Impression Café Lausanne

If you're visiting Lausanne for the first time or live near the train station, you'll pass in front of a coffee shop in a Haussmann-style building with a large sign on a black background with "L’Impression Café et Restaurant" written in white. It's a good place to know, especially if you like gourmet coffee and bistronomy.

It's all about life's simple pleasures like sitting for a "real coffee break" in the café-restaurant's window, facing Avenue Louis-Ruchonnet, enjoying a delicious coffee and a Grandma Odile’s roasted chicken.

The very definition of a neighbourhood bistro

Nestled in a former printing factory, you’ll discover a neighbourhood bistro with an urban look outside and cosy places to sit inside surrounded by a rather Zen and minimalist decor.

It's a place where you’d love to drink a delicious coffee whatever the time, day or mood of the moment. You can enjoy their brunch, a more sophisticated dish, a homemade pastry or a revisited cheesecake with your coffee.

It’s somewhere you can share a few hours, alone or with someone, sipping on a delicious drink that picks you up for the day. The neighbourhood bistro is a place where people of different generations meet, writers get inspired by the world around them and people pass long hours conversing and debating. It’s a pause in the day that does you good. The L’Impression Café brings all of this together into one.

Up at 8 am

The L’Impression's baristas can prepare you any coffee drink you want like a cappuccino, coffee milkshake, or latte, for here or takeaway. You can also create your own gourmet breakfast to go by adding an organic juice, croissant or bowl of granola to your order. You can opt for organic and 100% natural tea if you don't like coffee. Personally, our heart leans completely towards the Omarccino. It is a double espresso with cane sugar that has been caramelised with a blowtorch and topped with pistachio slices. Omar, who runs the L’Impression Café, invented it. It's a delicious and strong antidepressant when you're feeling down as the days get shorter. There's an excellent reason that it was voted the best drink of all time by the students from the Lemania School. :)

The after-work rendezvous

At the L’Impression, sometimes as late as 10pm, you can savour not only a glass of wine, craft beer, or soft drink, but also organic juices and home-made cocktails to enjoy the long summer evenings on the terrace or within the warm atmosphere of the interior in winter.

An intergenerational coffee shop The café-restaurant appeals to people of all ages. From the interior décor, to the dishes and drinks on the menu, the L’Impression Café has options that are somewhere between hip and traditional. The people of Lausanne truly enjoy this spot, they are happy to find a place where you feel good at any age.

An intergenerational coffee shop The café-restaurant appeals to people of all ages. From the interior décor, to the dishes and drinks on the menu, the L’Impression Café has options that are somewhere between hip and traditional. The people of Lausanne truly enjoy this spot, they are happy to find a place where you feel good at any age.

Restaurant, brunch and stylish coffee

Enjoy a warm madeleine, a shortbread cookie, or even better! An unbaked cheesecake with poppy seeds and a red fruit coulis. Can't you taste it now?

Oh, and the L’Impression is also a working restaurant for lunch. You will inevitably be tempted (instead of eating on the go as usual), by the dish of the day or their vegetarian option (because the L’Impression has something for everyone). Note that all dishes are made from fresh, local and labelled products offered at reasonable prices (the dish of the day is around 20 CHF).

On the kitchen side, Omar gives young cooks the chance to let their imagination and talents be expressed through world cuisine. So, don't be surprised if you find a roasted chicken as the dish of the day alongside avocado toast on the menu. It’s this blend that pleased us at the L’Impression Café.

It's common for the chef to use coffee to add a little something to a dish. Coffee has already been combined with a caramel coulis and used as a glaze on a chicken. Their chicken makes our mouths water. We wanted to try everything, yet we’d only come to drink some good coffee.

An eco-friendly coffee roasted in Switzerland

Coffees made with eco-friendly and sustainable beans at an affordable price, it's not found in all the coffee shops in the area. Omar has worked with the Swiss roaster Chronic. since the opening of his café-restaurant in 2018.

"My coffee, I chose it before I bought my business"

With his roaster, Omar shares the same values. Their goals are common, to continue to maintain long-term relationships between partners, to offer an ecological and sustainable product to their customers, and to promote an alternative way of consuming coffee.

Coffee drinks that are popular There’s the traditional espresso which is an aromatic treasure to drink. But you can easily be tempted by more gourmet recipes... Or by the cappuccino made the "L’Impression" way, with "you wanted it, you got it" foam that makes you feel like you're on a cloud. The recipe is the following, fill a cup with creamy milk foam and then pour a double espresso over the top. (If you want to make this recipe at home, we've reserved a brief clip, available soon on our CoffeeAvenue Youtube channel > Best Coffee shops in Lausanne for you.

Visit at the Impression Café Lausanne

Through our camera, we filmed our visit to the café-restaurant and our meeting with the team. Omar, the manager, prepared the coffee of the day and gave us a mini interview to learn more about the L’Impression Café in Lausanne and its journey.

L’impression Café

Avenue Louis Ruchonnet

15 1003 Lausanne Suisse