Potato Fine Food Restaurant — Restaurant in Zermatt

After finding this fine dining establishment on the Michelin guide, we made a reservation the night before on their website. Very much like a Michelin star restaurant, we had superb service and pacing of the entire meal by an experienced waiter. He explained all the dishes in detail, and ensured that we had everything we needed at our table for a premier dinner.

We had the five-course menu—both the pescatarian and standard one—and both were great. The only difference between the two was the main course. (We dined in March of 2024.) Truly mimicking art, each dish, no matter how small, had an amazing amount of detail given to it. The small crisp with sour creme and radish slices set the tone for the remainder of the meal—smaller portions with out-of-this world flavor.

This particular menu emphasized savory ice creams early on, with flavors like carrot and onion. The onion flavor—and especially the way in which it was served, alongside candied onions, baked cheese crumbles, and an onion-flavored gelatinous wafer—stole the show. The carrot one, however, was just as good but emphasizing carrot flavors. The black truffle one was, similarly, to die for.

The bread was the best I had while in Zermatt. Full stop. Butter too. We had almost two whole loaves across the three of us.

Dessert came in the form of a semi-solid apple popsicle and a decomposed, fine dining take on a tiramisu. Followed up with a shot of espresso, that dinner could not have been beat. I’d highly recommend the wine pairing, which was a reasonable 60 CHF for four drinks throughout—a glass of sparkling wine, a glass of white, red, and finally a...

We are a family of four who consider ourselves well travelled and believe that one of the most enjoyable experiences to be had with travel is to enjoy a local restaurant that is well executed. We spent my birthday at Potato. What a fabulous choice. It is easily one of the best restaurants we have visited. It could fall victim of being pretentious about its exquisite food, perfect ambience, and ideal location, but is immediately warm and friendly - as though you are walking into a long lost friend’s home. The wait staff are quick to smile, have perfect timing, have in-depth knowledge about the menu (in multiple languages!), and appear to thoroughly enjoy being part of Potato. We chose the five course menu with wine to complement; it was superb. Each course was a delight of color, flavor, and presentation presented with pride by the wait staff. There were many layers to each course with the sauces alone warranting focused attention. The butter is made each day and apparently the goal is guess the flavors it has been infused with. We had 2 different butters - licorice (yep!) in one, and carrot and honey in the other (I think). Each course was of perfect quantity to leave you satisfied at the end of the meal. I think my favorite was the warm starter of Swiss egg, potato and caviar - intense flavor packed into a visually superb egg. Actually, I changed my mind, the salmon, chorizo, pepper and eggplant was incredible and surpassed the starter. I could go on. This is a reasonably priced, special experience that should be on your list of places to visit while in Zermatt, or indeed Switzerland. Thank you for a...

I hate writing bad reviews and this place had good service and nice ambiance but we spent $350 usd here (no drinks) for 2 people and the meal was lacking a lot for the price. We saw the insanely good reviews so we wanted to try it for our last night but it’s a set menu and there was very very little meat in the main course - a lot of gelatin in both one of the desserts and the appetizer. I feel horrible writing this bc I want to support small businesses and appreciate that they get their ingredients from within99km of zermatt but I also feel like I got cheated bc the food wa so lackluster in taste compared to other way cheaper meals I had in zermatt on our trip. Even the dessert was so strange and overly sweet and the cake had nothing on the petit royal bakery across the way’s cakes. I may have just had a bad night there or it might just be my taste is not what this restaurant offers so it may still be worth a try for you but it is very expensive and I felt like it was not worth it at all. For 129 Chf/pp I would definitely expect more. I needed to give my honest opinion on here bc I feel like I was completely swayed by the reviews and left completely disappointed and unsatisfied with a huge credit card charge. There are a few not great reviews but I ignored them since the positive reviews were overwhelming but that let me to have high expectations and I was severely disappointed. Again it may just be my taste though so it might be worth a...