Les Terrasses du Lac restaurant in Annecy: season, opening hours, set menus, and why the listings disagree
A restaurant on the Semnoz road, closed Mondays and Tuesdays, open from February to November and bookable online only. Four platforms give four sets of opening hours, the official website publishes no prices, and the name gets mixed up with every lakeside terrace in town.
"Les Terrasses du Lac" is a search that covers two things: one specific restaurant in Annecy, and the general wish for a table with a view over the water. This page deals with the first and points you to the second.
Solid sources on the restaurant are few: its website, its booking page, and directories that do not say the same thing. We set out the differences instead of smoothing them over.
What is "Les Terrasses du Lac" in Annecy?
A restaurant, not an event or a public viewpoint. It stands at 7 route du Semnoz, 74000 Annecy, on the road that climbs towards the plateau, with a dining room and a panoramic terrace facing the lake.
The official website describes cooking based on fresh, seasonal produce, with no published menu and no prices. None of the sources consulted records when it opened, its history or any change of owner: the only published information is what it offers today.
The name is easily confused with the ordinary phrase, which simply means "the lake terraces". For waterside terraces shore by shore, with opening hours and price ranges, read the restaurants on the shores of Lake Annecy.
When is the restaurant open?
The season runs from February to November according to the official website, and from 1 February to 25 November according to a tourism directory that gives exact dates. It is closed in December and January.
The opening days are consistent across every source: open Wednesday to Sunday, closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. It is the only piece of timing information on which the platforms agree.
Why do the opening hours differ from one platform to another?
Because each one records something different: service hours, last orders or the full span of the day. Here are the four versions we found, with their dates.
| Source | Hours shown | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Tripadvisor and RestaurantGuru | 12pm to 2pm and 7pm to 9pm | 2025 and September 2026 |
| Apple Maps | 12pm to 1.15pm and 7pm to 8.15pm | April 2026 |
| Aggregator directory | Noon to 9pm | 2026 |
| Official website | Days only, no hours published | 2026 |
The likely reading: the short Apple Maps slots are last orders, and the aggregator's continuous span adds lunch and dinner together. The official website does not settle the matter.
For dinner, aim to arrive before 8pm. For lunch, before 1pm. And check the day before: no independent source, neither the tourist office nor the town hall, confirms these hours.
How much does a meal cost?
The official website publishes no prices. The only figures come from a tourism directory: adult set menus at €45 to €72, children's menu at €15. These are indicative values noted in early 2026, not the restaurant's own price list.
That range places it between the beach brasserie and the fine-dining tables of the east shore, whose price levels are set out in the restaurants on the shores of the lake. A view from on high has its price, but it costs less than a terrace on stilts at Talloires.
The Semnoz road climbs straight out of town: a base in the centre or near the station puts you ten minutes' drive away, and you come back without hunting for a space by the lake. The search for places to stay in Annecy can be filtered by district before you compare prices.
See places to stay in central Annecy →Partner link: booking through this link supports the site at no extra cost to you.How do you book, and when is it full?
Booking is online only, according to the restaurant's booking page, which also says it answers the phone Wednesday to Sunday. There is no walk-in desk, no third-party platform announced and no prepayment described.
No footfall data is published. The only signal is a local article noting that the restaurant was full on a Mother's Day Sunday. The conclusion is what common sense already says: weekends and public holidays need booking early, for lunch as well as dinner.
What the promotional pages leave out: booking is in practice essential for the best slots, the hours change with the platform you look at, and the prices are not published at source.
What other terraces are there by the lake?
If you were searching for lakeside terraces in general, the lake offers three formats: terraces on the water along the east shore, beach bars on the west shore, and panoramic restaurants higher up such as Le Balcon du Lac at the Col de la Forclaz, another address with a misleading name.
How the three formats are spread around the lake, their seasons and their hours are covered in the restaurants with a lake view. For everything else, from parking to the water temperature, Lake Annecy in figures links to each page.
Before or after your meal, the lake is also worth seeing from the water: guided cruises, paddleboarding and boat trips leave from the quays in Annecy. The Annecy activities page brings the options together with their duration and price.
See activities on Lake Annecy →Partner link: booking through this link supports the site at no extra cost to you.Sources
restaurant-les-terrasses-du-lac.com (home page 2025 and booking page 2026), Cirkwi (listing of 19 February 2026), Tripadvisor (listings checked on 12 September 2026 and 23 February 2025), RestaurantGuru (16 August 2025), Apple Maps (1 April 2026), icioncuisine.com (2026).
annecyadvisor.fr (terraces, note of a fully booked day), guide-annecy.fr, reserverunbar.fr, Lake Annecy tourist office (events listings). Research consolidated on 12 September 2026. No institutional source confirms the opening hours: they are self-declared and can change without the platforms keeping up.
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Camille Perrissin
Camille grew up in Sévrier, on the west shore, and swims in the lake from April to November. She has been taking the water temperature herself since 2019 and knows where the bottom suddenly drops away. She writes about the lake without ever turning it into a postcard.
