Restaurant la Clémence

Well worth a visit but don’t expect to be impressed by the food (hence the reason for my 3 star rating)
Great outdoor seating and the spot to be and be seen on a Saturday afternoonin Geneva. A very busy spot (on Sat afternoon) and a seat yourself situation.
Note: given the popularity on Sat afternoons, plan to hawk other tables in order to get a table as soon as people get up from their chairs. This is the only way to do it. Otherwise, you snooze you lose. It pretty hard core :).
Prices: very inexepensive for Geneva standards.
Location: can’t get better in the center of Old Town, cobblestone streets, open air setting, alps in the distance, Lake Geneva in the backdrop… just exceptional.
Food selection and quality: not great. Menu is very limited and some food items were very good while others were terrible. For us, the cured ham sandwich on a baguette was wonderful but the cheese sandwich was terrible (basically on a hamburger bun).
Wine and beer: limited list of choices but both beers that we ordered were amazing. We had the French beer option and Prague beer option. Both were great.
Service: Really great. Friendly. Attentive and not overly invasive.
Guests: all type of people visit this outdoor café. Trendy. Rich. Casual. Families. Tourists. Locals. Europeans. Americans. English. the table next to us mixed their conversations between English, French, and Italian. Two tables over was a group of young men (maybe rugby players). The table a few spots down came with their baby in a baby carriage.
Overall, I was happy to visit this place. We had fun sitting outside and enjoying the day. And people-​watching was especially entertaining at this spot.

Any place that serves panache is OK by me.
Clemence is one of few shops lining this hilltop village square. Pretty certain the ongoing roadwork has diminished its quaintness.
Waitresses seldom greet guests at the patio so ordering at the bar is best — a basket of courtesy chocolates awaits should you need encouragement.

i was here in the beginning of May and my aunt, who lives in Geneva, was taking me around the town and wanted to avoid tourist traps. she’s been coming here for… longer than she’d admit to me! so i take her word for it!
if you’re around the Old Town of Geneva, and you want a beer where all the locals seem to convene then this is the place. true the inside is not spacious, but if you get a seat it’s definitely cozy, and the staff were pretty cool. we also sat outside and felt like part of the scene. sitting under an umbrella with plenty of sunshine and a pint of swiss beer? definitely worth it.

Ein Ort den man sicherlich nicht aufsucht um leckeres Essen, gute Cocktails oder eine saubere Toilette vorzufinden, sondern sich mit den vielen Studenten der Stadt auszutauschen!
Empfehlenswert ist hier leider nur das Bier. Aber nicht desto Trotz ein Muss wenn man neue Leute kennen lernen will.

As we were romping on our first day in Geneva, post Shawarma eating, I needed something warm and delicious in my belly. My boyfriend led us here after St. Peter’s Cathedral in the part known as Old Town. Not much in terms of seating area in the indoors, but plenty on the outside. It’s well known in this area especially in terms of their bar. Apparently the whole street in front gets covered in tables and seats in the summer warm months. I think for us indoors was the best bet and luckily enough there was a small table. We opted for a hot chocolate with whipped cream. It definitely hit the spot. That whipped cream was no fat free sugar free cool whip and that’s how I like it! Since the new no smoking indoors was in affect, I was able to tolerate sitting indoors though the smokers were just inches away from the doorway. The place was pretty busy but they eventually got our order. For about 4.20 for the traditional hot chocolate, but 5.20 with the whipped cream. Pretty pricey according to my boyfriend, no matter. It’s our «vacance»! Great pit stop to or from the Cathedral.

A tiny bar with a cozy old world atmosphere in the winter. In the summer, it spills out on to the square with umbrellas and tables. It’s extremely popular on a sunny summer day.

Lovely old bar situated at the top of the old town in Geneva. Although lovely, it can become really crowded inside and outside on the terrace and the nearby square. If you go on a sunday morning, you can have a lovely experience, to sit and have a coffee reading the days papers in the peace and quiet of a lovely old town.

Au premier soleil, les chaises poussent sur la terrasse d’où l’on a une vue charmante sur certaines des maisons les plus anciennes de la ville, et, quand toutes les tables sont occupées, on boit debout, sur le trottoir. En hiver, les habitués s’entassent dans la salle minuscule, les derniers arrivés gèlent sur le pavé. Etudiants, gens d’argent, jeunesse dorée, artistes et mondains se côtoient dans ce haut lieu de rendez vous apéritif de la vieille ville.
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