This place hooked me with the relaxed Mastatqe and old European chanson they DJ on old LPs. But…read morethey keep me with the amazing food. On Mondays they have guest chefs and a broader menu but always have almost a dozen classic Sicilian standards through the week. The kitchen status open quite late. We regularly come for dinner after 10, ebben 11 at night. The polpette al sugo is an explosion of flavour. Tender meatballs with flavours of raisin and thyme, four big ones will fill you, covered in a fresh tomato sauce. By far my favorite dish. Pasta and gnocchi also amazing. Salvia butter sauce or tomato. Ideal for couples or very small groups given the intimate setting.

Vineria Centrale is that cozy and authentic Italian place you want to visit in Zurich. On one of…read morethe hippest streets - Neugasse - Vineria Centrale is a small and intimate place to enjoy a glass of wine, some antipasti and a conversation with friends. Watch out for their wine and dine events published on their Facebook page. They also do all you can eat antipasti on select Mondays.

Maybe not the cosiest place in town, but I like the house wines for three Franks. Changing every…read morenow and then. Additionally they offer a high quality selection of bottled wine for reasonable prices. Maybe the best ones in Zurich. Vivid bar scenery and changing exhibitions of erotic art, more or less inspiring, depending on your preferences or curiosity.

Fantastic place. Cheapest wine in town in a crazy funky setting (not for prudes, there's lots of…read moreporn images on the walls). Interesting mix of clientele, low income locals, arty and hippy types and youngsters. Nice outside area for the summer.

This is the wine bar that Zurich has been looking for. An extensive selection of wines from around…read morethe world with theme nights like big bottles and Monday's Mouton. It's impossible not to like the small and stylish bar. Service is friendly and informed. The cheese, charcuterie and antipasti are fantastic. The bar also has a huge selection of gins including their own - nginious. If you're looking for a quiet place to get together with friends for a glass or two of wine, this is the place. The neighbourhood is also inviting and sitting outside on the sidewalk is comfortable with few cars coming through. Lastly, it's worth subscribing to their newsletter to stay up-to-date on their wine and dine events that take place every other month or so.

Even if on their website they say "we are not a Spanish restaurant", they are :-) according to my…read morefriend who comes from Ibiza. This restaurant is specialized with wine and tapas. I have to say that the wine selection is great. We had a wine from Portugal (which is funny for a Spanish place). We actually had more then one bottle, and we loved it ( please note that the alcohol didn't influenced us). One of my friend who's a wine "connaisseur" simply fell in love with it. The variety of Tapas is also very good. We basically ordered, with our eyes, which was more then what we could really eat! It was really good. The meat balls were a bit dry according to my Spanish friend but the rest was excellent. The good thing is, if you just want a small snack you can. If you want full dinner you also can! Basically "yes we can" ;-) Please if you like Tapas, give this restaurant a try. The service is good and the food as well. Price wise it's not cheap but I think it's worth it.

Loved this place! Raif, one of the hosts, was about as friendly and accommodating as one could hope…read morefor. Speaks perfect English, among other languages, and made some great recommendations. I highly recommend this place as the food in Zurich is hit or miss. I'd definitely go back. Thanks Raif!

This place is AMAZING! The guys took great care of us. The pork shoulder and the sea bass were so…read moregood and the wine suggestions were top notch also. If you are in Zurich and want authentic (and amazing) Greek then DEFINITELY go to this place!

The service was excellent, which wasn't very hard in an almost empty restaurant. It was empty…read morebecause we went at 2 pm and most people had already enjoyed the Zurich sun on one of the many squares in the area. All the food we ordered was well prepped and tasty. It didn't look like much, but we left well-fed and happy. One thing to complain about was the Gyros tacos. The meet didn't taste good, and I missed some crunchiness I usually experience with Gyros. The sauce made somewhat up to it, but not really.

Great location, nice wine selection and superb service. Great for pre dinner wine and appetizer…read more Would like to see some library and vintage wine offerings in the list.

