Swiss Bear Restaurant & Bakery

This is just on the schnitzel express part —
Positives: schnitzel on the go is a GREAT idea! Beats all the burgers and crap otherwise available on the way to or from cottage!
Coleslaw was tasty — wish there was more! Fries were okay.
Staff is great — super friendly and attentive. Offered just about anything to make it enjoyable and checked up on us as we were eating. Eating area nice and clean.
Downside — (easily fixable) schnitzel wasn’t as crispy as I’d normally expect. I understand it was probably not meant to be Vienna style but that’s really what I was hoping for. Maybe make Vienna style an option with nice crispy coating.
Love that tarts are available at the express counter!

Working hard family with amazing service, you will see the restaurant with full of stuff bears and frames of bear. Good place to stop by and enjoy the food with. Atmosphere is friendly and beautiful !!

So we stopped here for lunch on our way to a family event out of town. I had the weiner schnitzel Parisienne (with stewed apples and coleslaw) which was fantastic. Our server was young, a little nervous and very sweet. It was busy and there was only one server when we arrived (serving both sides of the restaurant) but it’s a very friendly, clean and welcoming place. The owners are Swiss and the husband is a certified Swiss chef. The pies (baked on the premises using fresh fruit and little sugar) looked absolutely fantastic (so perfect that they could have been fake), so we decided to stop back the next day to pick up some pastries. We stopped in and there were gorgeous pecan pies all over the displays, as well as freshly baked danishes. The tarts caught our eye and I got a cherry one, the boyfriend got a raisin butter tart and a pecan tart. Oh, and I got a peach pie (which I will likely try it tonight, am hoping it’s not as good as the cherry or I’m in trouble), which looks gorgeous and smells fantastic! It was still hot out of the oven when we got it. So the cherry tart? It was so deep and fantastic that the tartness of the (fresh!) cherries combines with the sweetness of the sugar and the perfect ratio pastry to fruit made me regret not buying a dozen! This place is an absolute food gem and I look forward to making excuses to come out this way (it’s a gorgeous drive from Toronto) so we can eat here again!

We stopped for brunch on a Monday. My husband had their eggs benny with a schnitzel and I had a schnitzel sandwich. Both came with rosti potatoes that were yummy and a small serving of fruit. The plates were hot and the servings were extremely generous… we both ate too much, it was that delicious. Very nice place and really, really clean. I would highly recommend this little restaurant. We’re looking forward to trying their dinner menu.

We were traveling through the area and stopped on a whim and boy was I glad we did! We ordered 3 fruit tarts: Cherry, peach raspberry and apple… each one was delicious! We took them to go and decided to eat on the picnic table outside, that was the right choice for sure since the yummy, delicious and oh so crumbly streusel topping was all over the place when we were done. It was about closing time and the owner and her son came out to check on us to be sure we didn’t need anything before they left, they were extremely nice and we chatted with them for a while. They had a special where you order 6 tarts, pay for 5 and no tax. The rest of our trip I wished we took them up on the offer since one was just not enough!