L'Auberge de Beaulieu — Restaurant in Lausanne

Would not recommend.

My company made a huge reservation in this place and pretty much packed it. We made a deal for a happy hour and at some point the bartender decided it was over but kept applying it to customers at his discretion, so the pretty employee (blonde good looking woman) that ordered a couple of beers before me got the discount (and I saw it happen) but when it was my turn and ONLY after the beers were served, I was told that I would have to pay the full price. When I aknowledged it, the bartender just said "don't get all weird on me mate" and made me pay full price anyway.

Overpriced and...

Place is undeniably cool but the staff is ridiculously impolite, especially behind the bar - they looked super bothered when we tried to order drinks. The food takes AGES, don't even bother. We waited 1.15 hours for 3 shared dishes and we were basically about to leave when the food came. Cherry on the cake, there was no bread left in the kitchen so we had to eat our cured meats without it. We didn't get a single polite gesture during the whole evening and when we tried to order dessert the kitchen was closed. We definitely won't be coming back to feel unwelcome and waste a whole evening...

As opposed to what the name and the location suggest ( a very old vaudois castle originally), this is a south American restaurant with great, true south American cuisine. The garden is the best, somewhere between Berlin, New York and a Bavarian beer garden. The chairs don't match, the staff is kind if not entirely organised and everything is terribly romantic. Sometimes there's a pop up shop in the high table corner of the garden. Everyone is welcome: kids playing with the gravel, young Bankers and hippies, blonde Jetsetters and...