Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Bern from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Bern
These three starred rooms cover tasting menus, vegetarian fine dining and museum-side cooking.
Wein & Sein in Grünes Quartier serves modern Swiss fine dining as tasting menus and prix fixe in a restored 16th-century vaulted cellar. Courses range from four to six, with exceptional wine pairings by sommelier Daniela Jaun. The restaurant holds a Michelin star, and the wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led.
ZOE in Grünes Quartier is Michelin-starred vegetarian fine dining with a 100% plant-based menu and a tasting-menu format. The drinks list includes natural wine, and the kitchen works through seasonal and sustainable ideas with pickled vegetables, fermented grains and foraged aromatics.
Steinhalle in Kirchenfeld holds a Michelin star in a historic museum setting. The restaurant runs globally inspired tasting menus under chef Markus Arnold, with an extensive wine list, an open kitchen and a separate easy lunch format alongside the main dining room.
These are the places where wine is a defining part of the visit, from exceptional lists to specialist wine bars and cellar-driven dining.
Jack’s Brasserie in Rotes Quartier is a classic French brasserie with an exceptional wine program and Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Its sommelier-led list sits alongside the fin-de-siècle room in Bern’s Bahnhofplatz hotel.
La Passion du Vin in Rotes Quartier offers an exceptional wine program with Star Wine List and Falstaff recognition. The bar is built around serious bottle depth, with staff guiding choices across regions and styles, and the daily pop-up kitchen adds a food element to the cellar-led setup.
Delinat Weinbar in Rotes Quartier focuses on organic and sustainable wines, with natural wine in the mix and Star Wine List recognition. The bar pours from open bottles and includes Saturday evening glass specials from those bottles.
Klösterli Weincafe in Gryphenhübeli is a Swiss brasserie with a wine focus, an exceptional sommelier-led list and Star Wine List recognition. The restaurant serves a la carte and small plates. The selection has 120 Swiss wines. Diners cook a beef entrecôte table-side in a copper pan.
moment, Café Postgasse and Restaurant Röschtigrabe show how Bern’s everyday dining works across old-town rooms and central local tables.
moment in Weisses Quartier pairs contemporary Swiss terroir with an exceptional natural wine program in an intimate two-floor setting. The room serves creative, seasonal tasting menus and set menus. Michelin Plate recognition is for 2024 and 2025. Star Wine List recognition is for 2026. The wine list is extensive and sommelier-led.
Café Postgasse in Weisses Quartier serves traditional Swiss comfort food with a standard wine program. It sits on one of Bern’s oldest lanes in the medieval core and stays close to the city’s everyday eating rhythm, with a format built around simple a la carte service.
Restaurant Röschtigrabe in Rotes Quartier is a Swiss regional restaurant. The restaurant’s name references Switzerland’s cultural and linguistic divide. The wine selection is extensive, regional and international. Meals are a la carte. Signature rösti dishes are served on Bärenplatz, in the heart of Bern’s old town.
Rotes Quartier, Grünes Quartier and Weisses Quartier stand out in our guide for wine-led dining. Rotes Quartier has Jack’s Brasserie, La Passion du Vin and Delinat Weinbar. Grünes Quartier has Wein & Sein, and Weisses Quartier has moment.
Bern has 3 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. They are Wein & Sein, ZOE and Steinhalle. Together they show three different styles of starred dining, from modern Swiss tasting menus to vegetarian fine dining and a museum setting with globally inspired menus.
Look in Grünes Quartier, Kirchenfeld, Weisses Quartier, Gelbes Quartier and Rotes Quartier. The tasting-menu venues in our guide are Wein & Sein, ZOE, Steinhalle, moment, noumi, Essort and mille sens - les goûts du monde. These rooms cover starred dining, Plate-recognised kitchens and broader creative menus.
Jack’s Brasserie has Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence in our guide. Star Wine List recognition appears at La Passion du Vin, Delinat Weinbar, Klösterli Weincafe, moment, Hotel & Restaurant Bären Oberbottigen and Casino Restaurant.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Bern.
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Inside a landmark hall on Helvetiaplatz, Steinhalle holds a Michelin star under chef Markus Arnold, whose set menus rotate between South Korean, Japanese, and Portuguese reference points. The open kitchen anchors the room, while a separate easy lunch format serves the midday crowd. The on-site Finefood-Store extends the experience beyond the table.
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The vaulted stone setting, old town terrace, and courses ranging from four to six make it among the more considered dining propositions in the Swiss capital.
