Schäferstübli Schäferstube

Amazing food, ambience and service! Best dinner in zermatt! Excellent wild game, delicious raclette and outstanding desert.

If we lived here we’d be regulars. They have a great selection of regional and seasonal specialties, including local game and lamb from the owner’s herd of black-​nosed sheep. As with Swiss cuisine in general there’s a lot of meat. Vegetarians can of course find lots of cheese and potatoes (Raclette is really good here), but vegans won’t find much to eat aside from salads.
We went twice in a week and would go again if we could.
I suggest you make reservations although we were seated without them, but we are lucky people.

We wanted cheese fondue, so asked few Swiss people for good restaurant, and this place was recommended.
We ordered Salad Composition with cheese fondue. Salad was tasty and filling with assortment of cucumber, red onion, celery, pear (could be pineapple).
Cheese fondue was good without overpowering cheese taste. I was too full to finish it, but they gave us more than enough bread pieces.
The place was booked with reservations, but we got the table without reservation as we arrived 10 minutes before opening. I heard people coming back for more of good food.
The place is very cozy and welcoming. I can see why the place gets booked out.

I highly recommend everyone who travels to Zermatt to try this restaurant. Paul took very good care of us and so did our waitress Daniela. Each table has a little book about the history of the hotel and restaurant. It is a family owned business which provided the personal attention one would only find from a family owned restaurant.
Our first visit to Schaferstube (correct spelling) we tried the Raclette and Cheese Fondue which we’re both delicious. The Cheese Fondue was 25CHF for a very large portion. The Raclette was all you can eat for 40CHF. The Raclette also came with a cured meat plate and a very nice fruit plate for dessert. We liked it so much we went back to try the lamb which is what they are known for. Paul raises the sheep up the hill in Zermatt. I sampled each plate from our party of six and enjoyed each one. The plates I sampled included the lamb sausage, lamb chops, lamb knuckle and lamb burger. All of which were excellent.

Cadre charmant typique de Zermatt, serveuse en habit traditionnel. Des viandes cuites au feu de bois, à tester le chateaubriand et l’agneau. Une belle carte des vins suisses et étrangers.
Il faut absolument réserver à l’avance, car souvent complet.

Below the Romantik Hotel Julen you’ll find some very good food that is just what your hungry stomach will be demanding after a day on the slopes. We stayed in the hotel and and so we enjoyed getting food delivered to our suite.
Back-​to-​back nights of having the grilled lamb chops proved their spectacular flavor is not an accident. They are from the restaurant’s farm and run approximately $ 50 for the entrée but they are delicious. They are cooked perfectly and are plump and succulent.
Other favorites we found were on the starter menu: 1– a large fried «ravioli» (looked more like a huge empanada) stuffed with sauerkraut and chunks of bacon atop a zucchini doused with a delectable brown sauce, and 2– a cheesy spinach-​y «dumpling» atop a gentle tomato sauce (this dish was a special for one of the nights we ate here and is not on the regular menu). Both of these were wonderful and were prime examples of elevated comfort cuisine.
The soups were a bit hit or miss– one night was delicious and the other mediocre. The dessert we tried– the slice of raspberry quark– was good but not great.
Note that if you stay at the Julen, you have the option for rolling a prix fixe into your rate and it is a good deal in terms of price; however, we did this last year when we stayed here and we found the food mediocre and the service a bit not so good. This year, we skipped the prix fixe and enjoyed the food we ordered (a la carte) much better. It was more expensive but much more enjoyable to eat.
As I said, we enjoyed our dinners upstairs in private, so I cannot speak about the service; however, if it is on par with the morning crew who serves breakfast, you’ll have no complaints.

Sensationelles Raclette, in Verbindung mit einem leckeren Fendant das sogar zu einem tolles Preis-​Leistungsverhältnis. Sehr leckere Lammgerichte vom offenen Grill. Eine Reservation ist meistens erforderlich.

daniela führt das restaurant mit viel liebe und bedient auch selbst. das essen ist gut und die preise fair. reservation am abend zwingend.