Great Eats Swiss-Style (and fresh too…literally!)

So, I wanted to post a separate blog here about the food and service in Zermatt...because it deserves its own posting...it was great...really great...granted, we couldn't find a restaurant that was even close to average priced...average price there is expensive everywhere else...and expensive there is ridiculously expensive everywhere else...

anyways, we bucked up, and just ate well...and it was great...the service was always really good...it was the kind of service where they treated you like you were a guest in their house...and just catered to you and tried to anticipate what else you wanted...good stuff...

for our last night, we ate at this restaurant...Chez Max Julen...that we couldn't get into the night before cause its always packed...so, i wanted to eat seafood cause we hit the red meats pretty hard the other nights...

so, i see trout on the menu...which i would say is rare (you always see bass, cod, salmon, tuna, etc. etc.)...anyways, i tell the waitress that i wanted trout...and she says "you can pick it yourself or i can pick it for you"...at that point, i didn't understand what was going on and just nodded my head and said you can pick it i guess...i thought it was just something lost in translation or something...

we were by one of the windows...i was facing the window and m was against the window facing the restaurant...anyways, behind me, m sees the waitress take out this big ol' net...m was like "what is going on"...i turn back to check it out, and see the waitress dip the net into this big ol' tank (which i didn't even notice at all when we walked in the restaurant) and yank out my TROUT!...i was like "holy shhhhh"...that is going to be really fresh fish!!!

here is the view of the fish tank from where we were sitting...those things are huge...
and...20 minutes later...the fish is on my plate...the waitress deboned it in front of me and everything...tasted spectacular...