Bern, Switzerland
ZOE holds a Michelin star and a We're Smart Green Guide listing for its 100% plant-based menu at Münstergasse 39 in Bern's old town. Chef Fabian Raffeiner's seven-course format pairs pickled vegetables, fermented grains, and foraged aromatics with natural wines, at €€€ pricing that places it among Bern's serious fine-dining addresses.
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A hotel brasserie at Bern's Bahnhofplatz with a wine program recognised by World's Best Wine Lists with a 2-Star Accreditation, Jack's Brasserie occupies a position between the city's formal dining rooms and its more casual neighbourhood tables. The setting and address make it a natural anchor for visitors arriving by rail, with a wine list that places it above the typical hotel dining standard.
Bern, Switzerland
A Michelin Plate-recognised address on the Casinoplatz, Casino Restaurant holds a steady position within Bern's formal dining tier, applying Modern French technique to a room that carries the civic weight of its setting. It draws both local and visiting diners who want structured cooking at the €€€ price point without the waiting lists that define the city's starred counters.
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On Bern's medieval Gerechtigkeitsgasse, moment holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) while operating at a mid-range price point uncommon for that tier of creative cuisine. The address alone, cobblestones, sandstone arcades, a street that predates the French Revolution, frames the food before the first course arrives. Among Bern's creative dining options, it occupies a distinct position: serious recognition without the upper-tier pricing of peers like Wein & Sein or Steinhalle.
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Da Carlo gives Bern a measured, ingredient-led Italian address rather than a theatrical dining room. Its Gambero Rosso one-fork designation is the key signal here: a practical marker for readers looking beyond postcard Swiss dining toward a kitchen judged within Italy’s own critical vocabulary.
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Essort holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition for 2024 and 2025, placing it among Bern's more consistent performers in the €€€ international category. Located on Jubiläumsstrasse in the Länggasse district, it draws, an unusually high consensus score for a restaurant at this price tier. For Bern diners seeking serious cooking without the formality of a starred room, it occupies a dependable middle ground.
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A hotel and restaurant in the Oberbottigen district of Bern, Bären occupies a quieter residential corner of the Swiss capital while maintaining a connection to the city's tradition of neighbourhood hospitality. Recognised by Star Wine List with a White Star in December 2021, it operates as a combined accommodation and dining address at Matzenriedstrasse 35, sitting outside the old town's more heavily trafficked dining corridor.
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A Star Wine List White Star recipient at Klösterlistutz 16 in Bern's Länggasse district, Klösterli Weincafe sits in the neighbourhood wine cafe tier that Switzerland's capital does quietly well. The format centres on wine selection as the organizing principle, with food following the glass rather than the other way around. For Bern's mid-range dining scene, that inversion is the point.
Bern, Switzerland
Kurt&Kurt occupies a modest address on Aarbergergasse in Bern's old town, operating in the quieter register that defines the city's more considered dining culture. Positioned away from the tourist-facing circuits along Kramgasse, it draws a local crowd that treats the meal as occasion rather than event. For those mapping Bern's mid-to-upper dining tier, it earns its place through consistency rather than spectacle.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised international restaurant set inside the Schweizerhof-Passage in central Bern, mille sens - les goûts du monde operates at the accessible end of the city's recognised dining tier. Its broad international format makes it one of the more approachable entry points into Bern's recognised restaurant scene, sitting a price bracket below the city's modern French and creative fine-dining rooms.
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Holding a Michelin Plate for two consecutive years (2024 and 2025), noumi sits at the more accessible end of Bern's recognised dining tier, delivering world cuisine at a €€€ price point that reads as fair for the level of kitchen ambition on show. It carries genuine audience depth alongside its critical acknowledgement. For Bern's mid-to-upper dining bracket, it represents a considered option.
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A Michelin Plate recipient in consecutive years (2024 and 2025), Zum Zähringer holds a steady position in Zurich's classic French dining tier, where technique and tradition carry more weight than trend. Priced at the €€€ level, it sits alongside a cohort of Bern-area restaurants where rigorous cooking earns recognition without theatrical format.
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The venue's location places it at the crossroads of Bern's everyday commuter traffic and its more deliberate restaurant-going public, a pairing that defines much of the capital's mid-to-upper dining character.
Bern, Switzerland
The address alone signals a certain seriousness about place, a quality that runs through Swiss dining at its more considered end. For visitors working through the capital's restaurant scene, Anker is a reference point worth understanding in context.
