La Vache qui Vole

Valais


The Flying Cow is a gallery-style wine bar with an angelic cow strung from its ceiling and a Virgin Mary collection upstairs. World cuisine is its culinary stomping ground – creative salads, pasta and risotto jostle for taste-bud time with curries and raw fish – and the wine list is packed with Valais wines. End with lemon-lime sorbet doused in limoncello.


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