My favorite must to do here is: Champagne nights on Tues and…read moreSaturday. It's a great deal if you are celebrating something special and you are planning to drink more than 3 glasses. For a lightweight like me, I can easily drink 3 glasses without a problem. I even heard one person telling me that he once went there for lunch and stayed all the way to dinner time, just to maximize the all you can drink champagne on a Saturday... But of course the whole time they kept ordering food time to time as good patrons would. I guess their Sunday wasn't too productive. I'm not sure I'd recommend you to do that but it's a funny story worth telling. I'm not one to rant about prices because I will pay for food that is worth it. But I find myself paying almost 40 bucks for a hamburger that doesn't really even sum up the best I've ever had. The 40 dollar hamburger tries to be snobby Zurich gourmet and ends up tasting exactly that way as it falls short of unique mouth exploding flavor. I normally go for the beef tar tar here, it's nice and you don't feel like someone stole a bit of your wallet after eating it. Come here if you want a nice atmosphere with friends for dinner... A plus is if you loooove champagne (I like the real deal, let's pass the prosecco). And make sure you think twice before blowing 40 bucks on a burger here!

I remember many a good time 20 years ago at the Opfelchammer which, back then, was really just a…read morebar. Now, it serves very expensive food. It's a shame but on a recent visit, the wonderful atmospheric "old wooden room" looked much the same.

The Oepfelchammer, is a tavern that has been around since the 1300s, students from the University…read moresometimes take a challenge to pull up onto a ceiling rafter, slide onto another rafter, and drink wine while their head is hanging upside down. We saw a group attempt this and one of girls actually did it! She earned a free bottle of wine and the privilege of carving her name onto a table. A memorable experience! Excellent service as well !

If you're staying in Old Town Zürich you'll immediately see a massive divide in price from very…read morereasonable to astronomically high for luxury - this is a moment to lean towards the thrifty side. EVERYTHING in Zurich is very nice including the discount hotels. For three nights we spent, in total, 403 CHF or ($446 USD) and the LOCATION was steps away from every restaurant, shop, and historical church you wanted to peruse. In addition to the great location, the hotel was charming, the room was clean, the windows had a view, and the heat worked - maybe a little too we'll, but more about that later. So, unless you have business in Zurich and your sole purpose is to tour around this charming; luxurious city, stay at the Hotel Hirschen where next door you can eat buckets of cheese to your hearts content, and then some, and in 3 days leave with your monogrammed Victorinox and appreciation for millennia old monasteries feeling confident anything more would be repetitive. And, hopefully, you kept an extra 100+ CHF per night in your pocket by staying at this hotel where the sole reason I'm not giving a 5th star is the shower will scald you if a neighboring room decides to flush their toilet but a quick morning exercise in reflexes for over 100 CHF is a game I'll play every chance I am offered!

We had a last minute change of plans and my original hotel in Zurich had no availability for the…read morenew dates. Hirschen was the only one that seemed acceptable by location and I hoped that it would turn out to be better than the 7 rating on the booking sites. Well the moment you arrive you understand why it's not rated any higher. Another reviewer described it as shabby and that's the most fitting one word description of this place. From the entrance (hard to find) to the lobby (non existent) to the room (tiny and dark) I kept thinking, is this place really charging me close to $300 a night? Unfortunately yes. No elevator from street entrance to reception so if you have heavy luggage be forewarned. Dark and shabby reception area. Room is clean enough but tiny without much lighting and shortage of wall outlets. No aircon just a table fan - which is good and must be used or you'll suffocate in the July heat. Except then you won't be able to plug in the fridge because there aren't enough outlets. Bed is very soft - you'll get a backache if staying more than one night. Shower is the size of one person with a wraparound curtain which will keep being stuck on you while showering. The only thing going for the hotel of course is the perfect location. It's right in old town, and about a half km from the train station, surrounded by restaurants and walkable to everywhere. The cold breakfast (optional whether included in the room) in the only bright room next to the reception is adequate with cereal, cheese, cold cuts, some veggies/fruits and pastries. You can also boil your own eggs to preference in the boiler which is a plus. Hotels in Zurich are supposed to provide a free transportation card for guests for the trams etc but this place doesn't.

