- 3 rue Étienne Dumont, 1204 Genève
- Italian kitchen since the eighties
- Long wine list, regional Italian
- Lunch and dinner, closed Sunday
Da Paolo is the Old Town Italian institution that the Geneva regulars have protected from the public lists for forty years — the long pasta menu, the discreet wine cellar with the depth that the address has built across the decades, the small wood-panelled room that the bankers have kept for the long discreet lunch. The kitchen is the rare proper Italian table in Geneva that does not advertise itself.
Book the corner banquette for two, take the pasta of the day and the veal Milanese, drink the old Barolo by the glass. The dinner is the right Vieille Ville answer for the long discreet evening — and the kind of address that the visiting Milanese clients still consider the most credible Italian table in Switzerland.
The Old Town Italian on the slow Tuesday.
