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Six courses. Cooked in the open.

Alain Lerjen and Maison 13 bring the kitchen into the middle of the vineyard.

The courses are made in front of you. Plating happens right at the open stations.

( The choice )

Meat or vegetarian.

You decide when you book.

The vegetarian version runs through the whole menu. The choice is binding, it steers the kitchen’s buying.

Vineyard house at the Clos du Cornalin above Salgesch, behind it the Rhone valley in morning light

Plating happens in front of you.

Open stations at the vineyard house
( The chef )

Plating happens in front of you. Open stations at the vineyard house.

Alain Lerjen in profile in a white chef’s jacket, the rock face behind him

Alain Lerjen

Kitchen · Maison 13 and Soulfood

Alain is a chef from Zermatt, running his own Soulfood and part of the Maison 13 team. He likes cooking for people. And he likes being where the cooking, the serving and the talking happen.

Gault Millau wrote in 2021 that he loves to cook and just as gladly stands at the front. That is exactly what he brings to the Clos du Cornalin on 19 September.

No buffet

Alain Lerjen does not cook behind a door. He stands where the guests are.

Plated fresh

The courses are plated, announced and handed out directly.

No finished plate

Nothing waits for you. The kitchen is part of the day.

Allergies

Report them by 15 September, as a reply to the confirmation mail. More questions under Practical.

( Origin )

From the Valais.

The produce tells its own part of the story.

Mund saffron

From Mund, the only saffron village in Switzerland.

Eringer

The meat of the Valais cattle breed.

The cheese

Valais alpine cheese, melted and slipped into warm bread.

Wild berries

For the finish.

The wine

From Fernand Cina’s own vines, 20 hectares around Salgesch.

One welcome. Six courses. Seven wines.

CHF 145.00 per person, 50 places at most. 19 September 2026, Clos du Cornalin above Salgesch. Booking until 15 September.

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