Lunch in Zurich

[InitialDave]

I'll be travelling through Zurich in May, and will have six hours or so between flights into and out of ZRH in the middle of a weekday. Looks like it's only 10-15 minutes to get into town proper.

Where's good for lunch?

[W99KSY]

What do you fancy, and as it’s Zürich, what’s your budget

A few ideas near the station…

Fondue https://www.fribourger-fondue-stuebli.ch/

Sausage and Rösti in interesting setting https://www.zeughauskeller.ch/en/home

Swiss https://www.drei-stuben.ch/en

Links to Grasshopper Zurich FC https://www.restaurantheuguemper.ch/

Edited by W99KSY on Tuesday 21st January 20:03

[shirt]

I’d keep it simple. Old town beer hall. Schnitzel and sides, few pints, potter around and back on the train.

[InitialDave]

Thanks for that, Zeughauskeller looks interesting.

Budget I'm figuring 50CHF-ish, I can't really go too heavy on the drinking as I have stuff to do later, so food and perhaps a beer or two.

Just figured it was a more interesting layover than sitting in an airport lounge for a couple of hours!

[Pete102]

Zeughauskeller is a good shout, we had our works xmas lunch there a couple of years ago.

[eyebeebe]

InitialDave said:

Thanks for that, Zeughauskeller looks interesting.

Budget I'm figuring 50CHF-ish, I can't really go too heavy on the drinking as I have stuff to do later, so food and perhaps a beer or two.

Just figured it was a more interesting layover than sitting in an airport lounge for a couple of hours!

Zeughauskeller is a complete tourist trap, but for good reason and plenty of locals visit too. It’s normally top of the list when we have first time visitors. You’ll be in budget for a main and a couple of beers.

Unfortunately you’ve missed game season. Zürich style veal (item 47 on the menu) is the traditional dish of Zurich and is similar to a stroganoff. The cordon bleu are decent and I’d recommend a Rösti as a side.

It’s about a 10 minute walk down the main shopping street from the main station or the tram stop Paradeplatz is outside. If it’s a nice day, after lunch, continue down the same street for a couple of minutes and you’ll reach the lake.

ETA as you are on your own, you may end up sharing a table.

[InitialDave]

To wrap things up, I did indeed go to Zeughauskeller, and fuelled myself up with sausage and rösti washed down with a beer or three.

[DeejRC]

Did nobody mention Bauschanzli ? Sorry OP I would have sent you there if I read the topic previously, perfect place for lunch in May.
Impressed if you got a decent lunch for 50Chuffs these days.
It used to be about 35Chfs for decent portion of chips, large nuggets and a pint in Paddys over a decade ago!!

[eyebeebe]

DeejRC said:

Did nobody mention Bauschanzli ? Sorry OP I would have sent you there if I read the topic previously, perfect place for lunch in May.
Impressed if you got a decent lunch for 50Chuffs these days.
It used to be about 35Chfs for decent portion of chips, large nuggets and a pint in Paddys over a decade ago!!

Errr May is doing what it always does in Zurich… it was 27 degrees on Friday, storms over the weekend, non-stop rain since we landed on Sunday night until lunch today. Assuming the OP was in town this week, al fresco dining was not on the menu.

Nuggets, chips and a pint at Paddys will still cost you about CHF 35. Inflation is for other countries

[InitialDave]

DeejRC said:

Did nobody mention Bauschanzli ? Sorry OP I would have sent you there if I read the topic previously, perfect place for lunch in May.
Impressed if you got a decent lunch for 50Chuffs these days.
It used to be about 35Chfs for decent portion of chips, large nuggets and a pint in Paddys over a decade ago!!

I think it was 44 francs for the food and three 400ml beers.

[Pete102]

Glad you enjoyed, 44Fr isnt too horrible. To be honest, around 25Fr is about the going rate for a meal these days without drinks.

[MarkJS]

Those Zurich prices don’t seem to be (too) bad value – but maybe that’s just sausage & rosti.

We’ve just spent some time in Geneva and of course I knew it wouldn’t be cheap but f*ck me it was eye-watering. I like to think I’m reasonably well travelled but it was by far the most expensive place I’ve been and that’s for absolutely everything that we used/consumed. I’m usually a believer of the ‘you get what you pay for’ notion but not in this case as I can’t say that anything was of any superior quality – quite the opposite in some cases. (the trains did run to the second though )

Places like Annecy & Chamonix that we visited just down the road felt dirt cheap by comparison.

We had a great time though.

[DeejRC]

eyebeebe said:

DeejRC said:

Did nobody mention Bauschanzli ? Sorry OP I would have sent you there if I read the topic previously, perfect place for lunch in May.
Impressed if you got a decent lunch for 50Chuffs these days.
It used to be about 35Chfs for decent portion of chips, large nuggets and a pint in Paddys over a decade ago!!

Errr May is doing what it always does in Zurich… it was 27 degrees on Friday, storms over the weekend, non-stop rain since we landed on Sunday night until lunch today. Assuming the OP was in town this week, al fresco dining was not on the menu.

Nuggets, chips and a pint at Paddys will still cost you about CHF 35. Inflation is for other countries

Damn, I need to give my mate Not Quite So Big Neal in Zurich a yell and get back out there! Helsinki is now making Zurich look cheap hehe!