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| Hostellerie Le Petit Manoir |
We drove to Waadt for our wedding day. For those who don't know, our baby's due date is in July and at the moment I'm on sick leave. Due to some issues I'm not allowed to do anything like clean, go for a walk etc.
Yes I know that I'm supposed to be lying down all the time but we decided to go anyway. We had booked the hotel already a month ago and I had also booked a table for the restaurant (15 Gault Millau points) in the same hotel, so we didn't have to drive somewhere far to enjoy some nice food. Thus we thought that it can't be that hard on me when I'm basically just sitting down the whole time and we stay close to our room.
We stayed at the Hostellerie Le Petit Manoir in Morges which is like 10 minutes drive west of Lausanne. I would have liked to book a room at the Lavaux wine region but unfortunately everything reasonably priced was already booked out. The drive was about 2 and 1/2 hours from us. We had never been to the Romady, the French speaking area of Switzerland, before. It was funny: it felt a bit like abroad but at the same time somewhat familiar.
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| Our hotel room |
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| The french balcony opening to the garden |
As
mentioned we dined at the restaurant of the Petit Manoir. It has 15
Gault Millau points which is good and we think that the food was worth
of the points. We took a 5 course Menu Tentation: Terre, Mer, Lac &
Montagne. It was 118 CHF per person which we found was okay in the Swiss
price standard. I took a couple of pictures but not of all the courses.
Here is what we had:
Le couteau des côtes bretonnes
en duo avec la coque - aéré de bettrave - gingembre confit
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La morille brune
farcie aux petits pois - amandes - bouillon au vin jaune
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L'omble chevalier du Lac Léman
poché aux agrumes - carottes jaunes et algues - réduction terre et mer
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Le boef Suisse
coeur d'entrecôte au charbon - fèves et oignons doux - jus aux épices
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La rhubarbe
glacée - comme une tarte - pamplemousse, cynorrhodon
Hubby had also a selection of cheese before dessert for 18 CHF. There were,
of course, also an amuse-bouche and pre dessert served which are not on
the menu. The small pre dessert was super good: lime cremeux, celery
sorbet and nut tuile. I could have had that as a dessert :D All in all
everything was super. Specially the patisserie section of the kitchen
was doing an fantastic job. Service was also good and very attentive.
They, for exaple, asked if I would like to have an extra pillow.
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| Le couteau des côtes bretonnes |
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| Le boef Suisse |
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| La rhubarbe |
The
next day we jumped in the car and drove all the way through Lavaux to
Villeneuve and back. We stopped a couple of times to take some photos
but unfortunately the weather wasn't very good. Everything looked gray
and we couldn't really see the mountains at the otherside of the Lake
Geneva. But we did saw enough to realise how fantastic it must be on a
sunny day. It was quite hard for me not to stop at every place and go
for a walk. We are usually very active when we travel and we like to
walk a lot to get to know the cities and villages we visit. Thankfully I
had Hubby with me, who took care that I didn't wander of anywhere.
We'll definitive have to go back to this region of Switzerland.
Because
of the weather we took very less photos. If you woud like to see the
region better you can check these videos in Youtube: Lavaux, Switzerland and Video Lavaux English and Welcome in Lake Geneva region. Here is a Youtube channel for the Vaud with plenty of interesting videos: Vaud - Région du Léman.
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| Chillon castle |
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| Vevey and Montreux seen from Villeneuve |
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| In Villeneuve |
We wanted to have lunch at Tout un Monde
in Grandvaux which seems like a great restaurant with a suberb view but
unfortunately we weren't able to find a parking place close by. Even
the multi-storey car park was full and because I'm not allowed to walk
we opted for the second option in Lutry: Cantinetta Meal.
This is an Italian place right at the Lake Geneva in the harbour of
Lutry. It's not fine dining but the food was good and the place was full
of loud Italians which I think is a good sign ;) We had to wait shortly
for the table. Even though we hadn't reseved we got aperitifs offered
because we had to wait. The food is typical Italian from antipasti to
pizza and pasta. They have a real pizza oven and pizzaiolo and the
pizzas looked great but we didn't try them. We had:
Hubby:
Carpaccio di tonno rosso con emulsione agli agrumi e cipollotti freschi 28 CHF
Spaghetti alle vongole verachi 35 CHF
Me:
Melanzane alle parmigiana 22 CHF
Paccheri artigianali con cime di rapa
pomodorini del Vesuvio e lardo di Colonnata 30 CHF
So, it was no fine dinig but well our money's worth. All in all with coffee etc. we paid 129 CHF
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| Cantinetta Meal in Lutry where we had late lunch |
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| Hotel garden |
After
the late lunch I was so tired that I just wanted to go back to the
hotel. In the evening sun peeked out behind the clouds and I woud have
loved to do a short wak at the Morges habour/lake side which was only
about 200 meters from the hotel, but we (Hubby) decided better not to.
So we spent the rest of the evening watching football and Hubby went
to get us a snack from the nearby gas station.
Well,
watching the European championships on our wedding day is nothing new.
We also did that on the day we got married. After our marrige ceremony we ate with couple of friends in a restaurant and watched football ;))