I just visited this establishment this evening and couldn't be more repulsed at the horrible…read moreservice provided here. As soon as my husband and I walked in looking for a drink after our dinner, I felt a 'locals only' vibe and we got looks from everyone in the bar. It almost felt as if they had already closed, based on the look I was getting from the two women behind the bar, so I asked - they said they were closing at 10 pm (45 minutes later) and are no longer serving dinner. I told them we didn't need food, but asked if they had a menu for the wine, to which they looked at me like I was crazy and then pointed to 4 bottles sitting on the top of the bar with no prices, no description of the bottles they were poring. They also pointed to the wall as well. That was it - nothing else, no explanation further. Why on earth would I spend my money here? We immediately left and went to Drinx Bar up the street, with which we were very pleased. Such an awful representation of the kind service we've received elsewhere in Zurich.

5 stars?? Jaaaa, genau! Not only does this place have great…read morefood, but it also has the "cool factor." What is that, exactly? They are only open for lunch. They only serve water or wine. They only have two options each day. When you dine in, they ask you if you want a second serving...! When you dive out, the price goes down...! The price is much lower than the competition, (competition being every other random Italian restaurant in Zurich) and the interior decor has a rugged-chic feel. I love it. The first time I ate there I had a pasta with mushroom, beef, random veggies, and cream. It was nothing I would normally go for and it was uh-mazing. The second time I got my food to-go which cost me 3 francs less and it was a penne with bolognese. :) Bolognese is hands down my favorite food ever and this wasn't any different, absolutely amazing. I don't even know what else to say. Love it. Go try it. Boopideebapee! (that is the extent of my italian)

On a Sunday night, this bar is open later than most everywhere else in Zurich, aside from its…read moreLangstrasse neighboring bars that cater to a very different audience (think establishments with clothing optional "performances" and all night hookah bars). It's a bit divey, for sure, but not in a dirty or dingy way. Despite Yelp saying that credit cards are accepted here, the bartenders told me otherwise (with a 30CHF bill), so keep that in mind if you're visiting from out of town and have limited Swiss currency. I'm guessing those instances are probably limited, given the relative neighborhood-y feel to the bar, but with its proximity to the train station you never know. There's not much specifically identifiable as great about Olé Olé, but it's the culmination of everything about the place that just makes it generally lovable. The bartender gals are cheerful and charming, and even manage to have their own labeled beer as a result of their infamy. The patrons are chill, but friendly, so much so that we wound up back at the flat of one of the people we met at the bar to have some after-hours drinks and inevitably chat about global politics (some things never change). Pricing seemed decent, with 4 beers (I think) being about 25-30CHF. They only had the local beer Amboss on draft in two varieties, which was pretty mediocre, but still better than the Bud or Miller products you would find in a similar dive back in the U.S. This definitely feels like more of a shots or whiskey sipping kind of bar. The bathroom deserves its own special mention here, with some of the most odd / interesting decor I've ever seen, featuring a full size skeleton hovering over the toilet with a bouquet of flowers for a groin, and a machine that dispenses something called "Travel Pussy".

This is a very nice location to go out on a weekend and to have drinks…read more The bar is the beginning of the vibrant part of Langstrasse. The interior is nice and well decorated. The crowd is kinda down-to-earth till the a-wanna-be-a-hipster. The music is nice (alternative - Rock). Prices of drinks are OK. Normal prices for Kreis 4. Just pay attention, it is a narrow bar. It gets difficult when you are with more then 4 people. And you can not be outside because it is right at the street. For sure a place to go once in a while.