Or, tuck into the Australian-Swiss chef Mark Thommen's interpretation of spaetzle: Swiss noodles topped with a poached egg.

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Here the bounty of the region is served up in typical dishes such as spaetzle (hand-formed noodles) and maultaschen (a meat-stuffed pocket of dough similar to ravioli).

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Prime Meats does a lot of things very, very well, but one of the things it truly excels at is spaetzle, so I was intrigued when I spied on the menu a hash that combined those tiny wheat-flour dumplings with gently smoked haddock and sweet beets.

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