# The best Swiss specialities

Typical dishes of Swiss cuisine from every part of the country, from fondue and raclette to Älplermagronen, according to Switzerland Tourism and speciality guides.

- 22 votes · 13 items
- May 28, 2025 · Andrea Brunner
- https://even.best/en/l/414/the-best-swiss-specialities

## Top 12

1. **Cheese fondue** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Gruyère and Vacherin (moitié-moitié) melted with white wine and kirsch, bread for dipping.
2. **Rösti** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Grated potatoes fried crisp, the national dish of German-speaking Switzerland.
3. **Älplermagronen** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Pasta with potatoes, cheese, cream and fried onions, with apple sauce.
4. **Berner Platte** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A huge platter of sausages, bacon, beef, sauerkraut and beans.
5. **Capuns** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Grisons chard leaves filled with spätzle dough and salsiz sausage.
6. **Malakoff** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Deep-fried cheese balls from Lake Geneva.
7. **Basler Mehlsuppe** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Toasted flour soup eaten during Basel Carnival.
8. **Papet vaudois** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Leeks and potatoes with saucisson vaudois, from the canton of Vaud.
9. **Zuger Kirschtorte** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cake with kirsch syrup, buttercream and meringue layers.
10. **Bircher muesli** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Oats with apple and nuts, invented by Maximilian Bircher-Benner around 1900.
11. **Raclette** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Valais raclette cheese melted by the fire and scraped over boiled potatoes with gherkins.
12. **Zürcher Geschnetzeltes** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Strips of veal in cream and mushroom sauce, with rösti.
13. **Bündner Gerstensuppe** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Barley soup with vegetables and Bündnerfleisch.

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