Bern, Switzerland
Azzurro – Terra e Mare sits on Murtenstrasse in Bern's Mattenhof quarter, positioning itself at the intersection of Italian coastal tradition and Swiss ingredient sensibility. The name alone signals intent: earth and sea, the two axes around which Southern Italian cooking has long organised itself. For Bern's dining scene, where Italian restaurants range from neighbourhood trattoria to more considered modern formats, Azzurro occupies a specific register worth understanding before you book.
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On Laupenstrasse in Bern's western residential fringe, Bigote Verde occupies the kind of address that rewards the curious rather than the casual. The name alone signals a personality, playful, specific, not angling for the tourist trade. For readers tracking Bern's quieter dining side streets, this is a marker worth following.
Bern, Switzerland
Brasserie Obstberg serves French brasserie cooking at Bantigerstrasse 18 in Bern, with garden and terrace seating and a conversational room for lunch or dinner.
Bern, Switzerland
Brasserie VUE occupies a measured address at Kochergasse 3/5 in central Bern, positioning itself within the city's mid-to-upper dining tier where brasserie format meets Swiss-European ambition. The room and menu structure speak to a tradition of unhurried, ingredient-led cooking that Bern's old-town dining scene has long supported. For visitors assembling a serious table in the Swiss capital, it belongs in the shortlist alongside the city's more formally credentialed options.
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Café Postgasse occupies a historic address on one of Bern's oldest lanes in the UNESCO-listed medieval core. The café sits within a dining scene that ranges from destination-level tasting menus to neighbourhood institutions, and Postgasse 48 belongs firmly to the latter register. For visitors reading the city through its everyday eating culture rather than its award circuits, this address offers a grounded entry point.
Bern, Switzerland
Chu Garden serves Korean BBQ with Chinese influences at Seftigenstrasse 47 in Bern, with an open kitchen, terrace, and a casual, conversational pace for lunch or dinner.
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Energy Kitchen occupies a central Bern address on Spitalgasse, placing it within easy reach of the city's Old Town dining corridor. Details on format, price, and cuisine type are limited in the public record, which makes direct booking enquiry a reliable first step. For context on the broader Bern dining scene, our full guide maps the city's restaurants across price tiers and styles.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Bern.
Bern, Switzerland
Operating from Bahnhofplatz since 1859, Hotel Schweizerhof Bern is one of Switzerland's longest-established grand hotels, now part of the Bürgenstock Selection portfolio and recognised by La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels ranking with 93 points. Its position at the city's central railway square places guests within walking distance of the Zytglogge, the Rose Garden, and the federal parliament buildings. A Leading Hotels of the World member, it represents the formal end of Bern's luxury accommodation tier.
Bern, Switzerland
Directly adjacent to the Swiss Parliament Building in Bern's UNESCO-listed old town, Bellevue Palace has served as the Swiss government's official guesthouse for more than 150 years. A Leading Hotels of the World member with Michelin 2 Keys recognition, its 126 rooms combine classically proportioned interiors with Alps-facing views, while its bar and brasserie occupy a different tier from the city's other central hotels.
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A car-free Bernese Alpine village of 450 residents, accessible only by train or funicular, provides the context for Hotel Eiger Mürren, a 47-room property that has been in the same family since 1886. The hotel's two restaurants serve Swiss classics and European cooking, the ski trails pass directly outside, and the indoor pool faces the peaks. No avant-garde design; no nightclub energy. Just the mountains, reliably close.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Bern.
Bern, Switzerland
Delinat Weinbar on Spitalgasse sits within Bern's compact but serious wine bar circuit, recognised by Star Wine List in 2026. The Delinat name carries weight in Swiss organic and biodynamic wine retail, and the bar format extends that commitment into a poured-by-the-glass context. For Bern's wine-focused crowd, it occupies a distinct position between casual bottle shop and dedicated tasting venue.
Bern, Switzerland
La Passion du Vin on Schauplatzgasse 27 is Bern's Star Wine List-recognised address for serious bottle depth and wine-focused hospitality. The list spans regions and styles with a curation that positions it firmly in Switzerland's upper tier of specialist wine venues. For travellers seeking a wine bar grounded in expertise rather than spectacle, it earns dedicated attention.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Bern.
Bern, Switzerland
Rindisbacher Weinmanufaktur is Bern’s urban wine address for drinkers interested in terroir without the rural estate script. The format is intimate and appointment-led, with cellar tastings, verticals and apéro culture framed by architect-winemaker Matthias Rindisbacher’s small-batch production from Swiss regional fruit.
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