Moutarlier les artisans du goût - Montreux

A Vaud chocolatier's counter in central Montreux

Moutarlier arrives in Montreux as a shop rather than a tea room. The house began in chocolate and confiserie under the name Lucien Moutarlier and widened into a bakery and patisserie group across the Canton of Vaud, and the Montreux address is one of its points de vente: a counter to choose from and carry away, without the salon de thé and terrace that some of the other branches run. The name translates as artisans of taste, and the house presents itself exactly that way: a Swiss confiserie, pâtisserie and bakery working across the Canton of Vaud under one set of hands.

Baked in Noville, sold in Montreux

Production sits at Noville, the group's main workshop, which also holds a tea room of its own. That arrangement is what keeps the Montreux window consistent with the rest of the network: the same chocolates, the same patisserie, the same breads and viennoiseries, made in one place and distributed across the Vaud shops. The categories the house works in are broad for a single counter, running from daily bread and breakfast pastry through cakes and chocolates to savoury bakery items.

Moutarlier is a Relais Desserts member boutique for 2026, which puts it among the international association of specialist dessert makers and points at the sweet half of the business: chocolate, confectionery and patisserie rather than a restaurant kitchen.

Read it as a chocolatier first

The most useful way to approach the Montreux shop is through the chocolate and confiserie work the name was built on, then outward through patisserie into the everyday bakery range. It functions as a town-centre stop: bread and viennoiserie in the morning, a cake or a box of chocolates later in the day, savoury bakery pieces for a quick lunch, every one of them carrying the same Vaud house and the same Noville workshop behind it. The customers are the ones a town-centre counter always has: residents doing the daily shop, commuters, and people passing through Montreux on the way somewhere else.

If the seated version is what you want, that belongs to the other branches. Here the format is counter and takeaway, and the trade-off is a shorter visit, with the full Moutarlier range gathered into a single window rather than spread across a dining room.