Gluten-Free Travel in Switzerland: 33 Verified Addresses, 30 Dedicated

Switzerland is small, expensive, and — for a coeliac — surprisingly well provided: of the 33 verified addresses in our database, spread across 21 towns, 30 are fully dedicated kitchens. It also has a particularity no other country in our database offers: a 100% gluten-free fast-food chain installed in the railway stations, which solves the problem of the meal between two trains.

What makes Switzerland particular

Three languages, three associations. IG Zöliakie der Deutschen Schweiz in German-speaking Switzerland, the Association Romande de la Cœliakie in French-speaking Switzerland, the Gruppo Celiachia della Svizzera Italiana in Ticino. One address in our database, the Asian speciality workshop AN OTHER Glutenfree in Erlenbach, cites its certification by IG Zöliakie.

And a chain: Rice Up!, 100% gluten-free Asian bowls, present at Zurich main station, at Stadelhofen, at The Circle near the airport, at Bern station and at Winterthur station. Five addresses, one promise: build your bowl — rice, noodles or salad, meat, tofu or vegetables — in a fully dedicated kitchen, between two trains.

Where to go: the best-served cities

Zurich — 7 addresses, all dedicated — has its guide: three Rice Up!, the city’s first 100% gluten-free Italian (Granò, Neapolitan pizzas and coccoli), the French pastry shop À Vie Baked Goods, Oni Bakery on Langstrasse (gluten-free and low FODMAP) and the café-bakery Zufreeden, founded by two coeliac sisters.

Lausanne is the Swiss capital of gluten-free pastry: 4 addresses, all dedicated — the branch of Chambelland, El Gato Pâtisserie (the city’s first gluten-free and lactose-free pastry shop) and its Laboratoire in Chailly, and Elssi Pâtisserie near the Délices metro station. All on the Lausanne page.

Geneva has the Fluffy Café, the city’s first brunch spot fully dedicated to gluten-free Japanese soufflé pancakes and cheesecakes, opened in 2025; and, in Grand-Lancy, the Boulangerie Piaf, artisan, organic and 100% gluten-free.

The address that tells the country’s story

In Adelboden, in the Bernese Oberland, the Riesen bakery and confectionery has made gluten-free and lactose-free products since 1956 — a historic pioneer. And since January 2025, the family also runs a fully gluten-free restaurant, Swiss, Vietnamese and Greek cooking in the evening. Seventy years of gluten-free in a mountain resort: you won’t find that elsewhere.

In the same spirit, the Gasthaus zur Krone near Wädenswil serves a menu of entirely gluten-free Swiss cooking — cordon bleu, breaded escalopes, chnöpfli, down to the beer —, run by a chef-owner who is herself coeliac. A gluten-free cordon bleu in a Swiss inn: the kind of address that justifies a detour.

The phrases that open doors

• German-speaking Switzerland: “Ich habe Zöliakie”; “glutenfrei”; “Ist die Küche komplett glutenfrei?”
• French-speaking Switzerland: “Je suis cœliaque”; “La cuisine est-elle entièrement sans gluten ?”
• Ticino: “Sono celiaco / celiaca”; “senza glutine”; “La cucina è completamente senza glutine?”

Our travel tips

• Stations first. Rice Up! in Zurich, Bern and Winterthur: the train meal is sorted without a question.
• Lausanne for sweets, Zurich for everything, Adelboden for the history.
• Look for the three associations. IG Zöliakie, ARC, Gruppo Celiachia: an establishment that cites them has understood the subject.
• Three addresses are not dedicated — Kafi Hoi Zäme in Baden, Soul Food in Kreuzlingen, the Café d’Éthiopie in Geneva: the listing says so, the “strict coeliac” filter sets them aside.
• The country’s other dedicated kitchens, one per town: Jovi’s in Bern, Glutenfreie Köstlichkeiten in Basel, KAFKAF in Biel, Liebcake in Birsfelden, Sonja Dessert Santé in Cully, B Atelier Bistrôt in Grono, Glutenfrei Geniessen on Lake Thun, La Bio Forneria in Lugano, the Glutenfreie Brotwerkstatt in Lucerne, the gug Bäckerei in Schwyz and the Döner Hüs in Visp — a 100% gluten-free döner, opened in May 2026.
• For what “dedicated” guarantees: cross-contamination.

In short

Thirty-three addresses, 30 dedicated kitchens, a chain in the stations, a pioneer from 1956 and three languages to say the same thing: Switzerland travels well gluten-free. All 33 addresses are on the Nutrixe map — and if yours is missing, suggest it.