Are you looking forward to celebrating Thanksgiving with family and friends, but are daunted by the idea of preparing all the food that goes with it? Would you rather just put your feet up and let someone else do the cooking this year? Well you can, and you don’t have to wait for someone else to invite you to their home!
Swiss retail and wholesale bakery, Peace Foods, is offering clients an all-inclusive, food delivery service that means your entire meal – right down to the aperitifs and side dishes – can be delivered to your door, either Ready to Eat (hot out of the oven) or Ready to Heat (just heat and serve).
According to Peace Foods founder, Linda Vogel, all turkeys are natural, free range, Swiss turkeys, brined for 24 hours, and then slow-roasted to ensure they are deliciously juicy and flavorful. But if you don’t fancy turkey, you can also choose from honey-glazed gammon or Irish Angus beef instead.
A new food delivery service has recently opened in Rolle, targeting both residential and corporate inhabitants. Called Venezvite, the new online service will enable customers to order food from a curated list of restaurants, cafés and eateries, catering for a wide range of culinary tastes.
Adjowii Özdemir, Founding Partner of Venezvite, told knowitall.ch, “Venezvite was born out of a need - a hunger if you like – for a website where one could go and have at one's fingertips, an approved list of restaurants offering delivery or take-away in the Lac Léman region. One of the luxuries that residents in the region soon come to miss from their everyday life, particularly those expatriated from larger cosmopolitan areas, is a sense of "convenience" associated with food.”
She added, “Having experienced the same frustration ourselves, my co-founder, Addia Cooper-Henry, and I decided that we should create that place where people could go to find great restaurants, to order from their menus online and have their food prepared and ready for pick-up or delivery in minutes. We are a small, but growing, company with a hearty appetite for achieving and maintaining customer satisfaction.”
A new American-style burger bar, which opened in St. Cergue at the end of last year, is becoming increasingly popular as the word spreads about its attractive décor, friendly service and impressive range of American burgers.
Called Rando Burger, the new restaurant offers at least 20 different burgers, each created using fresh local produce, carefully chosen to tempt the taste buds of the most discerning burger fans. With all meat, vegetables and bread provided by local Swiss suppliers, the restaurant creates genuine American-style burgers with a uniquely Swiss taste to them!
The Rando Burger is a family-run restaurant, headed up by Gilles Dascher, and his wife, Monique. Having lived in Conneticut for two years, the couple developed a taste for American burgers and were keen to pass on this experience to others when they returned to Switzerland a few years ago.
It is well known that the expat community likes its cupcakes – so it’s no surprise that our Know-it-all passport guide started listing them in its Birthday chapter several years ago. Fairy Cakes was the first and only company to be listed in the 2007/2008 edition of the book with owner, Melanie Goodman, being the first to offer British/American style cupcakes.
However, the market for cupcakes has expanded so much since then that it seems like we’re getting recommendations for cupcake suppliers almost every month! Between them, these companies have considered just about every possible desire for the discerning cupcake fan - read on to find out more!
Article from Les Vins de Genève website.
A day in Geneva’s countryside to discover the 2011 vintage Caves Ouvertes, or the Open House Day of Geneva’s wineries, takes place canton-wide on Saturday, May 12 this year. Nearly all of the canton’s wineries will be open on the day.
The Open House Day known as Caves Ouvertes was first launched in 1987 by Geneva’s independent winegrowers. The idea was to invite the general public to come out and visit their wineries. It was the first event of the kind in Switzerland. Pierre Dupraz, who was president of the Geneva chapter of the winegrowers’ association at the time, recalls that ‘’several dozen’’ people showed up for that first Open House. Going on 25 years later, the number of visitors is in the thousands and Caves Ouvertes has become one of Geneva’s big annual events.
On Saturday, May 12, 2012, nearly all (some 90) of the canton’s wineries will be opening their doors to present the 2011 vintage – and oak2aged wines from the 2010 vintage.
