It was truly a treat to start the New Year in one of my favorite, if not my very favorite restaurants in the world, Chez Vrony. This place offers everything I love in a restaurant, and one of the most impressive views in the world. It is in a charming hamlet called Findeln, in the ski area Sunnegga, a fast train can shoot you up a tunnel that burrows through the mountain from Zermatt to Sunnegga in minutes.
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The ambiance is cozy, elegant, unpretentious.
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The furnishings are an eclectic mix of old and new.
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The original charm of this 100 year old farmhouse has been maintained by the same family for all of these years.
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Years ago, it was a family-run guest house, and then a small restaurant, provisioning stop.
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The ambience can be found inside and out, Chez Vrony has one of the greatest decks in the Alps. Cozy shearlings and blankets, invite one to linger for hours over lunch or drinks, taking in that view. One of the brothers reportedly makes the curvy, weathered wood loungers and generous sized picnic tables.
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The stylish deck is still surrounded with the rustic.. look at these beautiful, ancient slate tiles.
Judging from the wine buckets prepacked with snow, it looks like they were expecting quite a crowd on New Years Day.
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Not unusual, during peak season, Chez Vrony very hard to get into, click on “Splendid Market sent me” to make a reservation.
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The food has an emphasis on home-grown goodness, quality and tradition, “Chez Vrony still produces Papa’s dried meat’s, Alpine cheese and homemade sausage according to the original recipes” but with a very modern twist. This hearty rosti was the perfect dish for New Years day, click on elegant food in a rustic setting {my favorite dining scenario} to see some inspiring presentation at a lunch I had here with my girlfriends a couple of years ago and click on rosti for a recipe for this fabulous brunch dish.
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On a previous post on the restaurants on the slopes in Italy, a reader wondered how they got all of that great food and wine up to these high elevation locations, something I have always been curious about as well. Click on Lunch Logistics to read a great little piece on the the topic in a great new local magazine, called Zermatt Times {turn to page 58}.
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AMAZING!!!!!!! Looks like such an incredible place…and that view, is other worldly!
Not bad at all Emily! 🙂 I watched my BIL, SIL and husband fall asleep in the sun in Austria (in November!! Crazy good weather that day) in one of those curved loungers. And the snow packed ice buckets – how fun is that? Thanks for sharing!
Emily I cannot imagine a more exciting place to be for New Years! The views, the setting , the food! Thank you for sharing!
xoxo
Karena
2013 Artists Series
Emily, it looks like heaven. Thanks for the vicarious vacation to the alps and the views of the Matterhorn! Mr. H. and I were supposed to go to Zermatt next month but had to put our trip on hold with all that's been going on. So I'll be making due with this little peek and dreaming of a reschedule! Hope you are having so much fun, I'm sure you are! XOXO
Hi Emily,
Switzerland is gorgeous. It's on my bucket list.. so I will get there! I like the rustic feel of this spot, and the emphasis on fresh ingredients. The lounge chairs and blankets .. I could do some serious eating AND relaxing here!
Regarding snow in Seattle.. The temps have been in the mid twenties and we've had some freezing fog and lots of ice. No snow recently. We live in the foothills and have our own micro climate. Sometimes we get snow and Seattle does not.
Enjoy your travels!
xx
Might make skiing more tolerable for me!! Adore rosti and the delicious gemutlichkeit of all that Swiss German food!!
We ENJOYED an amazing lunch at Chez Vrony on December 23rd – sitting outside in the the gorgeous bright sunshine amidst the beauty of the matterhorn. enjoyed Opa’s trockenfleisch platter as an app, and their Specialty – the Vrony Burger (Ladies portion), Salmon and Rosti, Etc. but you can’t go wrong with anything on this menu!! THE freshest ingredientS! Call ahead to make a reservation! – My only regret??? That we didn’t have one more day to go back again for breakfast oR another lunch.
This makes me smile! Such a wonderful, special place. Makes my year to hear you’re enjoying it. Happy 2018!!