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Traditional Swiss Food - What to Eat in Switzerland
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Mar 24, 2025
Visiting Switzerland is a joy for the eyes with the amazing Alps and Swiss villages, but there are also some great Swiss foods you should try as well. Here we go through a few must eats in Switzerland, from Fondue to Raclette to Chocolate and more! Filmed in Basel, Switzerland Copyright Mark Wolters 2022 #switzerland #swisschocolate #fondue Learn how to plan your travels like we do with our Travel Planning 101 Course: https://www.brighttrip.com/woltersworld Visit Our Amazon Store for Drinkware, cookingware, travel gear, and other necessities of life. http://www.amazon.com/shop/woltersworld Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Simply Jocelyn on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Simply-Jocelyn-A-Globally-Inspired-Life-100312851709273/ Follow Our Shorts Channel for quick travel tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSIWRrLCcqamLlTEEBLFLA
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Hey there hungry travelers, Mark here with Waltersworld and today we're in Basel, Switzerland
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And today I want to talk about some of the things you should eat when you come here to
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Switzerland. And what you really need to realize when you come to Switzerland, it is a very diverse
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country because there's actually different regions with different cultural influences and that also affects their food
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So what I want to talk about is some of the kind of overall Swiss food that you should try when you're here
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And if you have regional dishes that you know people need to have, put in the comment section below
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with the region or the city it's in and what they should eat so we can help out more travelers
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get more fantastic food when they're here. Because one thing you need to realize is when you come to Switzerland
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a lot of the food is really farm to table or locally produced. So it's so fresh
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It's so good. And that's why the cheeses you have here will differ by region
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You're going to love it. And that's why, obviously, one of the things you have to have when you're here is the cheese
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And no, I'm not talking about the Swiss cheese from back home. You know, the one that looks like it's straight out of a Tom and Jerry cartoon
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No, no, no. There are so many different cheeses here you can enjoy in Switzerland
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Make sure you do that, okay? And you'll see that there's actually seasonal cheeses that'll pop up as well
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So check out the cheese shop and go get yourself when you're here. Now, there's two really big cheese dishes, I guess is the way I'd put it, that you need to have when you're here
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One is fondue. We know cheese fondue. You know, you see it. This is when you think Switzerland, you think, oh, fondue and chocolate
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Yes. And fondue, that big old pot of melted cheese together that put wine in there
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especially if you have the flavors in there. Oh, it's so good. You know, you have a little speed and you get your bread in there
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And sometimes you put other things in the cheese. It's so good. And it's something you really have to have when you're here
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But I will say, if you're going to have fondue, make sure you know the etiquette of how to do it
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If you eating with locals if you eating with other travelers nobody going to care also if you going to be eating with kids be careful because sometimes that cheese can cover the back of your throat and you can choke a little bit And maybe it not just for kids Maybe it just for travel vloggers who every time they have fondue here almost choke
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to death. So do be careful with that. But fondue is something you have to have when you're here
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Every time I've come, we've had it. Even I've visited friends that aren't from Switzerland, like, nope, we have to have it. So another cheesy, tasty treat when you're here in Switzerland
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is raclette. And raclette is not as popular around the world or famous around the world as fondue is
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but for me, actually, sometimes it tastes even better. And what it is, you have raclette cheese
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and it'll be this kind of, you know, it's a big wheel, and they'll cut it, and then what they do is they, like, with a little fire, they'll, like, melt just, like, the edge part, and they cut that
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off, and they either put it on their potatoes, or some people put it on the side of the potatoes
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I'm an on-top-of-the-potatoes kind of person, but you have different meats and different stuff
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they'll go with you'll put the cheese on the raclette cheese i mean it has some punch in terms
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of the smell but it has some punch in your tummy because it's really really good and honestly if
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you want something that's more special that you don't get everywhere around the world because fondue you make all over the place i find that actually raclette is actually a nicer experience
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it's something you're like hey this is a bit different so definitely try that when you're here
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now you notice i didn't talk about chocolate early and we think about switzerland it's fondue and
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chocolate well obviously you got to get chocolate when you're here and yes there is chocolate fondue
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So you can do that as well. I find the kids like that one better than the cheese fondue
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So have a heads up for that. But in general, there's tons of great chocolate shops all over the country
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This is where you're going to get your chocolates to take home and give as gifts. Because Swiss chocolate really is better
