Swiss food in Pune

Yesterday evening we went to Swiss Cheese Garden, the restaurant in A.B.C farms, Koregaon park for enjoying Swiss food.

This restaurant has been around for a long time and I still remember the first time I went there was way back in 1996. It's still remained exactly the same.

The restaurant has a Norwegian touch to it's interior design. The interiors are made from babul logs, which create an atmosphere of Swiss Log Huts. But it was too warm inside and hence we opted to sit outside.

Swiss cheese garden serves excellent 'Fondue' (The famous Swiss dish. It's a pot of melting cheese brought on the table with bread croutons where each person can take the bread piece and dip it into the melting pot of cheese).

The table given to us was tucked into the corner and we really had a good time. We ordered a plate of mixed vegetable rosti (standard potato rosti but mixed with veggies).

We also ordered a pasta with mushroom sauce. Both of them turned out to be excellent. And we had a pint of Kingfisher beer with garlic bread as a starter dish.

The beer complimented the food extremely well.


With me ofcourse was the special person that I am interacting with, these days. She expressed that she tries to avoid cheese and hence the Swiss Fondue plan was dropped.

The Swiss Fondue is done really nicely in Swiss Cheese garden. The cheese comes from ABC farms and I strongly recommend everyone visiting Swiss cheese garden to taste authentic Swiss Fondue.

I enjoyed Saturday evening and it was with someone very special. We have differences unfortunately... And that keeps a check on my feelings. But hey nothing will stop us from spending evenings at these nice places in Pune!.

More important...I am extremely proud of the city of Pune which has the ability to remain very cosmopoliton (by opening Swiss restaurants 15 years back..Who would have thought of that) and yet very traditional. Most people don't know this side of Pune and don't realize it either.

Swiss food does remind me of Switzerland. It is a very pretty country.

I still remember my Year 2000 trip to Switzerland...The picture postcard views of the Alps, the red Swiss trains, the very modest Swiss towns, beautifully preserved from the 16th century and the clock work precision of everything that is Swiss.

Swiss people are very hard working and extremely well mannered

Alpine meadows, snow capped peaks..Church bells, alpine cow bells, the sound of trains climbing up the Alps, the beautiful cities of Lucerne, Zurich...

Switzerland remains one of the richest countries in the world. But the well mannered and modest Swiss never show off their wealth.
So no glitzy malls,no artififical lighting... No big houses either...

Just quaint towns everywhere in the country... Once in a while one can walk on BanfhofStrasse in Zurich and ofcourse realize why it is one of the richest countries in the world but in most cases the commoners walk along side the world's super rich and thats a rare sight in the world but a common sight in Switzerland.

So popular is Switzerland among Indians, that Indians account for 25 per cent of tourists visiting Switzerland. One even finds notices in Gujrathi. It is an amazing sight to bump into one.

It's a country where the goverment officials take trains to go to their offices and a classy Swiss tennis player like Roger Federer can walk as an absolutely normal person on the roads without ever getting noticed.

It's one country that I will love to visit again and will.