Why do people go to a Spa ? Have expensive warm oil drizzled on your skin, while you lie naked on a bed and to top it off some foreign muscular man touches your body in a harsh way. What read more…
Independet research is suggesting that you as my reader are not alone. I am working hard to grow my user base and have decided on learning romontsch sursilvan. If you need to know what this is check out the Wikipedia read more…
Finally – one of my favourite chefs, Vale Fritz, is back, up to something new and it’s pretty exciting. I’ve always complained about the lack of popup restaurants in Zurich and here he is running one. It’s in a secret read more…
A good friend recommended me the L’Anima in London and being susceptible to good advice I booked a table for one. I think it’s fair to call out the place as sleek, modern and sophisticated. The crowd it attracted also read more…
You arrive at foreign city during the day. After an afternoon and an early night full of meetings you finally arrive at your hotel and decide to head out to town for a nice dinner. You mumble to the taxi read more…
Without a concert the O2 Millenium Dome is a rather deserted place. For some reason I end up for dinner at a Brazilian All-You-Can-Eat Steakhouse called Rodizo Rico. The excitement quickly diminishes when I walk over to the buffet, there’s read more…
The legendary Schloessli closed, was refurnished and opened under new management including a Facebook page. The place still has the nice, covered garden terrace on the outside and has added decent looking tables on the inside. The restaurant has a read more…
The more restaurants in Zurich I cover, the farther I have to travel to unearth real gems. Up near Horgen, in the hamlet called Horgenberg a restaurant with a very traditional feel can be found, the Schwyzerhüsli. It was asparagus read more…
Meister Gao is a somewhat ill-located restaurant directly off the Bucheggplatz. Weird is that some signs still remind of a previous dining establishment called Buche. Now there’s not much in terms of exciting chinese dining in Zurich, most of places read more…
I cruise over to Illnau and kind of start to like the rather pittoresque and quaint area. Lots of farmers, old houses and (by swiss standards) vast open space of woods and pastures. The Roessli Illnau could be missed if read more…