Good places to eat

Swimming, diving and tasty ramen go hand in hand here. Located in the building of the Mon-Repos swimming pool, this restaurant with a relaxed atmosphere makes its own noodles from local ingredients.
That little extra from the food insider "¿Quand est-ce qu’on mange?": The pleasant terrace to relax after swimming lengths. Also note that all ramen dishes are offered in child-sized portions, at affordable prices.
Favourite dishes: The miso ramen and the chicken karaage

Located at Rue de Genève, Maison 66 is a charming neighbourhood restaurant managed by a passionate and devoted couple. Their winning formula rests on the expertise of the man of the house, who comes from Latvia and cooks culinary creations with care, while the lady, who comes from Ukraine, warmly welcomes customers.

Le Leonardo, located in the Flon district, invites you to enjoy top-quality Italian cuisine. You'll find a variety of dishes, including tapas, fresh pastas, tartars, burgers, pizzas and daily menus. Gluten-free and lactose-free options are also available.

In a friendly setting, Keyann Café brings together quality, hospitality and warmth. There, you can savour a variety of Lebanese specialities based on fresh products, such as salads, grilled meats, sandwiches, hot or cold meze, and desserts. The establishment also has a pretty terrace for sunny days and a catering service.

Open in 1895, this historical and popular restaurant serves simple, quality dishes to loyal customers. The indoor wood panelling and mirrors marked by the patina of time give way, in the summer, to a charming, green and colourful patio.
That little extra from the food insider "Lila Erard": The mismatched retro furniture of the terrace.
Favourite dish: The beef filet

This modern café restaurant, housed in a former petrol station, offers an excellent selection of natural wines, cocktails and other drinks, with and without alcohol. And while you’re there, stay for a bite to eat, the menu is most inspiring!
That little extra from the food insider "Cuisine Helvetica": La Station belongs to the Atelier l'Éveil, which supports people in professional rehabilitation. Before apéro, consider a visit to the Collection de l'Art Brut Museum, located nearby.
Favourite drink: The Cooler (alcohol free)

Seasonal cuisine, a terrace and takeaway dishes in the heart of the Sévelin neighbourhood.

Next to the theatre, this charming, Italian-style restaurant with its colourful contemporary decoration serves delicious homemade dishes, cooked with care and elegantly presented, as well as pizzas with various toppings.

This restaurant offers generous dishes prepared with fresh and local products.

Restaurant with Italian specialities and gourmet pizzas.

Located at Boulevard de Grancy, La Farmacia d’Angelucci is a cosy restaurant with an industrial inspiration. There, you can savour a variety of Italian dishes made from fresh market produce. Specialities include pasta and focaccia, with sauces and toppings that follow the seasons. The dishes can also be ordered as takeaways.

Located near Rue César-Roux, the restaurant La Galette serves a variety of dishes with all flavours to suit all tastes. Take the opportunity to taste one of the many cocktails that are offered.

In this restaurant west of Lausanne, you’ll be heading to southern Italy for authentic cuisine inspired by the recipes of the chef’s nonna. Innovative and traditional dishes that change with the seasons.
That little extra from the food insider "ChicandSwiss": The original Italian cuisine
Favourite dish: Fiorentina (bone steak)

An institution for lovers of tartares and meat! A considerate service, dishes flambéed before your eyes and a gorgeous wine cellar: the passion for cooking can be tasted in each mouthful.
That little extra from the food insider "Cannelle Rebelle": The meat is cut and the dishes are plated before you.
Favourite dish: The flambéed tartare

The restaurant UME, located in Epalinges, offers you a variety of Asian and Japanese dishes, as well as sushi. You can savour your meal in one of the restaurant’s large rooms, or order it as a takeaway and benefit from a discount.

Close to the Lausanne train station, Le Milan is a restaurant that offers many typically Italian dishes. A daily special is served every week as well as pasta, pizzas and much more. Every dish on the menu can be ordered as a takeaway.

The Café du Simplon, located near the Lausanne train station, invites you to savour a cuisine with French, Balkan and Greek flavours. They also serve coffee, loose teas, freshly squeezed orange juice and breakfast formulas for early risers or travellers waiting for their train. During evenings, explore the brand-new bar next to the restaurant that serves a variety of cocktails and a large selection of beers for aperitif.

In a tasteful décor, chef Jacques Allisson creates a modern gastronomy cuisine that highlights quality products with original – and always successful – combinations. A restaurant with a well-deserved reputation.
That little extra from the food insider "Guidegastronomique.ch": The best price-pleasure ratio in Lausanne for a gastronomy lunch.
Favourite dish: The Swiss green asparagus

In Crissier, the Brasserie, awarded 15/20 points by the Gault&Millau guide, serves traditional French cuisine in a warm and elegant atmosphere. Chef Fabien Foare, who won the award of “Meilleur Ouvrier de France” (Best Craftsman of France), and his brigade welcome you to enjoy a delightful moment centred on classical and contemporary dishes and exceptional wines.

In the heart of the cultural centre of the Ferme des Tilleuls, this restaurant’s originality will surprise you. The daily specials from near and far, based on mostly vegetarian local ingredients, are as copious as they are delicious.
That little extra from the food insider "Jennifer Segui": Every Thursday from 4 to 6 pm, happy hour in the café, in partnership with the local brewery La Nébuleuse. 25 cl of draught beer for CHF 3.- or homemade iced tea for CHF 2.50… Beat that!
Favourite dish: The Lebanese kibbeh

Located in the south-west of Lausanne, in the dynamic Sévelin district, Food Halle 15 is the city's first food court. This vast industrial space of more than 1000 m², carefully renovated, welcomes you 7 days a week with its 7 restaurants and bar. You'll discover a wide range of cuisines: burgers, kebabs, Asian specialities, grills, sushi, and even sweet treats like waffles. It's the perfect place for food lovers in search of new flavours!

