Four rooms

Dining and drinking

The kitchen serves a dining room, a bar, a glazed room at the front of the house and a lounge with a fire in it. All four are open to people who aren't staying here, and the dining room and bar take bookings by telephone.

Seesaal

Breakfast 06:45–10:30 · Dinner 18:30–22:00 · Closed Sunday evening

This is the house's original dining room, on the lake side of the ground floor, with the promenade and the water beyond the windows. It seats thirty-two at eight tables with white cloths, on the same parquet that was laid in 1897.

Dinner is four courses, with a shorter card if you want one or two. Lake fish comes up from the fishermen at the Reuss most mornings, so the first page changes with the catch. The cheese trolley carries all Swiss cheeses, and the sommelier looks after about ninety wines, two thirds of them from the cantons.

Breakfast is a buffet, with eggs cooked to order at the pass. The room fills between eight and nine, but if you come down before quarter past seven you'll usually get a window table.

Booking is advised for dinner, especially on Friday and Saturday. Children are welcome until 20:00.

Messing Bar

16:00–00:30 daily · Piano Friday and Saturday from 21:00

The bar is off the hall, past the lift, behind a pair of glazed doors. Its counter is brass over dark oak and went in when the house was built, while the stools and wall lights came later and are the only modern things in the room.

There are twelve Swiss wines by the glass, a working list of whisky and rye, and six long drinks the bar staff have settled on over the years. Each of the six also comes in a non-alcoholic version, made with the same care. Small plates run until half past eleven: cured meats, a potato gratin and bread from the bakery on the lane.

The pianist plays acoustic with no amplification, so conversation carries on at every table. The room seats twenty-six, and bookings stop at nine.

A curved hotel bar with a brass counter top, upholstered stools and hanging copper lamps — The brass counter in the Messing Bar

Two smaller rooms

Wintergarten and Kaminzimmer

Neither takes bookings, and both are open to guests and to anyone who walks in from the promenade.

Wintergarten

09:00–18:00 daily. The glazed room under the entrance canopy, three steps up from the hall, with cane chairs and a view straight down the quay. Coffee comes from a Lucerne roaster, there's a short pastry counter, and the day's newspapers hang on a rack in German, French and English. The glass is double and the floor heated in winter, and in summer the side panels come out.
Kaminzimmer

14:00–23:00 daily. A small panelled room behind the hall, with an open fire from October to April. Afternoon tea with Swiss pastries is served from three until five, then a light supper card of soup and a plate of cheese runs until eleven. There are nine armchairs and two tables, and the staff will gently remind you of the rule about telephone calls.

Good to know

Diets, times and service in the room

Room	Open	Seats	Booking
Seesaal	06:45–10:30, 18:30–22:00	32	Advised
Messing Bar	16:00–00:30	26	Until 21:00
Wintergarten	09:00–18:00	18	No
Kaminzimmer	14:00–23:00	11	No

Vegetarian and vegan main courses are on the card every evening without asking. Coeliac, lactose-free and nut-free dishes are cooked to order: tell the desk when you book and the kitchen will write the menu for your table. Allergen information for every dish is kept at the pass, and the waiter will bring the folder.

Room service runs from 07:00 to 22:30 from a shortened card, and reception can send up a night tray of sandwiches and soup at any hour. On Sunday and Monday the Seesaal can be taken over for a private dinner of up to forty.

Telephone or write to reception