Month: June 2010
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Volkshaus Zürich
Volkshaus (People’s House) is a kind of conference space and stage that is available for rental by the general public. Located on Stauffacherstrasse and facing Helvetiaplatz, it opened about 100 years ago and has a bookshop, sauna and restaurant. We went there for dinner on our last evening in Zurich. Food was solidly good. The…
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YumiHana in Zürich
While we were wandering around the center of Zürich near the main train station, Sue saw the sign of a takeout/grocery store. YumiHana is located on Schützengasse 7 just off Bahnhofstrasse. What a surprising discovery ! We have not had a korean meal for several months and were really elated to find this place. …
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LaSalle in Schiffbau, Zürich
LaSalle Restaurant is located inside Schiffbau and enclosed in a glass cube. In the center of the restaurant is a low hanging whitish murano glass chandelier the style of which matches the period of the industrial shell but its pristine quality matches the glass sides. On one side of the restaurant is a bar, the…
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Schiffbau and Im Viaduct in Zürich West
We spent a couple of afternoons exploring the industrial Zürich West and the neighboring Kreis 5 area. We visited Freitag’s flagship store in a stack of shipping containers (the subject of a future blogpost) and checked out the area’s shops and restaurants. A remarkable string of about 50 shops and studios were created under the…
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Sprüngli versus Teuscher
On the subject of chocolate, I blogged about Neuchâtel’s local hero Phillipe Suchard a few months ago. The Suchard brand is now owned by Kraft and does not have their own outlets. We checked out two top chocolatiers while visiting Zürich. Teuscher has more than 12 shops in the US and Canada, and several in…
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PULS 5
The center of Zürich is quaint and elegant with designer shops, restaurants, churches, and museums – a classical European city. But Zürich also has a funky, post-industrial side, generally known as Zürich West. It is the Zürich equivalent of NYC’s meatpacking district, except that the warehouses here are much bigger. We spent a couple of afternoons…