Le Dezalèy is located in downtown Zürich and the restaurant is a 11th century Swiss-German house which has several interconnected rooms. Some rooms are decorated with modern furtinure and some are with neatly maintained old furniture. As you walk in, you see the new part on the right but I always prefer to sit on the old part which is decorated with old wood decoration. They also have a cute terrace for summer.
If you are planning to go on a Friday/Saturday evening in winter, I would recomment to make a reservation.
Fondue is originally a swiss and there are different types of it. There is cheese fondue where you put your cubed crusty bread or potatoe into a caquelon of melted boiling swiss cheese. The cheese types included in the fondue differ according to the region. In some regions it is just Gruyère and Emmental and in some regions they add Vacherin, Sbrinz or Appnezeller to it. The idea is based on mixing a hard (Gruyère) and semi-hard cheese (Vacherin, Emmental). There is also Chinoise and Bourguignonne fondues where you put raw meat into either broth (chinoise) or boiling oil (bourguignonne) to cook the meat. There's also the chocolate fondue for desert, where you put slices of fruit or pastry into melted chocolate. My favorite is the cheese fondue.
At Le Dèzaley, they offer cheese, Chinoise or Bourguignonne ones. The menu also includes other dishes, ranging from salads to sausages.
We had the cheese fondue with morels on our last visit. They bring cubed crusty bread with it but we also ordered boiled potatoes in their jackets to dip into the cheese as well. As a side dish we ordered the pickled gherkins and onions and baby maize too. The fondue was very good. It tasted mild and the consistency was very good. As for wine we had "La Tour blanche"- Assemblage blanc du pays de vaud, AOC which contains Chardonnay, Blauburgunder and Pinot Gris grapes from the Vevey town in Vaud. The price for a 50cl bottle was 35CHF.
The fondue with morcheln is around 200g per person and costs 32.50CHF. So, for the cheese fondue, potatoes, water, side dish and wine we payed 128 CHF.
Le Dèzaley
Römergasse 7+9
8001 Zürich beim Grossmünster
Tel.: 044 251 61 29
E-Mail: restaurant@le-dezaley.ch
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