Switzerland Guide
Ostschweiz and Liechtenstein
Eating
1 Am Gallusplatz Gallusstrasse 24 
071 223 33 30 
www.gallusplatz.ch The city's best restaurant, serving high-quality French cuisine amid suitably stout decor. Your best option is to come for lunch, when menus are lighter in tone and cost less (around Fr.25). In the evening, expect Fr.50-plus. Opening time: Tues-Sun, closed Sat lunch
2 Da Franco Webergasse 23 A decent Italian, with loads of pastas and pizzas, plus a choice of 25 different risottos. Eat well for Fr.18.
3 Hörnli Marktplatz 5 071 222 66 86, www.hoernli.ch . Easygoing restaurant specializing in market-fresh salads and delicious rösti, with some menus around Fr.15. Its fondues – served all winter long – are delicious local varieties, with Williams (pear schnapps) or Kirsch (cherry schnapps). Also several beers on tap.
4 New White Swan Metzgergasse 24 Fast-paced little diner serving up huge portions of steaming Asian-style stomach fillers to students and others on tight budgets.
5 Seeger Oberer Graben 2 www.seeger-restaurants.ch Elegant big-windowed café with inexpensive food, playing classical music during the day to a twenty-something crowd relaxing on the leather sofas inside, or at tables on the pavement terrace.
6 Zum Goldenen Schäfli Metzgergasse 5 071 223 37 37 Best known of St Gallen's upper-floor restaurants, with low ceilings, wood panelling all around and creaking floors. The food is all hearty local fare, with plenty of offal on the menu – the house speciality is calf's liver – and other local dishes such as sautéed lake fish. Menus start from a very reasonable Fr.15 or so. Opening time: Closed Sun in summer