Dave's Zürich Guidebook
Food Scene
Chinese, but with japanese/italian/spanish influences. Really good. Can be busy
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Wesley's Kitchen
48 JosefstrasseChinese, but with japanese/italian/spanish influences. Really good. Can be busy
Not sure how to categorise this one :-)
Restaurant/Bar/Music Venue in a former factory building. A bit off the tourist track, and quite typical Zürich. More a summer option as most of the seats are outside, beside the lake. Interesting graffiti.
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I-Rote Fabrik
395 SeestrasseNot sure how to categorise this one :-)
Restaurant/Bar/Music Venue in a former factory building. A bit off the tourist track, and quite typical Zürich. More a summer option as most of the seats are outside, beside the lake. Interesting graffiti.
Café Zähringer
11 Zähringerpl.Popular cafe with the locals, especially students.
Zum Guten Glück
7 StationsstrasseVery popular with locals for breakfast/brunch
One of the most famous Cafés in the city – very fancy inside. According to my girlfriend has the best hot chocolate in the city. Just be careful you don't choke on the chocolate when you get the bill :-)
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Schober Cafe
4 NapfgasseOne of the most famous Cafés in the city – very fancy inside. According to my girlfriend has the best hot chocolate in the city. Just be careful you don't choke on the chocolate when you get the bill :-)
Cafe beside the river. More a summer place really - popular place to hang out, have a few drinks and go for a quick swim. You can also watch the amateur welders at the metal workshop next door :-)
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Jugendkulturhaus Dynamo
21 WasserwerkstrasseCafe beside the river. More a summer place really - popular place to hang out, have a few drinks and go for a quick swim. You can also watch the amateur welders at the metal workshop next door :-)
Maison Blunt
5 GasometerstrasseLebanese place - Good for lunch/brunch.
Traditional Swiss Food, but without the Fondue and Raclette. Great food. Very popular with locals.
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Volkshaus Bar
60 StauffacherstrasseTraditional Swiss Food, but without the Fondue and Raclette. Great food. Very popular with locals.
Fribourger Fonduestübli
38 RotwandstrasseGenerally agreed to have the best fondue in town.
Want to buy your sausage by the meter? Zeughauskeller is a restaurant in the old armory, just off Bahnhofstrasse. A beer and hearty food place which is definitely aimed at tourists, but all the tourists i've taken there have liked it a lot. I do too.
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Zeughauskeller
28A BahnhofstrasseWant to buy your sausage by the meter? Zeughauskeller is a restaurant in the old armory, just off Bahnhofstrasse. A beer and hearty food place which is definitely aimed at tourists, but all the tourists i've taken there have liked it a lot. I do too.
My favorite restaurant in Zürich. This Japanese place is excellent, you can find it just off Langstrasse (the main nightlife district in the city)
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Kokoro
25 NeufrankengasseMy favorite restaurant in Zürich. This Japanese place is excellent, you can find it just off Langstrasse (the main nightlife district in the city)
Gelateria di Berna
196 WeststrasseVery good ice cream shop
The best ice cream. Not so many flavours to choose from, but i've yet to have bad one. Infrequent opening times - best to check on google maps.
Eisvogel Gelato
15 OttostrasseThe best ice cream. Not so many flavours to choose from, but i've yet to have bad one. Infrequent opening times - best to check on google maps.
Drinks & Nightlife
If you like your bars dark, and the walls and ceiling covered in random posters and junk, this is the place for you.
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El Lokal
11 GessneralleeIf you like your bars dark, and the walls and ceiling covered in random posters and junk, this is the place for you.
They do a good (if expensive) cocktail here, but the main reason to visit is that they have probably the best view of the city. Entrance is via a lift, which you access from inside the Brasserie Lipp.
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Jules Verne Panoramabar
9 UraniastrasseThey do a good (if expensive) cocktail here, but the main reason to visit is that they have probably the best view of the city. Entrance is via a lift, which you access from inside the Brasserie Lipp.
Oldest bar in the city with plenty of old wood-panely charm. Very unique inside (upstairs is the place to go). If you're up for it, you can try their climbing/drinking challenge :-)
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Oepfelchammer
12 RindermarktOldest bar in the city with plenty of old wood-panely charm. Very unique inside (upstairs is the place to go). If you're up for it, you can try their climbing/drinking challenge :-)
Helsinki Club
35 GeroldstrasseTiny club with lots of charm. Very Zürich.
Getting Around
Letzigrund station
Tram stop 50m from my place on Line 2
Zurich Main Station
BahnhofplatzMain train station
Essentials
Buchmann Café und Beck Hubertus
101 LetzigrabenGood bread, although a bit overpriced.
My normal place for grocery shopping. Small, but close by and open later than most.
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Coop Supermarkt Zürich Albisriederplatz
333 BadenerstrasseMy normal place for grocery shopping. Small, but close by and open later than most.
Pharmacy nearby.
Sunday Closed
Monday 7:30am–7pm
Tuesday 7:30am–7pm
Wednesday 7:30am–7pm
Thursday 7:30am–7pm
Friday 7:30am–7pm
Saturday 8am–5pm
Pilgerbrunnen Rotpunkt Apotheke
10 Albisrieder - PlatzPharmacy nearby.
Sunday Closed
Monday 7:30am–7pm
Tuesday 7:30am–7pm
Wednesday 7:30am–7pm
Thursday 7:30am–7pm
Friday 7:30am–7pm
Saturday 8am–5pm
Bellevue Apotheke
14 Theaterstrasse24hr Pharmacy. You can get directly there with Tram 2.
Triemlispital station
Hospital
Shopping
Chocolate!! Probably the most famous chocolate maker in Switzerland, and one of the best. They have a number of shops in the city, the biggest being the one on Bahnhofstrasse, which also has a café upstairs
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Confiserie Sprungli
21 BahnhofstrasseChocolate!! Probably the most famous chocolate maker in Switzerland, and one of the best. They have a number of shops in the city, the biggest being the one on Bahnhofstrasse, which also has a café upstairs
I think I've never had the chocolates from here, but I can recommend it for macarons and eclairs
Vollenweider Chocolatier Confiseur
1 TheaterstrasseI think I've never had the chocolates from here, but I can recommend it for macarons and eclairs
Chocolate!! Very good chocolate shop, which also has branches around the city. Their specialty is large tablets of chocolate with various toppings
Läderach - Zürich Bahnhofstrasse
106 BahnhofstrasseChocolate!! Very good chocolate shop, which also has branches around the city. Their specialty is large tablets of chocolate with various toppings
Parks & Nature
Hike up from Triemli (or take the S10 train) to the hotel Uto Kulm. Once up you have great views of the city and lake. From there you can also hike quite far along the ridge south.
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Uetliberg
Hike up from Triemli (or take the S10 train) to the hotel Uto Kulm. Once up you have great views of the city and lake. From there you can also hike quite far along the ridge south.
Swimming place for the summer. Once it gets hot, hordes of people descend to sunbathe and swim beside the river.
Hint: Walk upstream to Dynamo Cafe....jump in the water....float back down to the wooden platform....get out....lie in the sun....repeat.
Don't go past the wooden platform, because death.
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Primitivo
Kloster Fahr-WegSwimming place for the summer. Once it gets hot, hordes of people descend to sunbathe and swim beside the river.
Hint: Walk upstream to Dynamo Cafe....jump in the water....float back down to the wooden platform....get out....lie in the sun....repeat.
Don't go past the wooden platform, because death.