Half-wheels of Raclette du Valais cheese melted under a heat lamp and scraped onto boiled potatoes with cornichons, pickled onions and dried meats; in Switzerland we have verified places to eat it in Zurich. Start with where to eat Raclette in Zurich.
Raclette · Zurich
Half-wheels of Raclette du Valais cheese melted under a heat lamp and scraped onto boiled potatoes with cornichons, pickled onions and dried meats.
Raclette comes from the verb racler, to scrape, and was first recorded as a shepherd's meal in the Valais Alps in the medieval period. The cheese was melted by the fire and scraped onto bread. Zurich's old-town raclette cellars adopted the dish in the twentieth century with the same canonical sides: boiled potatoes, cornichons, pickled silverskin onions, sometimes Buendnerfleisch on the side. The half-wheel under a vertical heat lamp is the classic restaurant service. A Valais AOP designation has protected the cheese since 2003; outside the region it is sold simply as raclette cheese.
Where to eat in Zurich:
- Le Dezaley
- Restaurant Swiss Chuchi
Where to eat Raclette in Zurich: the editor picks