Monnier 1912 — Restaurant in Bern

Why would one pay to fund a racist place stuck in 1912 with God awful choices of food

We went in cause my kid wanted to eat a small sandwich. The nice English speaking lady at counter served us the small sandwich no issues so far. We specifically asked for a sit down & eat and not a take away. We were given the food no issues raised or asked

We sit waiting for our kid to finish as she was hungry she wanted to eat. Our hotel is close by if the person had told us anything else we would have taken food to hotel. But no nothing.

Abruptly one lady comes to us & says something to amount of where is your drink or do u need a drink. She wasn’t English speaking but we expressed a no. She got very agitated & suddenly created a rule that you cannot eat here without a drink. So far it’s been ten minutes my kid is half way eating no one has said anything. I have never experienced this in Switzerland and I have come before as well. We were asked to leave right at the spot.

There are so many better places to go. Food looked also stuck in 1912. Eat at a place that exists in 2024 cause this doesn’t

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Everything we had was awful. We had some hair on our salad and the old lady blamed us. But we found the hair as soon as the salad served it was stick to one of the leaves. And they were really rude the us. There was a slightly old woman, brown haired behind the counter. I wanted to ask what ingredients have the quiche, because I have allergy for some product group. She was doing some weird mimics and not helping to explain and I felt so insulted. I clearly see that she is not well educated person and she can not speak fluently which she has not to do but I know that she has ability to explain which is her duty. She tried to be smiling person when we are leaving because she exactly knows that I will be exposing her. The hair in our salad is not a problem it can happen any time I consider this things as an accident but the attitude of the staff is problem and it is poor to see this immigrated people are racist to tourist without looking where...

"PAIN AU CHOCOLAT Die Kombination aus knusprigem Butter- und Schokoladen-Blätterteig, gefüllt mit einer zarten Schokoladen-Ganache aus Schweizer Schokolade überzeugt noch jede Naschkatze. Besonderheit: Muss man probiert haben, um es zu verstehen"

So wird das Pain au Chocolat auf der Monnier Internetseite beschrieben und genau so ist es und dafür 5 Sterne. Wir übernachteten nebenan im NH The Bristol, wo uns das Frühstück zu teuer war und stiessen dann sofort auf das Monnier. Schon nur wegen diesem einzigartigen Pain au Chocolat lohnt es sich diese Patisserie zu besuchen. Der Milchkaffee war aber auch lecker 😉

"PAIN AU CHOCOLAT L'association d'une pâte feuilletée croustillante au beurre et au chocolat, fourrée d'une tendre ganache au chocolat suisse, séduit encore tous les gourmands. Particularité : Il faut l'avoir goûté pour le comprendre".

C'est ainsi que le Pain au Chocolat est décrit sur le site Internet de Monnier et c'est exactement ce qu'il est, ce qui lui vaut 5 étoiles. Nous avons passé la nuit à côté au NH The Bristol, où le petit-déjeuner était trop cher pour nous, et nous sommes immédiatement tombés sur le Monnier. Rien que pour ce pain au chocolat unique en son genre, cette pâtisserie vaut le détour. Mais le café au lait était également...