Tea-room Baerenhoefli - Bern

We sampled some local cuisine of homemade sausages with steamed veg. We shared an entree a platter of meats and cheeses. 2 beers (1 x 500ml and one 300ml). 2 glasses of wine. Service was very friendly. Waiter helpful. The food was average. Tasty enough but nothing special and certainly not worth the cost. The bill was 116.60 swiss franc. That might be OK if you are Swiss or from the USA, but it represented for us average fare at AUD170. Having just spent 5 weeks in Italy where our exchange rate is even worse, we have felt it more here in Switzerland due to the poor value proposition. IE: prices of everything are inflated beyond the level of quality delivered. A coffee in Italy is €1 3, but here it is CHF 5 6. A bottle of water in the eurozone is €1 2, but in Switzerland I have paid CHF 3 6. We had hotdogs on the waterfront at Luzern today and they were tasty (CHF7 each). Back to this restaurant simple, home style meal, just not memorable. It is what we would find in a country pub at home.

Nice and welcoming place. The staff were really friendly and helpful. Very good food.

Food and ambience wonderful. If the waitress had come to our table perhaps 1-2 times more to ask if we would like anything else, sales would have been higher and our satisfaction would have been even greater.

We decided to have dinner outside at Barenhofli in Bern. It was a short walk from our hotel (located on Schauplatzgasse. This was a good decision and we had a very nice dinner at an outside table. We enjoyed a Caesar salad and a small melon salad platter. I had a dark beer with my meal and my wife had a house brewed iced tea. Ice cream was our dessert. Service was a little slow since our server was working at both outside and inside tables. The sidewalk is a busy location and many cars use the road in front so be prepared for that. We would certainly visit again.

Not quite in the middle of the dining district and thus not crowded so we got in without a reservation. Good welcome and a big room. Food concentrated on local specialities, which in this season means game. The venison geschnetzeltes was fine but not inspiring. Very good choice of wine even by the glass. Altogether a good evening. We'd go again.