Vegan-friendly
Beer/Wine
Take-out
European
Non-veg

Serves meat, vegan options available. Serves lunch and dinner with vegan dishes, the recipes for which can be found on its website. This restaurant in Emmenbrücke, Lucerne, features its own vegetable and herb garden. Also open before and after theatre performances and on Sun 11am-3pm if there is a musical performance that day. Previously named Gersag. Open Mon-Fri 8:00am-11:00pm, Sat 5:00pm-11:00pm. Open every last Sat of the month.


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9 Reviews

First Review by vanessawyder

DisgruntledGoat

Points +21

Vegetarian
03 Feb 2024

Exzellente Küche und top Ambiente

Viele vegane Optionen und genug im Angebot für Tier-Esser.
Präsentation sehr schön, geschmacklichen ausgezeichnet. Die Karte lud meine sehr vegan kritische Begleiterin ein, doch ein veganes Dessert zu probieren und sie war sehr begeistert davon.
Das Restaurant hätte mehr Gäste verdient an einem Freitag Abend.

vegan-t-rex

Points +445

Vegan
06 Oct 2023

Wide vegan selection, great taste

It used to be completely vegan, but not anymore. They still have lots of vegan options including several salads, soups, dried tomato tatar, seitan cordon bleu, flammkuchen, several autumm dishes and desserts.
We had a prélude salad and pumpkin soup, two autumn dishes (rösti with mushroom cream sauce, chestnuts, red cabbage, wine pear with cranberry filling and the other one was with spaetzle and pastetli). Everything tasted great. Attentive service and fair prices. The interior design isn't my cup of tea and the chairs were a bit outdoorsy for indoor.

harrydotti

Points +276

Vegan
09 Apr 2022

Sample of good vegan options

The menu is a bit fancy, tastes really good, you need to try the sweet potato gnocchis

Mwynen

Points +262

Vegan
11 Apr 2019

Hidden gem - but unfortunately not all vegan any more!

Update 11/04/19:

We went there again recently, the food is still great and the staff was very friendly. As they now serve meat, the vegan options became somewhat limited (unfortunately no faux-meat options any more), which is a shame. But my tarte flambee was delicious and apart from the vegan dessert on the menu (there is just one on the menu now), they also had 3 vegan desserts of the day from which we could choose.

Next to the standard soap dispenser in the loo, there is also a vegan liquid soap, which is a nice touch.

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You won't stumble upon this great restaurant by chance, especially as a tourist, as it is located in the unattractive suburban town of Emmenbruecke.

But it is well worth a detour and not far from Lucerne (7 minutes by train). The restaurant is located within a former industrial park that has its own train station, so it's very easily accessible.

The evening menu used to be all vegan, but unfortunately, they added dishes containing meat, eggs and dairy. They have faux-meat as well as traditionally vegan options. Everything we had there (we were three, two vegans and an omnivore) was delicious, even the omnivore loved his faux-meat main.

For pudding, we had tasty ice cream in a pot from "The Green Fairy" (Swiss vegan ice cream brand).

Staff was very friendly and helpful.

The opening hours have since the renaming. Finally, the restaurant is also open on Saturday evenings.





Updated from previous review on 2018-09-10

Pros: delicious food, friendly staff, vegan Tarte Flambees

Cons: used to be vegan, but now serving meat

AleBaba88

Points +64

Vegan
02 Nov 2018

Veganer Traum

Zu unserem 16. JAHRESTAG haben wir im Prelude reserviert.
Das Ambiente war sehr einladend und stimmungsvoll. Die Bedienung war äussrtst aufmerksam, nicht aufdringlich und sehr für unser Wohl bemühmt.
Das Essen- begonnen mit dem Gruss aus der Küche, über die Vorspeise bis zum Hauptgang: absolut top Qualität, ausgezeichnet geschmacklich abgestimmt. Ja ein Gaumenschmaus.
Wir empfehlen das Prelude zu 100% weiter und freuen uns au den nchsten Besuch.
Note 6 mit Stern🙏👍

Pros: Ambiente,Essen,Service,vegane Seife auf dem WC😉😜

Cons: Nichts, war alles top 🔝

Rolf

Points +20

Vegan
22 Aug 2015

die Überraschung

Man erwartet nicht, in Emmen ein so tolles Restaurant zu finden. Das Restaurant ist gemütlich, modern mit schöner ruhiger Gartenterrasse.

die vegane Karte ist vom Feinsten. Tolle vegane Gerichte mit Riesenauswahl. Wir kommen wieder.

Pros: Sehr freundlicher Service, originielle und feine Speisen, schönes Ambiente

jurodrigues

Points +22

Vegan
20 Jun 2015

Great Vegan Food! Must try

we were on holiday in lucerne and the gersag was highly recommanded to us. We had dinner there and it was great. Tasty food and the stuff was really friendly. I loved the sliced "veal" with rösti. Nicely decorated and a beautiful garden.

Pros: Great Food, Friendly stuff, own vegetable garden

Cons: 4 minutes out of lucerne

Robsen87

Points +123

Vegan
31 Jan 2015

Vegan SuperHeroes

Schnell zu Mittag gegessen und schwer beeindruckt vom aufmerksamen Service und einem tolles Okra-Yamswurzel-Ragout mit Belugalinsen genossen, was wirklich Geschmacksexplosionen auszulösen vermochte! Plus Salat und Dessert für unter 20 CHF! Chapeau!
Updated from previous review on Friday January 23, 2015

Pros: - Am Abend komplett vegan, - kreative vegane Mittagsmenüs, - Superfoods erhältlich

Cons: Keine

vanessawyder

Points +21

Vegetarian
23 Jun 2014

Vegane Menues

Im Gersag haben beide Liebhaber Chancen was super gutes zu essen. Es gubt täglich Ein Veganes und ein Fleischgericht. Zudem gibt es noch eine sehr tolle und abwechslungsreiche Karte. Ebenfalls mit Veganengerichten. Die Portionen sind nicht gerade klein.
Das Personal ist sehr zuvorkommend und wahnsinnig freundlich. Tolle Atmosphäre!
Ich würde dieses Restaurant allen weiterempfehlen.

Pros: Grosszügige Portionen, Tolles Personal, Gute Abwechslung




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