Summer is coming to an end. But where to continue to remake the world over a drink until very late? Our selection of successful bars.
The LCC. Grands crus and cocktails until the end of the night
It was in 2019 that Stéphane Wyssa and two associates launched the “Lausanne Cocktail Club” in the heart of downtown Lausanne, a stone’s throw from Place Saint-François. “As we approached quarantine with children, no longer old enough to go to disco, we wanted to create something else,” smiles Stéphane. The success is there. From a clientele of lawyers and bankers for the aperitif, the atmosphere becomes more festive until the end of the night in a cozy decor. On the menu, which is renewed three times a year, the great vintages rub shoulders with house cocktails, including the sulfurous Al Capone.
The 5th. The favorite of young people
Located in the old post office, next to Vevey station, the 5th is the favorite meeting place for young people on the Riviera. Sofas, lamps, most of the furniture was salvaged from the old Beaulieu theatre, which gives a vintage feel to this huge bar with its ceiling rising to more than four meters. You can play darts, table football and exhibitions and concerts are organised. At the end of the week, on long high tables or in more intimate corners, we reinvent the world, with beers galore accompanied by homemade burgers including the one with morels. “Sometimes there are too many people,” smiles Cédric Schaer, one of the bosses.
Scoundrel Club. Chilli in Freiburg
If the brothers Stéphane and Jean-Christophe Jaton, very active in local life, created the “Crapule Club” in Friborg three years ago, it was to “get the nightlife moving”. The only cocktail bar in town, chic and relaxed, it recently received 92 points out of 100 in the magazine “Falstaff” which lists the best bars in the world. “We are very happy,” notes Victor Topart, the director. Composed of a vodka infused with lemongrass, cucumber and basil, the “Wild Mule” is the star cocktail of this bar “open late enough to catch the first bus in the morning”, rejoices a surfer.
Monique’s Glass. Belle Epoque Glamor
With its 1920s atmosphere, the very chic “Verre à Monique”, located near the plain of Plainpalais, has been “the best cocktail bar in Geneva” for more than ten years, sums up a regular. On the menu, two absolute musts: the Malice in Wonderland, enhanced with jasmine tea and the Karma with its liquorice powder. Behind the bar sometimes operates Marian Beke in person, star of London mixologists. “We are very happy,” rejoices Helen Calle-Lin, the director, known in Geneva and elsewhere for her original projects. The latest: the launch in the heart of New York, with Vaudois winegrowers of “The Lavaux”, a wine bar that is a hit, even at 25 dollars a glass of Dézaley.
