My Lunch Sizzles

Epagny La Croix Blanche offered two rooms: one for eating fondu, and one for all the other diners. This is because the fondu cheese has a strong smell. We opted for the non-fondu option.

I ordered the “travers de porc” (pork ribs) for 31 CHF. This came with sweet and sour sauce, buttered noodles, and steamed vegetables on the side.

This was a lot of food for me but I managed to eat most of it before passing it off to Sev. I thought everything tasted exceptionally good, I was even surprised by how flavorful the steamed vegetables were.

Sev ordered the “steak mixte,” featuring beef, horse, and pork on a skewer for 35 CHF. His also came with fries and the steamed vegetables.

Before we got our food we were given paper to protect our clothes because the meat was served on extremely hot rock plates. Both of ours were sizzling so much the juice would have gotten on our clothes.

My food came already cooked through, but Sev’s beef and horse steak needed to lie on the rock longer to finish cooking, and he could flip it to even out the cooking with the skewer.

Although he was told before hand it would be like this, Sev didn’t really like waiting to eat and would’ve preferred to have gotten it already cooked. He did say that the meat was excellent though and he thoroughly enjoyed the taste.

We both also got a glass of local red wine (6 CHF) and split a bottle of sparkling water (5.60 CHF).

After we finished we got a small plate of cheese—Gruyères and Freiburger Varcherin. This was my first time trying either and I loved them! Especially the Varcherin, that was such a delight.