Lausanne Palace restaurant by restaurant: La Table, Brasserie du Grand Chêne, Matcha Picchu and Côté Jardin

La Table is the gastronomic restaurant. Its page gives it 2 stars in the MICHELIN Guide and 18 points out of 20 in Gault&Millau, and describes a room with the rooftops of Lausanne, the mountains and the lake on one side and the kitchen in view on the other. Franck Pelux cooks, in a French register with contemporary pairings; Sarah Benahmed receives the guests. It opens from Wednesday to Saturday, for lunch from noon to 3pm with last orders at 1pm, and for dinner from 7pm to 11pm with last orders at 8pm.

The card is short. The menu comes in 3 lengths: 4 Moments at CHF 228 (Grisons salmon, John Dory, venison grilled over wood, and a dessert built on Alpine milk), Five Moments at CHF 255, which adds the Breton langoustine, and Six Moments at CHF 268. The sommeliers’ pairing is sold by volume: 4 dl for CHF 110, 5 dl for CHF 125, 6 dl for CHF 138. Ordered singly, the wild boar agnolotti with foie gras cost CHF 75, the venison CHF 92, the sole meunière CHF 98 and the Breton blue lobster CHF 108; cheese is CHF 28 or CHF 32 and each dessert CHF 32.

The Brasserie du Grand Chêne is the house’s everyday table and, the hotel says, a meeting place for Lausanne: locals of every generation, business people, travellers passing through. It serves without a break from noon to 10pm, and to 10.30pm on Fridays and Saturdays. The menu keeps the classics under one heading: beef tartare with chips at CHF 32 for 110 g or CHF 45 for 170 g, chicken cordon bleu with braised ham and Gruyère at CHF 34, sliced veal with mushrooms and rösti at CHF 54, Swiss perch fillets meunière at CHF 57. A line-caught sole of 450 g, meunière or grilled, is the dearest main course at CHF 78.

At lunch from Monday to Friday the Brasserie has a dish of the day at CHF 39 with a bowl of salad and a floating island: Vaud sausage with mashed potato and grilled leeks on Monday, trout fish and chips on Friday. The seasons bring their own cards. The Brasserie’s page announces a game menu «from the end of August», printing no year, with a list of 20 Chasselas and 20 Pinot Noir, and the oyster and shellfish bar is announced from 9 October 2026 to 28 February 2027, with seafood platters to eat there or take away; the Brasserie’s main card, read here in place of the separate oyster-bar menu, lists 6 Fine de Claire n°3 at CHF 28 and 6 Gillardeau n°3 at CHF 44.

Matcha Picchu cooks Nikkei food, Peruvian flavours handled with Japanese technique, from Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 2pm and 7pm to 10pm. Its menu starts with a Menu Découverte at CHF 110 per person, served to the whole table and to at least 2 guests: wagyu roll, corn torreja, sea bream ceviche, lomo saltado and 2 desserts. At lunch only there are 2 bentos, vegetarian at CHF 46 and Pacifico at CHF 49, each with a mineral water and a coffee. From the card, ceviches run from CHF 25 to CHF 31, one of them made with féra from Lake Geneva at CHF 28, and the hot dishes from CHF 34 for pumpkin gnocchi to CHF 50 for lomo saltado. The page’s own advice is to begin with a Pisco Sour.

Côté Jardin, the winter garden on the lake side, is the breakfast room: every day from 7am to 10.30am, with the Buffet Palace at CHF 49 or eggs Benedict from CHF 24. On Sundays it also holds the hotel’s brunch, at CHF 110. For a drink before or after, the restaurants page lists 2 bars, LP’s Bar and Bar 1915 in the lobby.

Guests write most warmly about La Table: in September 2026 one found it fully worth its 2 stars, on the plate and in the service, and in March 2026 another described «de véritables explosions de saveurs». Matcha Picchu was «incroyable» to a guest in March 2026. On the Brasserie the voices differ: an «excellent» dinner in July 2026, and in March 2026 a guest who felt it had lost some of its lustre in recent months. 2 guests met closed doors: one in April 2026, on a Monday evening that was a birthday, and one writing on Tripadvisor about a stay in August 2026, who found La Table, Matcha Picchu and LP’s Bar shut for what the review calls a «summer break/creative pause».

The Beau-Rivage Palace, by the lake in Lausanne, counts 4 restaurants and 2 bars of its own. Pic au Beau-Rivage Palace is its 2-MICHELIN-star room, open from Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner; Café Beau-Rivage serves brasserie classics daily; Kaigan is Japanese, with sushi and teppanyaki, from Tuesday to Saturday.

The Royal Savoy has the Brasserie du Royal, cooking by the season, and the Sky Rooftop, Italian, with views over the lake and the town; coffee and cocktails are served in the Lobby Bar or in its Japanese gardens.

Further along the lake, the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace lists the Montreux Jazz Café, La Terrasse du Petit Palais with Mediterranean and brasserie cooking over the lake, and La Palmeraie for breakfast.