EATING IN – take-away food delivery companies in Geneva
by Alexandra Belz and Chené Koscielny
Fancy staying at home in your woolly socks in front of Netflix and treating yourself to a take-away meal in Geneva tonight? Options for take-away meals delivered to your door, including the healthy variety, have proliferated in the last couple of years in the city and if you’re based near or in Geneva city centre, you can pretty much order any meal you want and have it delivered to your door in no time. Or can you? On the down side, if you’re more than spitting distance from the centre of town you may just have to stick to supermarket pizza or home-made dinners for now.
HOW IT WORKS
Most food delivery companies in Geneva work in the same way:
You download the APP or go on the website, become a member and in most cases entrust the delivery companies with your credit card details for any future order.
Enter your delivery address and choose your poison from the generated list of restaurants that deliver to your area or choose by food type. You are usually guided throughout your order and you can check with a real-time tracking system when your order will arrive.
BEST FOOD DELIVERY OPTIONS IN GENEVA
SMOOD – the best restaurants, good service and actually delivers to our area!
Smood promises to deliver within 45 minutes unless indicated before you make the order. They offer plenty of choices of the very best Geneva restaurants (the list is updated all the time), such as Five Guys, Pane & Olio, Luigia, Pekin Palace, Chez Philippe, Granola, Black Tap, Chez ma Cousine, Demi Lune Café or Pizzeria Molino just to name a few.
Type of food: American, Asian, Italian, Vegan, Bio
OUR VERDICT
We have used SMOOD several times and find them to be reliable with an excellent choice of restaurants, including many of our favourite health food options such as Green Gorilla and Ou Bien Encore. The service has always been fast and we love the little icons on the site for reviews, minutes left to order and flash sales. Very user-friendly, good images on the site. Excellent choice and good service. Our favourite by a mile. It helps that they are just about the only one delivering to our area!
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Online ordering via website or APP in English
2YOURDOOR
They offer delivery in below one hour and you have the choice of over 400 restaurants, as well as bakeries, butchers, flower shops, wine shops, electronic shops and even pharmacies.
You can also buy groceries from Geneva supermarkets (eg. Coop and Migros) and get them delivered to your doorstep.
Popular restaurants are Holy Cow, Five Guys, McDonalds, Vapiano, Capocaccia, Hungky to name a few. The list is constantly updated).
Type of food: Asian, Italian, Chinese, American, Vegetarian, Halaal, sandwiches, etc.
OUR VERDICT
Over 241 restaurants in Geneva – although quite a few obscure restaurants and missing some of our favourites. The display is a bit busy and the choice overwhelming. Also shows you how minutes left for ordering and ability to pre-order for the next day. On the expensive side and not a brilliant service track record. We like that you can get your groceries delivered on the same day – and apparently within an hour, though.
MORE INFO
Online ordering via website or APP in English
Email: info@2yourdoor.ch
Customer service hotline: 0041 (0)22 575 4343
EAT.CH– some cool restaurant partners but very troubled service record
Their service is available all over Switzerland and covers more then 2000 restaurants, but of course not even a quarter of those are in Geneva. Pay online or even cash upon delivery. There is a minimum order depending on the restaurant that varies between CHF18 and CHF60, but it is well indicated on the site.
Participating restaurants include Hungry, Sushitime, Jet Pizza Genève, Street Beirut, Pizza Leggera or Tartares & Co.
Type of food: Chinese, Italian, Greek, Asian, Indian, Japanese, Mexican, American, Oriental, Vegan, Vegetaria
OUR VERDICT
Very limited food choice for postcode we tested in Troinex and Veyrier, so we didn’t test them, but the Facebook reviews show a very troubled service record indeed.
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Online ordering via website or APP in English
EATZER.CH
Food from around 100 restaurants in Geneva and promising to deliver in under 45 minutes.
Type of food: Asian, healthy, guilty pleasures, oriental, fast foods, spicy options, desserts and sweet treats, big flavour, small prices, pizzas, etc.
OUR VERDICT
Another service that doesn’t cover Veyrier or Vessy – seriously, we’re only 15 minutes max from the centre of town!
Service reviews on Google rate them as 4.5 stars out of 5 for 37 reviews, which is not bad compared to some of the competitors.
The healthy food section includes McDonalds – what? Oh and guess what? It’s also listed under Guilty Pleasures and just about everywhere else. We are not stupid, people!
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TAKE AWAY – not big choice in Geneva
What used to be lieferservice.ch is now called takeaway.com and is partnering with more than 1000 restaurants all over Switzerland, but alas not very many in Geneva yet!
You have the option to pay cash upon delivery or online with credit card, Paypal or Bitcoin. Takeaway offer a loyalty program and exclusive discounts. Takeaway do not specify a delivery time, but they claim to be FAST.
Type of food: Pizza, Asian, Indian, Thai, Chinese, Pasta, Burgers, Kebabs, Vegetarian
OUR VERDICT
Only a few restaurants listed so far and only 11 for postcode Vessy and Veyrier. Not much info available.
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Online ordering via website or APP in English
ÜBER EATS – The new kid on the block in Geneva
The real-time tracking system is the same as for Über Rides and allows you to follow the order from preparation to delivery to your door step. You can track the delivery man car, bike or scooter and see the driver’s name and photo. The website indicates the price level of the restaurant as well as the time it takes for delivery to your mentioned address.
Über Eats also offer gift cards that can be used for meals, as well as for Uber Rides and their delivery partners are able to deliver within 15 minutes from pickup to drop off.
Type of food: Healthy, Italian, Nigerian, Sushi, Indian, Chinese, Burgers, Tacos etc.
OUR VERDICT
Just under a 100 restaurants – good photographs and good selection, although leaning more towards fast foods and not featuring any of our favourites. Not great service record on social media so far. Our options for Veyrier include 3 restaurants: Lebanese, sushi and tacos. No thanks.
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Online ordering via website or APP in English
FOOD ATTITUDE – the healthy and gourmet option
This is a special address for delicious, fresh and healthy gourmet deliveries to cater for your busy lifestyle in Geneva. Marica and Samantha are the two ladies behind FOOD ATTITUDE, who cook balanced and healthy dishes that can be ordered online. Delivery will be to your home and the office for lunch and dinner from Monday to Friday. Every week a new menu is offered with a different main dish every day. Additionally you may want to try their soups, natural beverages and desserts free of refined sugar.
Place the order online and have your meal arrive during one of two time slots. The dishes arrive refrigerated and all you need to do is reheat your meal when you are ready. On the website you can subscribe to the newsletter which informs you of the weekly menus.
FOOD ATTITUDE also caters for private events and offer weekly or monthly subscriptions.
OUR VERDICT
Now we’re talking. A real healthy treat. A luxury, personalised service with rave reviews. This is the way to go.
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0041- (0)22 860 13 65
I am surprised there is no mention of the outrageous delivery fees which go up the more food you order. I tried putting in an order for the restaurant 2 blocks down from my house and the charge was 10 francs excluding service fee and tip. Absolutely ridiculous.