Just a few minutes' walk from the Lausanne train station, the Mirabeau hotel restaurant welcomes you with its winter selection of dishes including Chateaubriand, bouillabaisse and sole meunière. Chef Didier Sarrat creates generous dishes inspired by local produce.
You can also enjoy tartare and carpaccio on the shady terrace under the chestnut trees.

This restaurant is located at the Flon, near the metro. You can go there just for drinks or to discover the range of “tartares”, that is seasoned raw meat or fish. Their raw dishes come in every style: tartares, carpaccios, ceviches, tatakis... Products come from the Boucherie du Molard.

At the Boulevard de Grancy, in the area under the station, this ramen restaurant with an open kitchen welcomes you in a young and friendly atmosphere. You can’t book a table, but the team will always find a place for you inside or on the terrace.

Discover the colourful and friendly restaurant “Bistro Keyann”, where you will taste Lebanese flavours.

The restaurant of the Canton of Vaud’s parliament, located in the heart of the Cité, is no longer reserved for elected representatives. From now on, it is open to the public at lunchtime, four days a week. The cuisine is local and seasonal, with 90% of ingredients and drinks coming from the Canton of Vaud.

In the mood for a gourmet meal? The Brasserie de Paudex welcomes you every day with delicious dishes prepared from local products.

Here, ingredients are produced within 30 km of Lausanne, thanks to the commitment of Swiss-Neapolitan pizzaiolo Mario Mattiello. Innovative and customisable recipes can be savoured on the first floor or as take aways.
That little extra from the food insider "Lila Erard": “Domani at the Movies” offers a discount on your cinema ticket when you book a table.
Favourite dish: The Fiorita

Discover the Café de Prélaz, the ideal place to sip cocktails with friends or savour a delicious meal.

To enjoy foody dishes and burgers right on the shores of Lake Geneva, make the most of a menu that evolves as the seasons go by and focuses on local products!

Located near the “Bessières” M2 metro station, this restaurant serves an authentic Indian cuisine to eat in or take away. You can choose from many North Indian traditional dishes that will satisfy both meat and fish lovers as well as vegetarians.

In an understated, industrial décor, this bar/restaurant welcomes you in the Flon District, in the centre of Lausanne.

Large windows, bistro furnishings and a wood floor give this café a bit of a Parisian touch. They serve wine, beer, cocktails and snacks, as well as authentic mint tea. A perfect spot for the afternoon.
That little extra from the food insider "The Lausanne Guide": Cosy and slightly retro, the Bar Tabac has the charm of cafés of yesteryear.
Favourite dish: The fresh mint tea

This Greek bar/restaurant offers Mediterranean specialities.

Furniture gleaned from antique markets, books, tables decorated with flowers and placemats … and most of all, a fresh and delicate cuisine that delights both eyes and palate. An address we’d love to keep to ourselves.
That little extra from the food insider "Tania Brasseur": In the evening, chef Fatima Ribeiro regularly organises gourmet meals that blend literature and gastronomy (advance booking only).
Favourite dish: Every daily special!

Are you looking for a nice restaurant right by the Lausanne train station? Head to the Hungry Bear Kitchen.

With its Calabrian specialities that go from pasta to grilled meats to fish served whole, this Italian restaurant in the heart of the Cité neighbourhood in Lausanne will delight you. Very warm welcome!
That little extra from the food insider "The Lausanne Guide": If you don’t know what to choose, ask Francesco for advice, he will be happy to guide you.
Favourite dish: The sausage pasta

Delicious dishes that taste of Italy

Personalised pizzas in the centre of Lausanne

How lovely it is to eat at Nabi’s, a stone throw from the train station! In the Plateforme 10 museum district, this restaurant brilliantly reinvents local cuisine, ethically, aesthetically and with a modern twist.
That little extra from the food insider "Tania Brasseur": When the weather is fair, you can enjoy the terrace and its bar located in the Arcades. On Sundays, Nabi serves an original and refined brunch.
Favourite dish: The “fabled ceviche” from the lake

A trendy restaurant right in the heart of the city!

The team at the Ristorante St Paul come from Calabria, Apulia and Sicily, in the South of Italy and work as a family. They create a warm ambience in their restaurant, bringing back memories of your food-lovers’ holidays in the land of antipasti, pasta and full-bodied wines.

A Parisian-inspired bistro just a stone's throw from the station

A Lausanne institution housed in a historic building at the bottom of a pedestrian street. We suggest kicking off with a delicious cocktail at the bar before sitting down to a dish of antipasti or pasta with original flavours.
That little extra from the food insider "ChicandSwiss": The setting, with the beautiful fireplace.
Favourite dish: Paccheri pasta with sausage

For more than 20 years, chef Stéphane Chouzenou has been listing on a blackboard his French dishes that honour gastronomic tradition while including more contemporary creations.
That little extra from the food insider "Guidegastronomique.ch": The wine list features a few older vintages at affordable prices.
Favourite dish: The lobster risotto

Delicious food in a convivial atmosphere

As a select meeting place for the people of Lausanne since 1992, this arty bistro and its little underground sister, La Cave du Bleu, are a local institution: eclectic, welcoming, relaxed and atmospheric.

Dishes drawing their inspiration from all over Latin America and served in a welcoming atmosphere.

This bar-restaurant is located just a stone's throw from the Collection de l'Art Brut and the Palais de Beaulieu.

Delicious pizzas to be eaten in, delivered or taken away