Luciole

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Luciole, La Chaux-de-Fonds: Vegan Tasting Menu with Gault&Millau 14 Points

Luciole, a vegan restaurant at Rue Daniel-Jeanrichard 19 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, serves a seasonal plant-based tasting menu and earned 14 points from Gault&Millau in 2026. The kitchen works with a short list of regional suppliers and changes its menus every month.

Two cooks, one small kitchen

Welsh-born chef Daniel Baker runs the kitchen with his partner, Anne-Gabrielle Dubuis, who leads the front of house. The restaurant keeps its scale deliberately small and seats a limited number of guests. Its ingredients come from local growers, and it holds a BioSuisse certificate.

Plates worth ordering from the tasting menu

Reviewers singled out a kohlrabi sliced paper-thin and flamed with a torch, served with Zurich wasabi, seaweed and lemon gel. A carrot course returns to the same vegetable in several forms: mousse, tartare, pickles, and a pesto made from carrot tops, lifted with cinnamon, fig leaf and elderflower. The dessert, with melissa, dill and makrut lime, was judged less harmonious than the rest of the meal.

A small room with a glass kitchen

The dining room feels intimate and a little nostalgic, with the compact kitchen visible through glass. Diners choose between a ten-course and a fourteen-course menu. Michelin lists Luciole as Recommended for 2026.