So, what’s the deal with Swiss Chalet?
It’s a restaurant.
It’s a family restaurant.
It serves chicken. To make things more exciting, they added ribs, and a few salads.
It’s a restaurant with a menu so limited it might as well have been FASTFOOD.
I really don’t understand why people go there. The chicken is quite blend, the spices are not spices - they’re just salty. The gravy (chalet sauce) is too tangy for chicken, and the smoky gravy (served with dark meat) tastes like Chinese chicken drink (gai jing) with flour. The meat is consistently overcooked, the ribs way too small, the salads often overly acidic (that’s what happens if youd don’t DRY your greens properly before tossing in dressing, btw) and the coffee dreadful.
Stu loves the place. The question isn’t whether they serve bad food - it’s not bad. It’s just bland. The service is splotchy, sometimes good, sometimes horrible. Yesterday it was on the level that the waitress consistently forgot about spoons, cutlery, and butter. What’s good about bland? What’s there to like?
February 15th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Doesn’t sound like good food to me. We don’t have Swiss Chalet up here in Massachusetts….and looks like that is a good thing!
February 21st, 2006 at 4:13 am
wonder why people pervert the Chalets?
back here, the real ones are just for display - unless it’s your’s… they’re one the moutain roadsides.
and they don’t serve chicken.
we have Bratwurz or Schubligs, Röstis and Raclettes and Fondue.
theer you go. that was my informational bit of the day… ahahahahah.
February 21st, 2006 at 10:03 am
My mouth waters. Mmmm.
In North American Swiss Chalet is a chain restaurant - one step up from fastfood. They serve mostly chicken with “chalet sauce.”
I always wondered what the history of it is, really.