Mandarin Oriental Palace: Colonnade Luzern

Q: Can you dine at Colonnade without staying at the hotel?

Yes, the hotel’s restaurants welcome non-resident diners.5

Q: Do you need to reserve a table at Colonnade?

Booking in advance is recommended.5

Colonnade in Luzern serves Gilad Peled’s modern French cooking, recognised with 2 Michelin stars. If your free evening falls between Sunday and Tuesday, make other plans: those are its closing days.

Updated 29 October 20263 min readHow we write the guide

The empty Colonnade dining room, with marble columns, hanging chandeliers and mauve armchairs.

The choice, in short

Why choose Colonnade

Choose the Garden menu for agnolotti with Sbrinz, Swiss chard, mushrooms and allium.

The tasting menus

When to look elsewhere

If you may need to cancel at short notice, look for more flexible terms: cancellation within 48 hours costs 50% of the menu price, rising to 100% within 24 hours.

Booking conditions

What is Colonnade?

The restaurant is inside Mandarin Oriental Palace at Haldenstrasse 10.⁴

Born and raised in Israel, Peled trained at Le Cordon Bleu in London.¹

Before Lucerne, he led Gordon Ramsay’s Le Pressoir d’Argent in Bordeaux.¹

A request by phone

For a last-minute reservation request
For a last-minute reservation request, call +41 77 218 41 22.⁴

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3 courses from the Classic menu

From the menu

Brown crab with cucumber, Kombu Royal and Kaluga caviar.
Wild turbot with fregola sarda, Swiss chard, shellfish and seaweed beurre blanc.
Wild venison with foie gras, red cabbage, parsnip, chocolate and Pedro Ximénez.

Cheese and conditions

The cheese trolley	The Swiss cheese selection from the trolley carries a CHF40 supplement.²
Bringing a dog	Dogs are not allowed in the restaurant.¹

Rooms at Mandarin Oriental Palace

Rooms and staying here

Classic, Seasons or Garden

Tasting menu	One of the courses	The final dessert
Menu Classic	Late-summer salad with golden beetroot, fig, walnut, verjus and Seidenbüffel	Amalfi lemon with ginger, lemon-leaf crémeux and herb vinaigrette
Menu Seasons	Beef and Gillardeau oyster tartare with crème fraîche, sorrel and Osietra caviar	70% Tuma Yellow with sakura, kirsch and yoghurt
Menu Garden	White root vegetables: Jerusalem artichoke, turnip and crosne	Pompona vanilla with Diplomático rum and hazelnut praliné

Before you book

Can you dine at Colonnade without staying at the hotel?

Yes, the hotel’s restaurants welcome non-resident diners.⁵

Do you need to reserve a table at Colonnade?

Booking in advance is recommended.⁵

Can children dine at Colonnade?

Yes, from age 10. Babysitting for younger children can be requested, subject to availability.⁵

Colonnade online

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