Chausse-Coqs — Restaurant in Geneva

I was first welcomed by a handsome looking man (Pedro Pascal vibe) with an accent sounding like warm sand, inside this little restaurant near the hospital.

There was a little ambient music, at the perfect volume where you can notice but it doesn't go over your voice.

The menu items were very focused, and you can tell they serve things they worked hard on. It was quite tasty and we ate it all, forgetting to take a proper picture of it.

What I liked the most were the little melted goat cheese bites, wrapped in a delicate bric-like thin crust, which added a welcome crunch before the warm cheese, with in its heart a bit of honey and apple. It was a delight, and frankly I could eat only that for hours with a little Porto on the side.

For dessert we had a slice of dark chocolate cake with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream on top. Despite the simplistic appearance this cake was, much like my ex, full of surprises. It was still warm, and the low sugar content provided a perfect basis for the vanilla icecream. It was almost like the ice-cream was the star of the show, much like my past relationship.

Anyway, it's a good place for a quiet date, where you will get out of satiated, and hopefully happy. And if all else fail, the hospital and/or pubs are just...

We had called ahead to check if a Buy Club voucher could still be used even though it expired the day before and we were told we could still use it but only today. When we arrived, we gave the voucher to the waiter and asked him to confirm it would be good. He said he would check with his boss and he then came back with the menus so we assumed it was ok. We only found out when receiving the bill that the boss had told the waiter it was not accepted even though we had been told it was ok when reserving. This put us in an awkward position where we watched the waiters start to blame each other, get angry and threaten to make the new waiter pay for our meal. We felt bad and paid most of the bill just to get out of the situation. We fully take responsibility for the expired voucher but they had at least two chances to tell us in advance we could not use it and instead waited for the end of the meal to make the whole thing sour. Shame as the decor is quite nice and the food was not terrible. The burgers were decent though a bit hard to eat because of the size. It was not too big but they were quite tall and filled with toppings which is...

The salad is BIO but the protein (chicken) in my case is from Brazil... I find it confusing to promote an image as an establishment that uses -local- ingredients. The leaves sure were good but the cook didn't even mind to at least seperate the baby leaves from the heart of the salad leaving me with a huge chunk of green in my plate covered in slices of parmesan. Instead of receiving a caesar salad, I got a salade à la sauce vinaigrette. There are differences to be respected. The service is quite awkward as we wanted burgers in the first place. We were barred by the server as he said that these items were for take out only; just to see 10min. later that customers which arrived later than is got to order burgers. This is very strange incident and I do not want to delve deeper into the -why- we got served so badly. The decor is top notch. The history/ branding is good but the place is a 100% catfish do not recommend. I put 2/5 stars because at least I did not get food...