Black diary: Glôzu’s son acts as interim manager at the Hôtel-de-Ville restaurant – News Geneva: Geneva news

He arrives more than an hour late. “I’m sorry, I have a lot of things to settle,” apologizes Vincent Glauser when entering the restaurant of the Hôtel-de-Ville. Since Friday, the day of the death of his father, Jean-Yves Glauser, the legendary boss of this establishment in the Old Town, he has received nearly 300 phone calls and fifty messages. “How touching. There are even the people he got angry with who write to me. “

Following the death of the boss, he is the one who takes over from the establishment. Vincent Glauser, 28, knows the restaurant inside out. “I was almost born here,” he quips. This Sunday, he wears a brooch on his costume on which it is written: “The son of Glôzu”. “When I was a kid, all the servers had a name badge. My father then offered me this one. It’s a memory.”

During his father’s illness, Vincent Glauser expressed his interest in the City to take over the restaurant, today on behalf of his parents. If he gets management, he wants to keep the spirit of the bistro. “My father was a figure of the Old City, it will not be easy to pass after him,” he notes however.

In honor of Father Glôzu, a ceremony will be organized on January 7 at 3 p.m. at Saint-Pierre Cathedral. “It marked the Old City, it seems normal to celebrate it there,” notes his son. A drink will then be offered at the Hôtel-de-Ville restaurant, which was officially closed that day. Guests can then admire Father Glôzu’s collection of freshly dusted kepis. “They are cleaned once a year on January 2 by the latest arrival from the brigade,” said Antonio Vendeiro, the hotel’s head waiter.

Created: 29.12.2019, 4:47 p.m.

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