Hi

We are moving soon to Zurich and wondered if there are m/any vegetarian restaurants?

HappyCow.com says there are 11 or so, but not finding much on this forum to help.

Hi Quest,

There are lots of questions before you move to a new place: perhaps you may wish to search using the fine facility we already have on this Forum which will undoubtably provide the info you're seeking?

Good luck with your move, and yes, you're mad to leave Miami Beach for Zurich ha ha...

you've obviously missed the Restaurant thread and also www.swisswiki.ch has a restaurant wiki entry...

Hiltl - well known Vegetarian restaurant. You can walk there from the Niederdorf, catching fine fresh air from the lake after a good workout in the gym

You sound frighteningly healthy.

thanks all

I started out pretending to be healthy as that
was where all the hot chicks in Notting Hill seemed
too hang out at 'Fresh n Wild' and Yoga


ended up marrying one of them...

quest you know
you don't
have
to
press enter all
the
time?

this is true
but big fan of haiku
so now you know

writing haikus on
vegetables is not
easy anytime

Here are the ones that my family visits regularly...

Restaurant Hiltl http://www.hiltl.ch

Tibits in Zurich, Bern & Winterthur http://www.tibits.ch

Bona Dea in the Zurich Main Station
http://www.bona-dea.ch/sites/index.php?id_b=53

This one will open this summer in Sihlcity...
http://www.sihlcity.ch/de/Restaurants/VEG.html

Enjoy!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Veggie-in-CH

Another one is the Hiltls take away on the ground floor of Jelmoli's. I was there today for lunch and it was soooo good!

Also on that floor is take away from Tiffins which is asian food and they have veggie options.

Definitely Hiltl (oldest veg restaurant on the Continent, 1898)!
It's off Bahnhofstrasse (tram stop Rennweg/Augustinergasse, lines 6,7,11,13), Sihlstrasse 28.

They even organize cooking courses.

Vegetarianism is pretty widespread in Switzerland, seems every restaurant I've been in has at least one "Vegi" dish on the menu.

Also Titbits (part of Hiltl) is also great in Seefeld. Great after a day by the lake, running or not.

more in the german part...

Don't know that many veggie restaurants in Zurich but I remember a particularly good veggie 'bistro' opposite Quaglino's, street name evades me but its just near the opera house & Stadelhofen station.
If you're ever in Basel, there's a veggie restaurant called Oliv that I heard is pretty fab.

marmoset is right. nearly every restaurant has vegi dishes on the menu.
try lily´s, its an thai restaurant on langstrasse doing yummay meals for low price. and they are quick. but its not set up for an full evening/night out with mates, fam n stuff. youll see.

Be careful, however. All which seems vegetarian may not be.

People often don't understand that meat or fish broth is still considered animal to vegetarians. They don't consider gelatin. Or that the item may have been fried in/cooked on the same place as a meat product.

I've had people offer me chicken dishes when I've asked if they have vegetarian options. Or bring me a salad full of shrimp, as they told me salad was the only vegetarian item on the menu.

Be careful, ask lots and lots of questions and you'll be OK overall.

My younger son went for lunch at a classmates house a few days ago and when I picked him up the mother apologized to me as she knew he was vegetarian and made fish sticks for lunch thinking that was ok. He told her he doesn't eat fish and had rice with ketchup on it for lunch