The restaurant is actually a classroom. At the Berceau des sens, located in the heart of EHL (initially founded as the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne), the majority of employees are students of the establishment. During their first semester of the preparatory year for the bachelor’s degree, they carry out practical lessons in the school’s 21 workshops. They spend three weeks at the Berceau des senses: two in the dining room and one in the kitchen, within the brigade of chef Christophe Schmitt. This 42-year-old Alsatian took over the reins of the restaurant this summer, after the departure of chef Lucrèce Lacchio.
Trained in major French houses, in 2011 he won the magazine’s Hope of the Year trophy. The Chief, then the Taittinger International Culinary Prize the following year. He then managed several restaurants in France, in which he obtained a Michelin star. After an experience in Asia, between Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Vietnam, he set down his bags in Lausanne, to take on a new challenge, but also to gain in comfort of life, having become a father a little over two years ago. “I want to see my daughter grow up,” he slips.
