Café Pernet Pub, Bistro, Brasserie

Comment This restaurant has been on my mental (sorry Itaste you did not exist yet then) list of places I want to go. Its decor is sleek and designer and walking by it looks like such a cool place to hang out for a coffee and what is more they serve food.

So it was with some delight that I went there today. An interesting menu with some unusual dishes all focused on Italian food and pasta in particular which was just fine with us. A bit pricey but then what isn't in Gstaad. NIce chairs and nice feeling inside.

The place was full and it looked like one of those days when a waiter has not showed up as the staff was stressed but as it emptied out they "found" time for us and we ordered.

Besides the fact that the salad never showed up and that my wife's pasta was cold (they immediately made a fresh plate) you had a mixed impression of the service. Not what you would expect for a restaurant with these prices which, although not super expensive are at the higher end of what you pay for 8 ravioli.

The food was good "sans plus" which is such a shame as you feel that if they got the food and service right they would have a gold mine here and one that people would actually walk away from saying, wow I want to come back. (They also forgot the second bottle of water we asked for and a second waiter asked us if we wanted to order when we had already ordered....).

Anyway I have given it 13 knowing it could be a 15 or 16 but that currently it is more of an 11 if what we experienced today is anything to go by. I would go back to give it a second try just in case we had a particularly bad day.

Parking easy under the ice-rink.

To be improved The food was OK, the menu fun, but the delivery was OK if you do not consider that it is charging on the high end in which case service drops to "failure".