"La Terrace du Petit Palais is one of our regular lunch spots if we have a family gathering in or near Montreux. The service is always professional and usually pleasant. The food is always competent and sometimes wonderful. The wine list is decent, they always have our reserved table ready in our preferred spot, and of course the setting under the canopy at lakes edge is lovely. So it is an easy place to return to.Prices are what you would expect for a decent restaurant attached to a major hotel (the Fairmont Montreux Palace) in Switzerland. Clientele varies, as is the case everywhere in multi-cultural Montreux, so ask if someone is having a large children's birthday party before confirming a quiet lunch à deux. In general weekend lunches are a mix of the very young and the rather older. But weekday lunches are usually a more tranquil affair. And the restaurant is wonderfully placed to reward a healthily paced walk to the Château de Chillon and back.Recommended. (Side note: when it was too warm to sit outside on the Petit Palais terrace we used to sit in the lovely air-conditioned cafe within the main building of the Hotel. But since they have rebranded that the Montreux Jazz Cafe and darkened the decor we have found that less appealing.)"
