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The restaurants below have been grouped into four different pricing categories:
$$$$ (over CHF 180)
$$$ (CHF 110 to CHF 180)
$$ (CHF 60 to CHF 110)
$ (up to CHF 60)
These prices are for a three-course meal for one and include tax, service and half a bottle of house wine or equivalent.

Restaurant Bruderholz
A classic on the Basel restaurant scene, Restaurant Bruderholz offers haute cuisine in the French culinary tradition, and it does it extremely well. Some of the dishes served here are works of art, and the excellent wine list complements the menu perfectly. A refined and elegant restaurant, it has three separate dining rooms. In the summer, weather permiting, it is possible dine in the garden.

Bruderholzallee 42
Tel: (061) 361 8222.
Website: www.stucki-bruderholz.ch
Price: $$$$

Les Quatre Saisons
If you enjoy highly imaginative and modern cuisine, Les Quatre Saisons is the place to go. A luxurious restaurant with a Michelin star, it offers a wonderfully creative menu based on seasonal ingredients and the flavors of the region. French, Italian, Swiss and German culinary elements are combined to great effect here.

43 Clarastrasse
Tel: (061) 680 8720.
Website: www.balehotels.ch/europe/restaurant_les_quatre_saisons-en.cfm
Price: $$$

Restaurant Besenstiel
Seasonal ingredients fresh from the market are central to the exceptional Mediterranean food served at the Besenstiel. A delightful freshness and lightness of touch characterize the dishes on offer. The restaurant has a fine selection of Portuguese wines. Dining alfresco is possible in fine weather.

Klosterberg 2
Tel: (061) 273 9700.
Website: www.besenstiel.ch
Price: $$-$$$

Restaurant Safran Zunft
A charming restaurant with lots of atmosphere, Safran Zunft is located in a guild house going back to the Middle Ages. It offers flavorsome food with an emphasis on Swiss and regional dishes, such as the fondue Bacchus, the house specialty. For those who would like something more unusual there is an exciting section of South African dishes on the menu.

Gerbergasse 11
Tel: (061) 269 9494.
Website: www.safran-zunft.ch
Price: $$-$$$

Aladin Restaurant
A lovely Lebanese restaurant on Barfusserplatz, Aladin has a wide-ranging menu incorporating both classic Lebanese meat dishes and vegetarian options. Lebanese cuisine is a mix of several influences, in particular Arabic and French, and these elements come together in a creative and attractive way here. The grilled meat dishes are excellent.

Barfusserplatz 17
Tel: (061) 261 5731.
Website: www.aladinbasel.ch
Price: $$

Restaurant Pizza Bar
Located near the Spalenberg market place Restaurant Pizza Bar has seating for around hundred people and serves tasty Italian pizzas cooked in a stone furnace. The restaurant is open from lunchtime, and on Fridays and Saturdays it stays open until 0300 to cater for the city’s many hungry night owls.

Hutgasse 6
Tel: (061) 262 2030.
Website: www.pizzabar.ch
Price: $



Nightlife:

Bars: Galileo’s Piano Bar, Steinenberg 14, in the Stadtcasino on Barfüsserplatz is an intimate and elegant bar with live piano music ever evening. Café des Arts, Barfüsserplatz 6, is located nearby and is quite a fun place where people go to see and be seen. Campari Bar, Steinenberg 7, by the Kunsthalle is an elegant yet casual bar with a lovely garden. Rather more alternative is Cargo Bar, St Johanns-Rheinweg 46, a riverside bar with live music, art installations and video art. And for pub lovers, Mr Pickwick Pub, Steinenvorstadt 13, is a good English-style pub close to the Barfusserplatz with a good selection of beers and some nice pub food.

Clubs: The restaurant, concert venue and club Atlantis, Klosterberg 13 (website: www.atlan-tis.ch), is a Basel nightlife institution, very popular and with a great musical menu ranging from live blues, jazz and rock to disco and dance music. Rather more alternative and with a stronger cultural and artistic emphasis, Kaserne Basel, 1 Klybeckstrasse (website: www.kaserne-basel.ch), is still a fun place with a nice atmosphere and plenty of good music.

Live Music: Basel is a great place for jazz music. Not only does the city have its own jazz school and a jazz department at the music academy, in the Bird’s Eye Jazz Club, Kohlenberg 20 (tel: (061) 263 3341; website: www.birdseye.ch), it also has one of Switzerland’s best jazz clubs with live jazz on the program from Tuesdays to Saturdays. Young talents as well as international stars are regularly performing there. More local, but with a great atmosphere and a musical repertoire consisting of jazz, blues and rock, Culturium, Gempenstrasse 60 (tel: (061) 361 5931; website: www.culturium.ch), calls itself a jazz and social club, and that pretty much sums things up. Hirscheneck, 23 Lindenberg (tel: (061) 692 7333), has a nice restaurant upstairs and a loud rock club in the basement. A more temporary and seasonal stage is a raft out on the Rhine, which is used for concerts in summer, when the banks of the Rhine are filled with people. The indoor St Jakob Arena, St Jakobs-Strasse 395 (tel: (061) 375 1222; website: www.st-jakob-arena.ch), Basel’s ice sports arena, is used for big concerts and other events, as is St Jakob Park, the outdoor football arena.

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