Mm, now I'd buy that for a Dollar!

Sounds great.

On the theme of Rant -vs- Review, there are few reviews worth reading, yet most Rants are entertaining. Any restaurant review should be 98% Attack, and 2% Thank You to the marvellous valet / cloakroom girl / interior designer. Anything else is just too bland

Anyone who's worked professionally in service knows when things are not right and unfortunately - in Zürich in particular - things are rarely very good. It's a miserable rule of service that the customer will ignore the good and highlight the bad, but that's what makes the job such good sport - and rewarding when done right.

I vote for more educated rubbishing of poor service and lousy meals. Not: 'Do you know who I am?', more: 'Who are they taking us for?'

The culture here is - perversely - not one of criticism when it comes to restaurants. "Alles gute xsi?"* is rarely replied with "Ja-in, leider nicht perfect..."** rather "Superxsi..."

He who pays the bill decides if it was nice or not, for reasons of decorum

My in-the-field tip is to complain in situ to anyone who'll listen, but NEVER at the table. Take the complaint to their territory, where they'll be offguard to patrons confronting them. It's also polite to raise stink away from the table Invariably you'll get a better and more prompt result by having a quiet word with whoever on their turf.

Name and Shame!


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*'Was everything alright?'
**'Yes and No, unfortunately not perfect..."

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GRÜNTAL CREPERIEhas changed its name to Bei Babette

Bei Babette
Bertastr. 16
8003 Zürich

T: 043 366 85 02

As we don't know Zurich that well, having only eaten in Movie which was lovely but huge platefuls (it was lunchtime and still had shopping to do). We are heading to Zurich tomorrow night and as we will arrive at the main station can anyone recommend a good indian or something similar that is not too much off the beaten track, otherwise we'll spend hours wondering which street to turn down next. Thanks for your help.

Off the beaten path is often the best idea for restaurants in Zürich, I find.

For Spanish:
Restaurant Marenostrum
Aemtlerstrasse 160
8003 Zürich Kreis 3 (Sihlfeld)

For Lebanese:
Palm de Beirute
Bertastr. 76, 8003 Zürich

For Tibetan:
Shangrila
Ziegeleiweg 2 (cross-street Birmensdorfer)
8055 Zürich

Thanks Jessy-Lein thats a great variety to look in to are they easy enough to find?

Shangrila is almost on Birmensdorfer and is right by Thalwiel tram stop on the 9 and 14.
Marenostrum is on Aemtlerwiese and is across the street from the Sihlfeld friedhoff and right on the 33 bus line between the stops "Bertastrasse" and "Krematorium"
Palme de Beirut is hard to find. From Goldbrunnenplatz, it's Goldbrunnenstrasse to the end.

Go to the beginning of the thread.

Restaurant Beyond (http://www.restaurant-beyond.ch)
Zollstr. 20
8005 Zürich
New number: 043 366 83 45 (Chinese & Thai)

Just behind the main station - walk to the last platform. Go to the back. You will be on Zollstrasse

For indian go to King's Curry (see beginning of this thread). Take tram 14 to Bahnhof Wiedikon.

Also Vulkan near the main station is good for Indian.

In the Niederdorf you have the choice of Khan's and Blue Monkey Cocostin. (Bang Song Thai too . a bit harder to find).

I cant recommend Suan Long. In fact i would stay clear of this place.
They have little regards for their customers and i have found them not to be very obliging at all. Try another establishment if you want a dining experience

Hey there,
do you know http://menuonline1981.appspot.com ? After a few years in ZH I love Lilly's asian food near limmat platz and also hiltl vegi food near rennweg but how to find more good ones?

How to make my wife and friends and myself happy when we go out for dinning?

I started searching for dishes we like on http://menuonline1981.appspot.com. I just enter a dish and a post code for example: sushi 8001. That get s me details about the way they do the dish on menu, price, address and some reviews.
En guete!
Brooster

I'm not sure how popular or well known 'Yelp is in CH.. but it's very widely used to search/review restaurants/stores/medical/any service in US and some countries overseas.

I saw Yelp Zurich..

You might get some info based on people's review.

http://www.yelp.com/ and type zurich

Rendez-vous at enge is very nice, especially for lunch

Cafe munz, sidestreet of bahnhofstrasse is also goog, great curry and good service

For Japanese I recommend Ooki on baeckerstrasse. Really good food, a bit cramped but a very real atmosphere. It's a small place with affordable prices. Nice selection of Asian beers.

CPestana

Wanted to add a Mexican restaurant to the list.

El Luchador located at Konradstrasse 69, 8005 Zürich
http://www.elluchador.ch/

So my wife is half Swiss half Mexican, and she grew up in Mexico. We lived in California together, and she is very particular about her Mexican food. This all said, her claim is that El Luchador is better than any place we've been to in the San Francisco Bay Area. I must agree, with the one trip to Mexico I have made, this place is about as Authentic as you can get. One more bit before going on to the food review, the owner is a childhood friend of my wife, and owns another successful bar in the area as well. He brought in a chef from Mexico to prepare the menu.

So, about the food. What you will find here is a short list of very authentic Mexican flavored food. The dishes are served "tapas" style, so plan on ordering 3 plates or so for 2 people. The dishes cost about 11-15 CHF each. The website has a listing of their plates, and I can only simply recommend the Taco de Res and the Quesadilla de Tinga. Everything is great quality and flavor, but these two dishes are the best. Every week they have a special plate, and so far we have only tried one, the Chile Relleno. It was fantastic. We had 3 plates of this...

So on to other information, if you plan on going during obvious busy hours, call ahead and get a reservation, and it is a small place and fills up quickly. It is also located about a block from the Tram, so it's very accessible.

Enjoy!

I second El Luchador. Also has fantastic (fresh) Margaritas. I love the Taco al Pastor.

Hi everyone

A friend of mine (Swiss friend :-)) recommended drincover to me.Unfortunately the page is only available in German....but thanks to a lot ofpictures easy to understand ;-)

It's a collection of the best restaurants (Swiss cuisine, Italian,Vegetarian,…), bars and places to go for brunch in Zurich. So far I haven'tbeen disappointed and according to the website it’s all based onrecommendations and not on restaurants paying to get listed…very nice idea…

Hope you like it, too.

http://zurich.drincover.ch/

Cheers Sarah

For Brunch I recommend: ZUM GUTEN GLÜCK

http://www.zumgutenglueck.ch/speisen.php
ZUM GUTEN GLÜCK
Stationsstrasse 7
8003 Zürich
043 540 72 99
contact@zumgutenglueck.ch

They serve sweet and savory pancakes and waffles. You have to get their pancake with chorizo - it's amazing! They also have great coffee.

Hey guys, could somebody recommend me a restaurant not too close from the center with:

- Traditional swiss food: foundue / Rösti / geschnelzelte Fleisch. I don't remember the name.
- Nice swiss atmosphäre (wood inside, etc)
- Not too expensive: CHF 20-30 max with water/beer!

Thanks in advance.

No suggestions?

Hello everyone,

Went for lunch to Brasserie Lipp. Very nice food, especially the sea food platter.

http://brasserie-lipp.ch/e/restauran.../seite411.html