Not every culinary adventure leads me to a top notch restaurant, sporting the latest molecular gastronomical invention. Visiting a relative I ended up at the dining room of the Alterszentrum Hottingen, a nursery home. I had a lot of reservations read more…
Japanese places tend to pop up in classy and trendy neighborhoods to cater to people with full wallets. Samurai doesn’t quite follow this pattern. It’s located on Weststrasse, just next to a whorehouse. Depending on the company you’re entertaining this read more…
La Contrada is a strange little place near Langstrasse. I went in for a dinnner on Sunday night and It was pretty well packed, so I’m assuming it’s popular with the locals. Seldomly have I had such a difficult time read more…
Update: I don’t like to brag – but it took the Tagesanzeiger 10 days longer than yours truly to come up with this. Who’s the number one in Zurich? Why is therealpickygourmet.com the best dining blog ? Because we are read more…
I attended a company function at the Imagine in Sihlcity. It is one of the places which is owned by Candrian Catering. I’m not a big fan of Candrian Catering, simply for the fact that they’re running every restaurant in read more…
Leo’s Bistro is located just next to the Stauffacher. It obviously isn’t a chic and sleek restaurant, where highly paid gastronomic consultants worked on a new and exciting concept. We get lucky and get the nice lady as our waiter. read more…
I headed to dinner at the Hermanseck. A nice place near Bahnhof Wiedikon with a large gay community, so I start thinking that maybe I shouldn’t dine alone here with my manly good looks. Anyway I got excellent service, was read more…
It says on the outside that Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine was served at the Abyssinia Restaurant, so in my book this calls for a visit. The place is almost three quarters full on a monday night. The owner welcomes us read more…
It’s getting worse, again I forgot to take a picture of the main course. Certo is the successor of the Cooperativo, if you read closely that all they had to do is get rid of the oopaiv to turn one read more…
I felt really hungry on Sunday and decided to go for italian. Pizzeria Mario seemed like a nice place. The only downside is that it is located in a dodgy neighborhood. Walking down Brauerstrasse after dark, means dodging aggressive prostitutes read more…