Review: Restaurant Besenstiel

♥ wakes up and is off to work 30 min before me, and when I woke up and entered the bathroom yesterday, there against the mirror, I was met with a little note which had a surprise for me in red ink. It was in invitation to dine at Besenstiel that evening (he had also included a scibbled image of a broom & and stick)

You don't know how excited I was because I had heard amazing things about their desserts

Besenstiel's interior

Our Fish Mains 

 Nice wine from close-by Alsace: 2006 Gewürztraminer

So happy to be trying both of these

 Whatever was in that pot made everything taste amazing

Panna Cotta & Forest Berry Tiramisu

cute little pralines to go with the coffee

This is a restaurant in the centre of town that we had always walked past but never tried it.  The manager is a Portuguese man but the menu seemed to show a fusion of Swiss, Mediterranean and Asian dishes. The service was really friendly and our waiter even offered to speak to me in English. I was thrilled to be offered a little lamb-meatball with cold tomato & watermelon soup as an amuse bouche,  I love it when restaurants give you little surprise treats like that.

As I had heard so much about their desserts, I opted out of a starter, but ♥ let me share his which was an asian inspired appetizer plate with a little chicken satay, shrimp wonton, spring roll and chicken-coconut-lemongrassy soup.  I think we could have had some more as each little portion was really tasty.

Out mains were beautiful.  ♥ had the Monkfish filets with lemon butter and vegetable stew with a side of rosemary potatoes and I chose the Organic (Happy) sea bass fillet with fresh herbs and artichokes with a potato gratin (amazing) as my side. We are in land-locked Switzerland and don't get frequent access to fish, so I think when we both see it on a menu, described so well,  we just have to try it. Usually I can't finish everything on my plate but I ate everything as it was so tasty and served hot.

Now, what we had been waiting for, the desserts.  They blew our minds...and tastebuds ! We shared a tiramisu with forest berries and blackberry coulis and the „Ladies-First“ panna cotta with fresh strawberries. Those berries in the little pot were to die for and seemed to be marinaded in vanilla goodness which would have had us paying Fr.-100 just for that. ♥'s espresso came with gorgeous mini chocolates and were presented in a lovely way just like the rest of our meal.

Verdict? We are certainly going again even if it's just to have dessert.  When we left,  we had realised we had been there for three hours just talking and eating the night away...I would call that a good sign.