Even The Best Laid Plan Can Be No Match for Swiss Mother Nature

Today was my mom's last day in Switzerland. My parents and my brother came to Switzerland to give moral support to my sister and her family since my niece was having a surgery to fix her backbone after she was diagnosed with Scoliosis.

We had made a reservation in a Japanese restaurant in town but because of the weather we decided to cancel it and have lunch somewhere closer to home. Since I live less than ten minutes away from the airport, we decided that it was the easiest place to go. Also, my mom had to check in her luggage it was like killing two birds with one stone.

After all of the check in rituals had been done we had not yet decided where we would eat lunch. I asked if anybody was in the mood to have Italian food as I was in the mood for Pizza, but my wife voted against it. She said that she was not in the mood for Italian.

So we decided to eat in a restaurant that we had never been before called La Rôtisserie which is actually situated in the shopping gallery of the Geneva Airport. It looks chique, I saw numerous parties hosted in the restaurant, so I thought it couldn't be that bad. After skimming through the menu we all decided to have one of the "Menu du Jour" which was Poulet Rôti Forestier (grilled chicken with mushroom sauce).

I was thinking that it would be a nice piece of grilled whole chicken leg or the front quarter of a chicken drenched in mushroom sauce. What came on our plates were completely different from what I imagined. My daughter loved the mushrooms, she ate up the salad that came with the dish and some fries, but she wasn't so keen on the chicken

It was a rolled up chicken cut to medallions. I can't complain much, because chicken is chicken. Whole, smashed, rolled up, broiled, fried, grilled rotisserie style or with a flamethrower...it's still chicken. Plus, my daughter was a bit cranky, my mom was leaving to go back to Indonesia, the weather was not the greatest which made us all feeling weak and tired. In short it was great that we could get out and have lunch on my mom's last day in Switzerland but it was not a cheerful outing that we all hoped for.

I would probably feel more cheerful if we had gone to the Japanese restaurant...or maybe not. Curse you Swiss weather...!! :-)

La Rôtisserie

Route de l'Aéroport 25

1215 Genève 15 Aéroport

Switzerland

Phone: 022 798 11 30