK....IMAGE OF "RESTAURANT!" The whole town was probably four blocks long!!
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.197475493600791.56560.184479951567012&type=3

I guess that beauty come in many degrees...and with good "taste" :-), money defines its worth.

You stopped and noticed...Thank you....
david