The House of Switzerland opened its doors to the public for the first time, in both Vancouver and Whistler on February 5th. Vancouver Access was privileged to be invited to the opening celebration.
The Swiss House is situated at Bridges Restaurant on Granville Island. The lineup to get a first look at the cultural House was out the door!
The opening was celebrated with delicious Swiss foods, chocolate, wine, music and much more! The House will be serving meals, so make your reservations now!
The House also has a media room set up to cover the Games and will have several screens set up, covering events through the Swiss television station as well as local official Olympic television station, CTV. They bragged that the Swiss station would not show nearly as many commercials throughout their coverage, as North American stations would!
The House of Switzerland will be open until February 28th. I highly recommend you go check it out and experience how the Swiss culture celebrates Olympic excitement!
For more information about the House of Switzerland, visit the Official Website!
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I went to the ‘Swiss House’ today, monday. It was remarkably faceless so to say. I lived and worked in Switzerland and also use Swiss Airlines on a regular basis for their excellent hospitality. Whoever organized this failed completely as the whole presentation has absolutely nothing to do with Switzerlands Olympic presence.
Anyway, so the arrival was around 3PM and the hostess told everyone upon lining up that there is no exhibition or pavillion – just the retaurant – and that the wait time would be 60-80 minutes (she even commented “the best wait time for 3 days”). That might have been true as most people were in larger groups 4+ however we only needed a table for 2 and got it after 15 Minutes.
They have Menus outside for the willing folks to wait and prepare themselves. The average appetizer 15$, Entree 19$, Dessert 9$ and it was not typical Swiss what you would expect at such a venue. I could have put a menu together with 4 choices each and most people would love it, maybe it wouldnt sound as extraordinary and you couldnt ask for 20 bucks per serving. Oh well… My friend ordered the sausage which was served with french fries (very Swiss). I had a late breakfast and decided for dessert only so I ordered the apple pie with vanilla ice. It was a small stripe of pie. I was not very hungry but could have easily eaten 3x that size. Waitress was not really friendliness in persona – to add 15% for that automatically is tough ! I would have tipped 10% as a courtesy but definetely not more.
Anyway – been there, done that. But I should have invested the time and money in another place ! Switzerland gave an opportunity away here !