Hotel Belvedere Grindelwald

The Belvedere gives a passer-by two bookable reasons to stop. In the garden, old cabins from the Männlichen gondola seat two people for cheese fondue, served outdoors at fixed daily sittings. Indoors, the six-table «1910 · Gourmet by Hausers» is one of two Grindelwald restaurants with a star in the Guide MICHELIN Switzerland 2025; the regional tourism board lists it with 16 Gault&Millau points. It is a stop on the Grindelwald trail.

In the Fondue Gondel two people share a stationary cabin outdoors, with Swiss cheese or truffle fondue, also made without alcohol on request. The fondue menu carries no wine pairing: wine comes from the house list, which includes a Fendant Molignon Wallis AOC (Chasselas) from Adrian & Diego Mathier and a Spiezer Riesling-Sylvaner Thunersee AOC. In the «1910» room the choice is a vegetarian or a meat-and-fish menu; MICHELIN notes pairings of Swiss organic wines.

The fondue cabins take guests daily at 14.00, 16.00, 18.00 and 20.00, with no winter-only season; they stand outdoors, so the house asks for warm clothes in winter. The starred «1910» room opens Wednesday to Saturday evenings from 30 May to 30 October 2026, and Schlemmer Atlas lists it closed until 7 January 2027. Every restaurant in the hotel is closed on the evening of 31 October 2026.

Fondue costs CHF 35 a person, truffle fondue CHF 48; the two-person Fondue Tasting with one drink each costs CHF 48. Book online, by phone on +41 33 888 99 99 or by email; a credit card guarantees the cabin and a no-show can cost CHF 10 a person. The 14.00 to 18.00 sittings hand the cabin back after 1.45 hours. The «1910» menu of 6+ courses costs CHF 190, with a CHF 50 deposit per person and guests from 12 years. Details of the fondue gondola experience.

Hotel Belvedere stands at Dorfstrasse 53 in Grindelwald. Grindelwald is under half an hour from Interlaken by train or car. From Grindelwald village station the hotel is just under five minutes on foot, and it collects arriving guests there between 07.00 and 20.00, though not at the Terminal station. Drivers can park free in the hotel's own car park.

Hotel Belvedere Grindelwald is a family hotel at Dorfstrasse 53 in Grindelwald, with a MICHELIN-starred gourmet room, a restaurant serving dinner daily, and cheese fondue in old Männlichen gondola cabins outside. Part of Grindelwald since 1907, it is run by the fourth generation of the Hauser family. The hotel makes no wine; its list includes a «Jubiläumscuvée 110 Jahre Belvedere» made by Adrian Mathier, Nouveau Salquenen SA.

The Belvedere has stood in Grindelwald since 1907; in 2019 the local paper Plattform J called it the foundation of the Hauser hotelier dynasty. The house says Johann Hauser extended it in 1910, and that year's stove still stands in the gourmet room. The fondue cabins ran on the Grindelwald–Männlichen gondola, opened on 23 December 1978, until a new line with ten-person cabins replaced it in December 2019; the old cabins were offered for 500 to 600 francs each.

GaultMillau records that the cheese rinds left over from the fondue go into the gourmet menu, as the base of a sauce. On Fridays, Restaurant «Belvedere» prepares tartare at the table, a custom Plattform J already described in 2017, with the host wheeling an ingredients trolley through the room. Of the four cabin sittings, only the 20.00 one has no 1.45-hour hand-back, which makes it the unhurried choice.