Café du Centre, Geneva

Friday, 19 March 2010

Since arriving in Geneva many years ago this restaurant has been one of my first choices to eat lunch, especially on a sunny day. Tables and chairs are out spring, summer and autumn which until five or six years ago meant eight or nine months a year. Too much snow now. The photos were taken Wednesday 17th and it was a reasonably warm 12c, wrap up until 'summer' really starts sometime between March and June.

Anything you choose will be good, whether you like it or not is something else, I'm no fan of snails but then I go there for the seafood. Growing up in West London the only seafood I ever saw (apart from tinned salmon and fish fingers) was on holiday in Normandy where I ate brown crab with my grandfather. Watching him cook it alive gave us nightmares, listening to the 'screams' as it was dropped into the pot, delicious though.

Place Mollard, Café du Centre

Lobster used to be the Friday favourite, maybe a few oysters to start, now I mostly have a whole crab, some mayonaise. a piece of lemon and copious amounts of white wine. Desserts are typically Swiss French and very good as are the local digestifs.

Menus are in French and English, so don't bother with your awful french. Service is good but when it's busy, it's busy.

Click on the images to enlarge and the menus should be readable. Website and contact details

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wrinkled weasel said:

	... It looks very good indeed but with the exchange rates being what they are, I would not expect to get much change out of £100 for a lunch, with wine, for two - not something I make a habit of.
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