Chef Anne-Sophie Pic’s restaurant at Beau-Rivage Palace is reopening

Fifteen years after taking over the kitchens of the popular Swiss hotel Beau-Rivage Palace and following a major design-led renovation, Anne-Sophie Pic, the world’s most Michelin-starred chef, is reopening her restaurant Pic au Beau-Rivage Palace. The restaurant, which already had two Michelin stars before the remodel, hopes to receive a third star when it reopens, making it the second restaurant in Lausanne to be awarded three Michelin stars.

Pictured in the Beau Rivage Palace, Lausanne

(Image credit: Photography by Amaury Laparra. Courtesy of Tristan Auer)

Designed by French interior designer Tristan Auer, the restaurant’s interiors have been redesigned to reflect Anne-Sophie Pic’s personality and cuisine. In the entryway, a cabinet of curiosities displays some of Chef Pic’s most treasured memorabilia, including her notebook full of inspiration and a photo of her grandfather, the celebrated chef André Pic.

Flooded with natural light, the interior is airy, with soft pale pink and beige tones reflected in the rose-patterned carpet and curved ash backdrops that wrap the cabins. Auer draws inspiration from chef Pic’s cuisine and states: “The materials are simple and simple, but behind them lies an inventiveness in gesture and implementation.”

(Image credit: Photography by Amaury Laparra. Courtesy of Tristan Auer)

(Image credit: Photography by Amaury Laparra. Courtesy of Tristan Auer)

(Image credit: Photography by Amaury Laparra. Courtesy of Tristan Auer)

At Pic au Beau-Rivage Palace, chef Pic serves “sensitive and floral cuisine that celebrates the lake and the scents of the Alpine valleys.” The menu invites guests on a culinary journey through traditional Swiss dishes and the chef’s star dishes, such as her Berlingots ©ASP, filled with sheep’s cheese, flavored with saffron from the hills above the city and lavender from the hotel’s greenhouse. In season, the chef uses fish from the lake, such as fera or arctic char.

But the heart of the restaurant is the bar area, hidden behind a stained glass window, where guests are invited to try one of the dishes from the menu. The space was co-designed with Chef Pic’s Chef Sommelier Executive Paz Levinson to offer a new dining experience.

(Image credit: Photography by groupeHD)

(Image credit: Photography by groupeHD)

“The bar is an anchor point in the restaurant, a place for exchange, a common ground for liquid cuisine,” says chef Pic. It’s the perfect stage to showcase the non-alcoholic, creative drinks unique to the chef’s cuisine, such as a tomato chemex – a coffee brewed with tomato water – paired with venison served with candied tomatoes, and a chicory -Cocktail.

(Image credit: Photography by Amaury Laparra. Courtesy of Tristan Auer)

Pic au Beau-Rivage Palace is located at Chem. de Beau-Rivage 21, 1006 Lausanne, Switzerland, brp.ch

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