The Maison Manesse opened with a big bash with over 400 people attending. Being shy and living in the shadows of anonymity your favourite restaurant tester waited a few days before trying out this new establishment. What a change from read more…
There are two Rheinfelder places in Zurich, the slightly posher one being the Rheinfelder Bierhaus. Posh in the sense of a lower amount of openly alcoholic patrons, so that the level of down-to-earthness is even acceptable for local politicians to read more…
If this were the Langstrasse, hipsters would find the Kwang Chow just splendid. The faded decor and the cheesy pictures of B-List celebrities dining here are all testament to what Chinese dining was all about in the eighties. Unfortunately 30 read more…
My beloved readers are already familiar with the fact and I’ll just reiterate for the occasional stray from Google Search, that I am a very modest person. In this article I wrote about the Restaurant zum Goldenen Fass and complained read more…
Thai Food Station is located in the newest part of time, where all the streets are named after people, Neu-Oerlikon. To satisfy a quick dinner we grab Som Tam Thai and a Massaman Curry at the place. Both dishes score read more…
One restaurant closes and the next one opens a concept introduced as the “Circle of Life” by the great philosopher and faux hair piece connaisseur Elton John. Delmonico is moving and only weeks later the new Hopfenau opens. Interesting how read more…
Hotel restaurants are always a bit of a tossup, but the strong feature is that they tend to be open on a Sunday night. The differente was an option and it presented itself as a relatively lively place for a read more…
Somewhat difficult to reach is the Hotel Restaurant Equinox near Hardbrücke. Also the Hotel is called Renaissance, which is the same name as another hotel just outside Zurich Oerlikon. I walk into the half-empty dining area and wait at the read more…
Costa Brava is a place for holidays and a restaurant in Zurich located on Limmatstrasse. Somewhat ugly on the outside, the insides are not much prettier but people are willing to pay for authentic old school and this is what read more…
Wandering around leads to discoveries. I headed to Kreis 6 and ended up in a Pizzeria called Corallo. At first the place looks a tad rund-down, a more friendly way to put it is patina. I have a small flashback read more…