At the chicken shack

"Eat chicken here"

We took the girls out to lunch on Sunday. A friend had recommended we try a place called Chez ma Cousine, good value, easy atmosphere, and ideally, for a family with small children, it opens at 11.30am.  The little chain has three restaurants in Geneva, we went to the one in Grand Saconnex. It is a very simple set up. There is nothing fancy in the decor and nothing fancy in the welcome. We arrived at about 11.45 and already there were parties sitting down to eat.
With a three year old whinging about being hungry and thirsty, it's a good thing that the "waiter" quickly arrived at our table with the menu, and almost as soon after our food arrived.
The menu couldn't be described as extensive, but considering the fact that the menu has chickens clucking all over it, it is surprising to see that there is also fish, lamb and pork on the menu. Top of the menu is half a roast chicken with chips. We ordered two of those and a child's portion of a quarter chicken to share between the big one and the small one. Obviously they can't cook the chicken on short order. With the sun out I ordered a beer, clearly though the profit is made on the drinks, and duly a group of Chinese students at the table behind us were drinking nothing but three carafes of water between them.
The food was great, the atmosphere simple and relaxed. It was an easy place to take the kids to for lunch, and we weren't the only people who thought that. Every table in the restaurant was peopled by parties of more than one generation, whether the younger generation was three or thirty-three. Once the restaurant is part  of the family; it seems it stays in the family. The restaurant is now in our family.