Where we cook around the lake
Geneva is two places at once for a chef, and which one you are in decides how the evening runs. Along the right bank the houses sit above the water at Cologny, Vandoeuvres, Collonge-Bellerive, Anieres and Hermance: kitchens built for cooking, and terraces that will hold a long table until the light goes. The left bank does the same thing heading the other way, through Pregny-Chambesy, Genthod, Bellevue and Versoix, and the cantonal border stops meaning very much once you are past Coppet and Nyon.
Then there is the city itself. Apartments in Eaux-Vives, Champel, Florissant and the Vieille-Ville, where the kitchen is small, the lift is slow and the night depends on what the chef carries up on the first trip. Carouge, over the Arve, is its own thing again. None of this is a problem once it is known in advance, which is why we ask what floor you are on before we ask anything about the menu.
