It all began in 1892, when our great-great-grandmother Rosa Danioth, together with her husband Angelo Cassani, decided to take over the historic Pension Suisse. The building consisted of two floors, once used as port warehouses and a dock area, directly overlooking the old harbour. Together, the couple built the dream of a lifetime, abruptly interrupted, however, by Angelo’s death in 1899. Rosa’s mother, Josepha de Regula, a Swiss noblewoman who had been disowned due to her marriage to a wealthy bourgeois, inherited a substantial estate as her only surviving child among seventeen. With this inheritance, she chose to support her six surviving children, including Rosa. Widowed and with three children born between 1892 and 1899, Rosa decided to invest her dowry in purchasing the small guesthouse and to continue the dream she had shared with her late husband. She invested, expanded, and developed the property, adding two additional floors over the years and introducing a restaurant service. Here we are today, more than a century later, carrying forward this legacy, marked by distinguished guests (including the Royal Families of Savoy, Denmark, Sweden, and Russia), high-profile catering (Churchill, Eisenhower), and countless celebrity dinners, still guided by the same spirit of warm, attentive, and personalized hospitality that has always defined us. A restaurant whose walls tell a rich and complex story, having lived through two world wars, military occupations, economic crises, revolutions, and pandemics. One constant remains: genuine hospitality and a deep vocation for welcoming guests. Today, as then, the fifth generation is ready to welcome you with open arms. If you are curious, discover more in our book. Ask the staff for more information or contact us by email.