Le Pavillon in Bern – Delicious Food from an Unconventional Menu

The panorama restaurant Le Pavillon in Bern is located at Hotel Ambassador. The same hotel also houses the teppanyaki restaurant Taishi – but that’s not what this is about. Le Pavillon offers world cuisine made from regional and seasonal products.

Visit to Le Pavillon in Bern

During our visit, the weather was warm, so we were seated outside on the terrace. Although Le Pavillon is advertised as a panorama restaurant, the terrace doesn’t offer a view. The nice view is more from inside.

The menu selection is quite small, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The dishes on offer are quite eclectically mixed. For example, Le Pavillon offers a donburi from Japanese cuisine – a bowl of rice with various delicacies. At the same time, the menu showed a pork fillet with morel sauce. That’s why I describe the menu as unconventional and classify the cuisine as fusion. Interestingly, despite the international dishes, the wine list focuses on Swiss wines.

For my meal, I chose a donburi and added a surcharge for salad and dessert to make it a three-course meal. This set is very attractively priced.

The salad was large and topped with bacon strips and melon. The dressing came separately. Overall, the salad was a delight, especially because of the crispy fried bacon. For the main course, the chicken donburi, Le Pavillon served enough rice with plenty of chicken, radish, and edamame as toppings. The donburi was also very tasty. The rice wasn’t sticky and was therefore rather difficult to eat with chopsticks. For dessert, the waitress served an iced coffee, which was okay.