Lausanne Palace brunch: Sunday at Côté Jardin, CHF 110 with a glass of champagne

The room is Le Côté Jardin, which the hotel describes as a winter garden on the lake side of the building, opening onto a large terrace and catching the first sun of the morning. Its page lists 2 services: breakfast every day and brunch on Sundays. The photograph above shows the room: green iron tables and chairs, globe lamps and a stone wall hung with lanterns.

The brunch itself is a set of buffets, sweet and savoury, that change with the season. For the autumn and winter of 2026 the hotel names mature cheeses, charcuterie, hot dishes and recipes with autumn and winter flavours. The calendar entry is titled «The Brunch - Every Sunday» and runs from 20 September to 20 December 2026; a guest reviewing in July 2026 wrote of a «Brunch d’été du Dimanche», the one sign of a summer edition in what we read.

The price is CHF 110 per person and covers a glass of champagne, tea and coffee. Children from 3 to 12 pay CHF 55, half the adult price by our arithmetic, and those up to 3 eat free. One line under the prices matters at Easter or Christmas: «Special prices for our theme brunches». Neither page read gives the dates of those brunches or what they cost, so ask when you reserve a Sunday that falls on a holiday.

On the hours the hotel’s page disagrees with itself. Its «Opening hours» box says Sunday from 12.30 to 3pm; the paragraph about the brunch, a few lines lower, and the calendar entry both say 12.30pm to 3.30pm. The French version of the page carries the same 2 times. Plan to sit down at 12.30pm and the half-hour stops mattering.

Guests divide on the value more than on the food. In July 2026 one called it a «superbe brunch» and another, the same month, a real treat. A third that month found it «beau et bon», praised staff who looked after the table closely, thought the corner where it is served rather narrow and judged it not worth CHF 110 a head. In June 2025 a guest summed it up as «fantastic views and a great brunch». The harshest account is from January 2025: bread still frozen in the middle, and CHF 28 to pay on top of a voucher for 2 people.

The Beau-Rivage Palace, on the lakefront in Lausanne, serves its Sunday brunch at La Terrasse from 12.45pm to 2.45pm for CHF 130 per person, with a hot drink and a glass of champagne; children up to 5 are free and those up to 12 pay half. It asks for dress that is «elegant and appropriate».

The Royal Savoy is the least expensive of the 4: CHF 85 per adult and CHF 45 for a child aged 5 to 12, with coffee and tea included. Starters and desserts are laid out as buffets, with a signature main dish from the chef; the page mentions no champagne.

At the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace the brunch runs from noon to 3pm, from CHF 110 per person, with children from 6 to 12 at half price and a supervised Kids’ Corner for ages 3 to 12. It is by reservation only and pets are not admitted.