With Restaurant prices almost double than the United States, we found the Manora restaurants located in the department store called Manors more reasonable. The food is good with many items and affordable.

Designed as a “cafeteria,” you can go around from each station selecting the foods you want. This is extremely popular with the Swiss people, and by noon this place is packed. Either get at Manora’s early or late.

We loved the soups. The salads were always good. There is a meat selection that I always would go for especially the large sausage. With pizzas, you picked out your own items and they would make a good size pizza for you. I enjoyed the shrimp curry with rice. The desserts were always good.

Free tap water can be had. Find the glasses and somewhere there was a tap with reasonably cold water. You could purchase everything from coffee, sodas, beer and wine at Manora’s.

For two people, with good size portions, we paid anywhere from 35 to 39 Francs. Many times the prices were calculated on the size of the plate. We still haven’t figured out how they calculated everything. We enjoyed the food and knew that this was by far more reasonable than many other restaurants.

The Lucerne Manora became our favorite. We ate here not once, but three times.  We also ate at the Manora’s in Zurich, Thun, Geneva and Vevey.  Lucerne was our favorite.

It is closed on Sunday’s. The manager was extremely friendly. Pictures were allowed, at least they did not catch me, and there is an excellent upstairs outside patio area.