Taverne 1879

Came here for dinner, great meal. The Swiss mac and cheese with the apple sauce was outstanding and the veal with with the mushrooms was good too. Great service and beautiful views. Highly recommend with reasonable pricing.

Ate at the Taverne restaurant. They serve authentic Swiss food, prepared my master chefs and very reasonably priced considering the resort to which it is attached, which caters to the rich and famous. I wasn't staying at the resort, so can't comment on that but did observe some amazing vehicles (several older Ferraris) and the inside of the main lobby - very nice indeed. Their menu changes often at the Taverne Restaurant, but the cheese and meat salad, steak tartare and the pork steak with frites, topped with a mushroom based "marsala" (best comparison) sauce was absolutely phenomenal. To work off some calories, I hiked around the estate which overlooks the lake. Overall a wonderful evening. The staff speaks German, English and French and they were attentive and very professional. Will gladly go there again given the opportunity. Compliments to the chef and all the staff.

Fantastic service — friendly, quick, and with drinks at great prices. Big shoutout to Moritz for being an exceptional waiter!

Went for lunch here on a Sunday afternoon, nice staff, Swiss cuisine😊 Thank you.

A nice place to visit. The Tavern itself is a basic place to stay with few amenities and thus leaves a bit of an overpriced impression. However, the location is beautiful and stunning. Unfortunately, there’s no room service and check in as well as breakfast are within the Waldhotel. We found that most staff are very friendly and service oriented. Paying 40.- CHF for car parking is definitely too expensive and leaves question marks…

This review pertains to the Taverne 1879 restaurant, not the hotel/resort. The simple advice is: don’t go unless your life depends on it. The food is bad, portions are tiny and the prices resemble those of Michelin star restaurants. We had to eat three main courses just to get normally full (this has never happened before). One of those dishes was a lentil stew with sausages: 30 franks for what was obviously a powdered soup with a frozen garden vegetable mix (maybe 2 franks in a local supermarket) with the cheapest sausages you can find in a supermarket - which had not even been heated properly but were served lukewarm. It is beyond comprehension why the restaurant rips customers off like that. An important upside: the front-of-house service personnel were super lovely and did an awesome job.

We just had lunch after a small hike to Hametschwand. Two of us ordered a schnitzel. It was an absolute disappointment, why even call this rectanglular piece of cheese? sausage a schnitzel?? It is as though the thing was created by an AI which has never seen a schnitzel, but has read a couple of bad descriptions of it. The service was weird too: when asked about the dish of the day the waiter literally said “it’s something something bird” O_o My drink (Apfelwein) arrived when I was almost finished with food.

This is a lovely resort perched high above Lake Lucerne with fabulous views of the lake and the mountains. A variety of hotels and restaurants make it special. The down side is that they are not well coordinated. Staying at the Taverne, the least expensive … charming... but clearly the stepchild of the group. The arrival by funicular is fun and the registration there at the Burgenstock and lakeview restaurant is impressive. Restaurants I tried were excellent and good value. Service in restaurants first rate. Excellent spa treatment but overall spa attitude needs work.||this is a concept that has great potential. I hope they work out the kinks