Switzerland and the Best Pasta I Have Ever Had

My first meal in Zermatt was just unforgettable

One of the great things about eating is the whole experience of it. It’s not enough to have a good meal combined with the best drinks. The place, the music, the service — everything counts. That’s what happened in my first meal in Zermatt, a charming little town in Switzerland where my wife and I spent our honeymoon.

I got married in 2019, and we decided to spend more money on the honeymoon trip than spending on the wedding party. I have already told about it in the previous piece, Switzerland — The Most Wonderful Place on Earth.

Arriving in Zermatt

We left Brazil and headed to Milan, IT, to spend the night. Our train to Zermatt would depart the next day at 12h23. We had the idea to go out and have dinner to see at least the surroundings of our hotel since our stay there would be so short.

Guess what happened?

We overslept because of the jetlag. We missed breakfast at the hotel and headed straight to Milano Centrale. That was the first time we would take a train in Europe. It’s not easy for Brazilians, trust me. We don’t have organized trains here.

Everything worked out fine though, thank God. After 4 hours or less, we arrived in Zermatt.

The picture is not very good, as we were tired, carrying a bunch of luggage, and starving as well.

Finding the best pasta

Remember I said we missed our breakfast at the hotel? We didn’t have lunch or anything. It was almost 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and we ate nothing for the whole day.

We got to the Hotel Ambiance Superior — a lovely place that my wife carefully chosen for our honeymoon — checked in and decided we had to go somewhere to eat.

We left our bags in our room and went to browse the city for some food. A few meters from the hotel, we found it. Pizzeria Roma, a small and cozy pizza place. We got it. We are not very fond of pizza, but we were about to faint.

A nice couple welcomed us and got us a table. The husband was an Italian cook, and his wife, who was in charge of waitering, was a very polite Portuguese woman named Fernanda.

When we said we were from Brazil, she immediately started speaking Portuguese with us. It was such a cool connection.

Brazilian Portuguese is different from Portugal’s, but we were still able to communicate with no embarrassment of misunderstanding each other.

It was a pizza place, but they also had other types of pasta. Let me tell you that meat-sauce spaghetti is my favorite food. Guess what lovely Fernanda offered us? Yes, that’s right. My favorite food in the world.

This is how happy I was. I must have drunk up this beer in a matter of seconds. We could not believe we were in a restaurant in Switzerland.

I love cooking, and as I said before, the food is not the most crucial thing in a meal. Every time someone comes to my house, I try to create the best experience with good music, lighting, smells, and of course, good food.

In Pizzeria Roma, we had it all, and we were also starving, which really helps when trying out some different food.

I still remember the taste of the tomatoes in the sauce dressing that delicious pasta in perfect combination with beer, the best company I could ever ask for in the most beautiful place in the world.

After eating, we went for a walk to get to know the city, but I will talk about it in my next piece.

Stay tuned for some more Switzerland stories.

Thank you for reading.

If you want to read the first piece of this Switzerland series, you can read the following post in The Masterpiece.