Kornhauskeller Restaurant & Bar

The Kornhauskeller is identified by the heavy, arched stone portico that opens onto the street. In the early eighteenth century, the city of Bern built this massive structure to serve as a granary, storing grain for the entire region to prevent famine. The interior vaulting creates a cavernous cellar space that has functioned as a wine storage area, a municipal ballroom, and today, a restaurant. The ornate painted ceiling remains exactly as the guild leaders commissioned it in the seventeen hundreds.