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Look, I'm not trying to diss Hershey's or Cadbe or anybody like that
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But like the chocolate from Switzerland is next level. And it's not just the Toblerones and Linds that you know and you see every day around the world
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is the local chocolatiers who will make exotic flavors and fantastic just treats out of chocolate here in Switzerland
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So definitely pick up some chocolate when you are here Now another hearty little thing you can have when you come here is called a rusti And basically what a roosti is like I would call it a hash brown pancake but people wouldn say that Think about shredded potatoes made like a pancake thing and then fried And then you can
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have different stuff on it. Somebody put egg and sausage on it. Like I have some with cheese and
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egg and some with mushrooms and onions. There's different toppings you can put on it. But the
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roosti is a very common thing here in Switzerland to have. And for my young fellow travelers that
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are missing out on their craft macaroni and cheese when you're back home well guess what
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they have their own macaroni and cheese here in switzerland and that's the alpa macaroni which is
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basically macaroni noodles with cheese just like mac and cheese but then they put some potatoes in
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there as well to give a little more fortification and it's you know tasty swiss cheeses that are
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going in there not the powdered stuff like we have in the u.s but that's something that my kids
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actually like when we're here because it actually kind of helped them with a little bit of homesickness
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which I thought was kind of funny because I'm like, it's kind of like mac and cheese with the macaroni noodles
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but it's the Swiss version. So as I mentioned before, you know, there's very much regional dishes
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regional treats around the country. Also by city, there's going to be different treats
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and different things you want to have in different cities. Now, some of those treats will be in other cities as well
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but sometimes you want to get it where it's really from. Now Basel has the Lecce Lille
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which is basically like a harder gingerbread cookie kind of brownie looking thing
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A little glaze on top, you can have that. It travels very well because it's like a more biscuit kind of crackiness than it is like cookie-ish
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But that's something you can have. You know, cities like Zurich have their own thing. The Zürich, I mean, I'm going to butcher this one
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So just bear with me because, you know, it's Swiss German. So it doesn't always work with the normal German that I'm used to speaking
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Okay. The Zürich Nitzlitz. Yeah. Yeah. I butchered that one. Go ahead and make fun all you want
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But this is actually really good. It's veal and like a wine sauce. Oh, man
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The sauces here are fantastic. if you get it on the food, which is wonderful, but you're going around
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you going to have different stuff I mean you by St Golland man like their bratwurst are phenomenal when you there and the locals will tell you don eat them with mustard You know somebody that from near Chicago I understand how vehement people in Chicago are about not putting ketchup
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on the Chicago dog. Well, you don't put mustard on the St. Gallen bratwurst because it's just
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perfect the way it is. That roasted beauty, you want to have that. And there's just so many
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different treats you have in different cities around here. Now, I will say, when you're going
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out to eat, service is not necessarily going to be quick or friendly, but it will be professional
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when you are here. You do not have to tip when you're in Switzerland. There's already a service
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fee included in the price of the food that's there. Now, you can leave extra money. You can
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tip on top of that, but it's not expected. Another nice thing, if you're looking to save a little
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money, you can just drink the tap water here. The tap water in Switzerland is fantastic, so you can
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fill up with that all the time. And if you go to the restaurant and just ask for tap water, No one's going to care
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It's going to be totally fine. Another fantastic thing you need to have when you're here in Switzerland is actually Swiss wine
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I know we never really think about Swiss wine because we don't see it in our local wine store
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Well, that's because the Swiss drink all of their wine. So when you're here, make sure you do try some of the Swiss wine
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It is fantastic. Now, for my vegetarian and vegan friends, there's a lot of vegetarian and vegan options here in Switzerland
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More so in the cities than when you go in the rural areas. So I want to give you a heads up for that one
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And if you're looking to save a little money with the food, just have the grocery stores
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They're going to be small grocery stores in the big cities. So you can grab like a picnic lunch to enjoy out here on the river, taking in beautiful views like this
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Or when you're going up on the picnics, when you're going into mountains, doing your hikes, you'll love it
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Anyway, I hope this helps you know what to eat when you get to Switzerland. And believe me, there's a lot more
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