Movie Restaurant on the side of ABC does a fashionably crowded breakfast
Italian:
Il Golosone is
The Daddy of Italian in Zurich - there is place on the 4 tram line between Limmatplatz and Escher-Wyzplatz opposite a Spanish place that used to be good [the best] but was frankly
not last time I went (1 year last Valentine's Day).... and there's a little cute place called Piccola-Trattoria-Gaetano [Bertastrasse 16] run by Gaetano who's frankly so insanely friendly its untrue.
Sale & Pepe at Im Tiergarten is famously good too; no pizza mind you. And another couple of haunts -
Grottino 77 and
Mezzo.