Chesa

Chesa

Type: Fine Dining of Authentic Swiss Food in a Cozy Chalet Setting

Location: 1/F, The Peninsula Hong Kong,

Salisbury Road, Kowloon

Chesa is one of the best dining restaurants to have romantic dinners or celebrate anniversaries.  Located at the first floor in The Peninsula Hotel, severing Swiss-like foods and global wines, whenever you walk in to this Swiss chalet, you will sniff the smell of wood mingled with strong flavor of cheese and wine, you will definitely intoxicated by this aroma and its cozy atmosphere.  The waiters there are friendly who can give you all dishes recommendation base on your preference, you can spend a relaxing night served with good Swiss food and service there at a relatively reasonable price towards other fine dinning restaurants in Hong Kong.

Bread Basket

Appetizer: Crab meat pancake with lobster-Armagnac cappuccino. (Original named as Crêpe au crabe, cappuccino à l’homardine et Armagnac) It’s a very delicious hot appetizer which the pancake roll is flooded with crab meat with the lobster sauce is just a perfect match.  

Crêpe au crabe, cappuccino à l’homardine et Armagnac

Must Try item: Hot melted cheese with new potatoes, pickled onions and gherkins (Raclette du Valais)

It is one of Switzerland's best loved national dishes.  The most famous and best Raclette cheese is made in the alpine villages in the Swiss Alps, it is warm melted cheese served with new potatoes and pickles.  People in Swiss are so lucky that they can enjoy the best melted cheese at their homeland everyday.  However, it is rare to find it in Hong Kong especially authentic Raclette cheese come from Swiss by air.  Chesa's Raclette cheese has strong cheese and milky flavor, when this melted cheese is chewing in mouth, its warm, tasty and smooth texture will impress every cheese lover.

Raclette du Valais

Main Dish: Beef cheek-au-feu with root vegetables and hint of horseradish. (Pot-au-feu au joue de boeuf, légumes racines et raifort) The beef cheek is very tender, rich and beefy, yet quite fatty.

Pot-au-feu au joue de boeuf, légumes racines et raifort

Cheese Specialities: Traditional Swiss fondue with Gruyère and Emmental, served with baguette. (Fondue Vaudoise) A rich and nourishing dish prepared with top-grade cheese that stays thick and creamy texture.  If you are not familiar with the traditional Swiss chesse fondue, perhaps may find the white wine mixed into this fondue is quite strong.  However, if you are a Swiss Cheese fondue lover, you will appreciate how traditional and tasty it is.

Fondue Vaudoise

Cheese Fondue in candlelight dinner

Very Swiss Chalet Surroundings