Middle-class hotel for business and private travel The Mercure Hotel Plaza Biel is located in the heart of the watch metropolis of Biel, very close to the pedestrian zone and the railway station. The 4-star hotel in Biel offers 100 comfortable rooms and suites as well as a free fitness and sauna area. Mediterranean dishes and wines are served in the Barrique restaurant. The hotel has two bars and meeting rooms for conferences and events for up to 100 people. All rooms and meeting rooms are air-conditioned and have free WLAN. The nature reserve of St. Peter's Island, the three-lake boat trip or a shopping stroll in the pedestrian zone of Biel. These are just a few of the many excursions you can discover from us! The hotel staff will be happy to give you tips. Our accommodations Choose from the available room categories: Standard single rooms, double rooms with one double bed or two single beds or our superior rooms with kitchenette. Let us know if you prefer a smoking or non-smoking room, or if you prefer our room for handicapped people. All our rooms are equipped with a free minibar, coffee and tea maker, fans. On request you can also use an iron with a board. The Restaurant Barrique offers you an innovative cuisine with regional and international gourmet dishes. You can also choose from different wines from all over the world. The barrique is full of surprises!

Restaurant Monday - Friday 7:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. / 5:00 - 10:00 p.m. Kitchen: Monday - Friday 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. / 6:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m. While concert events in the theater hall, kitchen is open in the evening starting from 5:30 p.m.

Wir traten in ein sehr sauberes, freundliches Restaurant ein und wurden sehr zuvorkomme, aufmerksam bedient. Das Essen war sehr gut zubereitet und schmeckte uns super. Die Portionen waren eher gross genug, sodass wir gar kein Dessert mehr mochten. Alles in allem: super, vorzüglich. Freundliche Grüsse Beat und Marianne Thalmann

Juste dommage que à chaque fois que la porte de l’hôtel s’ouvre il y ait un courant froid 🥶

Nous avons très bien mangé. Par contre, nous avons été installés à une table en face de la porte d'entrée. Ce qui nous a permis de bénéficier de tous les courants d'air froids à chaque ouverture de porte. C' était extrêmement désagréable....d' autant plus qu' une table (placée ds un endroit plus intime et chaleureux) est restée vide toute la soirée.

Sehr aufmerksame und zuvorkommende Bedienung. Vermutlich der schönste Spot in Romanshorrn.

Für unser alljährliches Familienfest haben uns den Murtenhof ausgesucht. Das war eine sehr gute Wahl. Beratung im Vorfeld war toll, die Abwicklung der Reservation einfach und der Anlass selbst dann toll - schöne Terrasse für den Apéro und das Essen dann im Saal mit tollem Blick auf den Murtensee. Die Weine vom Mont Vully waren sehr köstlich. Feines Essen und sehr persönliche Bedienung haben zu einem vollen Genuss beigetragen

Merci pour ce excellent repas

Sur la terrasse avec belle vue et un calme bienfaisant, nous avons été très bien servis par la sympathique Marion. Le choix des mets offre une variété pour tous les goûts: très belle présentation de tous les plats, cuisine inventive avec des accents alpestre et grâce aux petits herbes qui donnent de nouveaux plaisirs au palet. Bravo au chef et à toute l’équipe! Nous reviendrons certainement dans ce lieu agréable et calme.

Das Essen ist hervorragend kaum Bestellt steht es schon auf dem Tisch und ist sehr fein.

Das Mittagessen in Bad Schauenburg war für uns eine kulinarische Entdeckung in der Region. Schönes Lokal, guter Service und ein leckeres Menü. Wir werden bei schönem Wetter, auf der Terrasse den Anlass wiederholen.

For our hostess Simona and her team it will be a pleasure to tantalize the tastebuds of their guests with seasonal and regional recipes and dishes that are always prepared with local products. In keeping with the Ticino tradition, the kitchen recommends the ever popular “Ossobuco” from Piera with polenta from “Mulino di Bruzella”, as well as the braised beef (“Brasato”) and the the flat or tall “Formaggini” that is produced in the valley. Cheeses can be enjoyed including the Ticino cheese “Formagella”, that is made nearby on the slopes of Monte Generoso. Finally, you can taste the local sausages with the excellent bread baked in the valley, as well as the wines of Mendrisiotto. The tradition of typical dishes will also be carried on by Simona according to family recipes including the famous osso buco with polenta “della Piera.” This and more await you in a typical and cozy environment. We have carefully selected for you different wines at reasonable prices from the different wineries in the Mendrisiotto. Of course, the Merlot dominates, but there are also various assemblages and wines that are stored in barriques to emphasize the bouquet of the wines. Our wine list also contains some representative wines from neighboring Italy, from Barbaresco to Sangiovese and finally Prosecco and Spumanti, made according to the classic method (Champagnoise), as well as, of course, with the common aperitifs, our grappas and nocinos (walnut liqueurs). The name of the Osteria refers to the family name Manciana, the maiden name of the grandmother “nonna Agnese”, who has run the Osteria since the 1950s when she took over the work that her mother Giuditta had started in the 1930s. From 1970 until today, her daughter-in-law Piera has taken care of the entire management of the restaurant; she has always welcomed all visitors warmly and has cooked for thousands of guests with passion over the years. The “osso buco con polenta della Piera”, a dish whose recipe remains a secret and has now been continued by four generations, remains famous. Simona, Piera’s daughter-in-law, will take over the management of the Manciana after the renovation, maintaining the direction and traditions that have shaped this historic osteria of the Valle di Muggio and Monte Generoso region over the years. From 2021 the Osteria will be able to offer its guests a large room for 40 people and two terraces for around 15 people, including a new one with a view of the valley. The Osteria is a typical mountain inn, which has adapted to the progress and changes of the visitors over the years but has retained its character as a daily meeting point for the residents of the Muggio Valley and those passing through. In the Osteria, farmers, bricklayers, hikers and seasonal workers who returned from central Switzerland after the Second World War, border guards who lived in the village and soldiers in times of war always enjoyed meeting each other. In the 1960s smugglers who carried their goods in “bricolle” (jute sacks full of cigarettes) to Italy, also took a stop there. Even today the adventures of the “spalloni” (smugglers) are told who tried to escape the border guards in order to bring their “bricolla” to safety. For almost 100 years the MANCIANA was a reference point for the village and the visitors, who once traveled for commercial and now for tourist reasons, between Switzerland and Italy, Como Lake (Italy) and Lugano Lake (Switzerland). Hospitality and tolerance were and will remain a hallmark of the Manciana.