Is there a Polish restaurant in/near Zurich? A Czech one would do as well. This is not a joke - I am quite desperate!

Hmm, I guess you're out of luck. I don't even recollect ever having seen one.

Google yielded this place, deep in the Oberland... might be good for a sausage or two.

There used to be two Russian and one Hungarian one, but they have disappeared years ago. I particularily loved that Russian/Uzbek one in Küsnacht.

Google however reveals something interesting :

Restaurant Eichwies Zum Krakauer

Etzelstrasse 26
8634 Hombrechtikon
Tel: 055 / 264 10 00
info@krakauer.ch

Im Herzen des Zürich Oberland befindet sich unser Spezialitätenrestaurant mit alt-polnischer und alt-schweizerischer
Küche.

Lassen Sie sich mit unserer Erlebnis-Gastronomie zurück versetzen in alte Zeiten.

Es wird Sie eine interessante Auswahl an Gerichten erwarten, wo Sie garantiert auch das Entsprechende für Ihren Gaumen finden!

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Öffnungszeiten:Di-Do 1130 - 1400h/1700 - 2200h, Fr 1130 - 1400h/1700 - 2400h, Sa 1700 - 2400h, So 1130 - 2200h Weitere Infos: Restaurant - polnische Küche

Erstes polnisches Restaurant der Schweiz!

Im Zürich Oberland in der Nähe des Polenmuseum in Rapperswil befindet sich unser
Spezialitätenrestaurant in rustikalem Ambiente mit polnischer Küche.
Lassen Sie sich mit unserer Erlebnis- Gastronomie zurück versetzen in alte
Zeiten.
Qualität und Frische wird bei uns gross geschrieben, es erwartet Sie eine
interessante Auswahl an Gerichten, wo Sie garantiert auch das Entsprechende für
Ihren Gaumen finden! In unserem Gewölbeweinkeller mit Bar haben Sie zudem die
Auswahl an einem grossen Sortiment an alkoholischen und nicht alkoholischen
Getränken.

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I found a Czech one in Basel, Czech owners, chef and food.
They do serve Staropramen so it will probably be pretty good, I know it is far.
I know I spoke to a car mechanic in Geneva once who's daughter opened a Czech pub somewhere in Swiss-deutch part, but cannot remember where. Czech cuisine is sometimes referred to as Bohemian, just to make your google search easier (Bohemian = Czech, a geographical term).

Are you in need of dumplings and goulash or pierogis? Surely there's someone on the forum adept at Slavic cooking who can hook you up?

If you are really in withdrawal there's a kind of methadone-clinic for this at the Migros Restaurant. Plenty of salty mushy meaty potato-y stuff there to tide you over till you can get the real goods.

No, Bohemia is NOT = Czech, as Czechia consists of two parts, Bohemia/Böhmen and Moravia/Mähren

otherwise, many thanks for the info

But be aware of the differences between German and Hungarian. "Gulasch" in German is the thing with the excellent meat, but it in Hungarian is PöRKöLT, while the Hungarian Gulasch overhere is a "Gulasch-Suppe" .

Watch out Wollis- it's coming.......

Oh, yeah, I know..We tend to mix those two together, to pish off the Moravians. They do have very similar cooking, though. And way better wine. They are big on wine. We are big on fernet and pivo, haha..I am salivating for some real Czech klobaska

thanks for the info on czech and other spots.

here's what i'm looking for: pierogi (potato/cheese or fruit), wild mushroom soup, barszcz czerwony, baked duck in apple, sauerkraut, egg & potato salad.....

This was a very good polish restaurant. But:

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Letzte SHAB-Meldung der Zum Krakauer GmbH

SHAB: 228 / 2008 vom 24.11.2008
Zum Krakauer GmbH in Liquidation, in Hombrechtikon, CH-020.4.033.823-0, Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (SHAB Nr. 154 vom 12.08.2008, S. 23, Publ. 4608750). Nachdem kein begründeter Einspruch gegen die Löschung erhoben wurde, wird die Gesellschaft im Sinne von Art. 159 Abs. 5 lit. a HRegV von Amtes wegen gelöscht.

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It went bust mid-2008 . So no polish restaurant in CH anymore. (No polish shop either).

I will try to find some more restaurants that no longer exist for you .

Are you just hungry for food from home or do you want to go to a restaurant specifically? Would recipes and sources for ingredients help?

Generally speaking, East Europeans seems to be not successful in gastronomy business in west Europe. Can it be marketing issue, not well known, no too diverse or just matter of taste or ...?!
Comments are welcome.

We had a nice thread on all this long ago, when a few of us were desperate for perogies. BTW, I am still willing to marry a nice pretty perogie maker and take care of you for the rest of your life.

Perogies in Switzerland

There was a Polish restaurant mentioned in another thread, but can't find it. Given how expensive normal restaurants are here, if it were an expensive place, then you're better off flying to Poland for cheaper.

Some years ago me and my friend decided to go to Italy for holidays. After a few weeks of lovely food we were driving back through Poland and stopped for lunch in some town on the way. They had kindly translated the menu as well. The first dish read, and I remember it vividly: "pieces of dough, in fat".


almost turned the car back.

so you see, with descriptions like that, I would guess marketing might be a bit difficult..

Awesome. I know where we're going this summer!

Oooops, so sorry to see this ! So that now the 4th East European restaurant in the Canton of Zürich went out of operation !

Is it because
- East European cuisine is a bit out of fashion in Switzerland ?
- Former East European refugees now are fully integrated ?

I checked things a bit further, with places like Vorarlberg and southern Baden Württemberg. Looks as if the nearest Polish restaurants are in München and Wien .... not really closeby !

I heard some Germans crack jokes about Switzerland being behind rest of EU 10-20 years, but it would be strange when it comes to eastern kitchens and Polish restaurants being closed prematurely here. It seems like enterpreises selling kielbasy, pierogi, nalesniki and so on and so forth did not satisfy local tastes and enjoy popularity! On the other hand, it seems like neighbouring countries introduced on their menus international cuisines whereas here foreign traditions either got sucked in by the system or had no choice to entertain their tastes being destined to cervelata, raclette and rosti forever. Vacuum sealed food and Burger King, McDonald junk food overpriced and adding touch of American culture became more favourite. Swiss adopts US way of reasoning, the US copies CH, WTF, but true european cuisines are overshadowed by stigma of the past regimes. Give me fecken vodka and pickles on the table, right ****ing now! I say you can ban minarets and burkas but bring back Polish food

BTW: Took me ages to find baked beans in tomatoe sauce. Finally, Spar nearby came with rescue and graciously put on shelves bulky can offered at generous price CHF2.20 Now, I need to open this tasty looking thingy with Victorinox pocket knife for CHF50.

- There is no common EU standard. I mean, there is some difference between Ireland and Greece, just to pick one example

- Hungarian restaurants were successful here for many decades, so that the negative development of recent years rather is a matter of fashion

- "neighbouring countries" ? In case you mean Germany and Austria, it is zero. If you mean France, you forget that most of Swiss cuisine has been modelled along the lines of French cuisine for centuries. The one neighbour which however has conquered Switzerland clearly is Italy

- USA ? The USA did have some influence, but you exaggerate this aspect as this influence has its limits. Starbucks for example is a USA company, but based on the experiences of a US-American of German origin in Italy.

- to say that the successful Italian, Turkish, Arab, Indian, Thai, Chinese and Mexican restaurants serve Cervelat and Röschti simply is WRONG

- Vodka is available everywhere