3 Best Restaurants in Appenzell, Eastern Switzerland

This is a mountain restaurant where you come for the views and stay for the Appenzell cheese dishes and cervelat (Swiss sausage). Since it's accessible only by cable car plus a 20-minute hike, you'll have earned your meal at this cliffside café, which sits in the middle of the Appenzeller Alps. Here, you'll be treated not only to sweeping views of the cool green valley below, but to locally made sorbet, too.

The 450-year-old cellar underneath the Adler Hotel on the edge of Appenzell town is the place for fondue in the winter. Carved-wood-paneled walls, a dark medieval room, and ancient glassed-over cobblestones are a bit chilly and museumlike, but the friendly service and excellent local wine list will warm you right back up.