As sure as night follows day, restaurants in Geneva always ask if you've booked. Even if all their tables are empty and it's clear to see that you are the only customer they are likely to have all evening.
So it's nice to find that for once it was worth the phone call. Le Thé, tucked away behind the concrete delight that is Plainpalais, is so revered for its delectable dim sum that only a fool would try to turn up without booking.
The six or so tables are tucked between oriental screens and the wall, which is decked with precariously placed Chinese teapots. Of course, at a place called Le Thé they are quite big on tea.
We had a jasmine variety which went very nicely with the steamed buns and dumplings... when they eventually arrived. Rarely have I been so ravenous; the wait was like torture as we watched other earlier arrivals tucking in with glee as the only cook in the kitchen slaved away and the lady owner waited the tables as slowly as a snail.
And the tea only made me hungrier, meaning that when the food came I wolfed it down in a frenzy, as did Monsieur Gourmand, so we can't really remember what it was like.
I'm pretty sure we were impressed - and surely all of those people that book all the tables every night can't all be wrong - but, wary of having to wait an age on uncomfortable metal chairs with barely enough room to swing a Peking duck, I doubt we'll go back.
Le Thé, 65 rue des Bains, 1205 Genève
+41 (0)794 367718
So it's nice to find that for once it was worth the phone call. Le Thé, tucked away behind the concrete delight that is Plainpalais, is so revered for its delectable dim sum that only a fool would try to turn up without booking.
The six or so tables are tucked between oriental screens and the wall, which is decked with precariously placed Chinese teapots. Of course, at a place called Le Thé they are quite big on tea.
And the tea only made me hungrier, meaning that when the food came I wolfed it down in a frenzy, as did Monsieur Gourmand, so we can't really remember what it was like.
I'm pretty sure we were impressed - and surely all of those people that book all the tables every night can't all be wrong - but, wary of having to wait an age on uncomfortable metal chairs with barely enough room to swing a Peking duck, I doubt we'll go back.
Le Thé, 65 rue des Bains, 1205 Genève
+41 (0)794 367718
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