Thalvie Café & Bar — Restaurant in Thalwil

Beautiful place, lots of potential but I won’t come back.

We had a reservation but that didn’t guarantee us anything. We arrived on time, waited a while to get someone to come to us to discover that they don’t have a table reserved. A couple in front without a reservation got a big nice table fit for a group of people, and we were sat all together (4 ppl) at one tiny table after some searching, right under the sun, near the walking area.

Fine, that’s not a great start but maybe food would be good? Took the all day brunch menu. I must say that staff was open to food adjustments, thank you for that, but the food was under average.

Bagel bread was chewy (definitely not fresh), bagel was so full of spring onions that I couldn’t enjoy it’s taste. I had an avocado bagel with egg. You would expect an avocado to be good in an avocado bagel, well that wasn’t the case. It was somehow sour and felt like fresh avocado mixed with jar avocado, really weird tasting thing. Bagel was absolutely not worth it.

Superbowl was very tasty. One thing I can recommend. Fruit they served was fresh. Banana cake was drier than the ground on this 32 degree day.

Service was bad, staff was disorganised, apart from the reservation issue, they didn’t clean the table where we were sat, didn’t bring menus, never checked on our drinks that ended before the food came, never cleaned the plates off our table (sat there for like 30 min with plates in front and we just left eventually).

I don’t think the place is worth the money. The location is lovely, service and food need...

Very sad to write this review as I have been a guest here several times and really like the café as it is the only place to go for a coffee and cake for me with it’s own character and beautiful building in Thalwil. Today we’ve been here for tea time with friends, the service staff was busy as there was also a private event at one side but we were greeted warmly by a waiter lady. The waiter gentleman on the other hand did not look very motivated nor was proactive…

The disaster was that a friend found a big chunk of sharp glass in his coffee which was in his mouth! He luckily took it out before his mouth was cut, talked discreetly to staff and all he got as an answer that no one knew how this could happen! After talking to different persons we received a half hearted “sorry”. And upon talking again and again trying to understand where the glass came from, our drinks were taken off the bill. All we expected was someone to take it seriously and investigate the matter a bit more so that we can find a broken glass or something to make sure he didn’t unknowingly swallow another piece of glass. A very disappointing experience and I hope they take the matter seriously as no one wants a delicious piece of cake that badly to put their lives in danger. (And yes the food...

A charming cafè near the lake only 15 mins from Zürich HB!

This cafè is located super close to the train station, in a small park surrounded by trees not too far from the lake. The atmosphere is really special, with the main seating area located in the veranda of a well-preserved historical building decorated with extreme care. The music is not too loud, and the ambience feels very relaxing and cozy. There is also a relatively large seating area outside, perfect for the warmer season.

The menù is pretty small. They offer a variety of teas, warm drinks, and wines. To eat, they have some cakes, empanadas, bagels, birchermüsli, etc, and an all-day brunch. The prices are a bit high, but in our opinion, the location, the care in the service, and the quality of the drinks/food make it worth it.

We went there on a saturday afternoon for tea-time and got hot chocolate, a honey oolong tea, a brownie, and a cake trio. This last one is composed of a small portion of carrot cake, which was soft and moist, a mini brownie with nuts (I think pecans!), and muffin with banana and choco chip if I had to guess! All of them were really good, and I simply love the idea of enjoying 3 different desserts with...