It is from the mid of 1990s the restaurant trade is on an pward swing in Zurich as it has seen the development and establishment of international as well as Swiss restaurant in the city. The traditional cuisine, however is no more in the fashion yet can be easily found around. You can imagine of meat, mushrooms, potatoes, butter, cream and other delicious dishes in the city.

•    Kronenhalle: The interior of the restaurant decorated with the collection of 20th-century art that includes works by Giacometti, Picasso, Miro, Chagall and Matisse. Its menu attracts many regular diners that enjoy the excellently prepared local and international dishes on the menu. Its service is first-rated and ambience is quite formal.

•    Restaurant Hiltl: The Bavarian Ambrosius Hiltl procured the Vegetarierheim und Abstinez-Café (Vegetarians’ Home and Teetotallers’ Café) in 1907 run by Hiltl’s great-grandson Rolf, it is especially popular for its lunch menu that includes 50 salads and Thai buffet of around 30 different dishes in the evening.

•    Zeughauskeller: Made on the ruins of the 15th-century armoury, the Zeughauskeller came into operation in 1927, when the building transferred into a beer hall. There large stone pillars keeps up the ornamental wooden-beamed ceiling, and portraits of noblemen and weaponry as shown over there.

•    Petermann’s Kunststuben: It is situated around 6km south of the city centre on Lake Zurich’s eastern shore. It counts among the nation’s finest restaurants as being courtesy to the Hamburg-born Michelin-starred Horst Petermann, who is one of the best chefs of Switzerland. This intimate restaurant boasts of an exceptional wine cellar and its daily ever changing menu entirely serves French cuisine and menu.

•    Sein Zurich: It is quite informal to gourmet dining that has made it to a favorite spot on the Zurich culinary scene; its well crafted menu incorporates mixture of classic recipes, fusion offerings and creative vegetarian dishes. Its sample menu includes quail risotto with sundried tomatoes and marinated duck liver, and thinly sliced raw sturgeon on mashed potatoes with caviar and sour cream sauce.

•    Veltliner Keller: The Veltliner Keller has been a restaurant since 1551 (and a wine cellar for 200 years before that, storing the Italian-Swiss Valtellina wines carried over the Alps to Zurich). The ancient carved wood interior is typical of the Graubünden region, with panelling made from arve, a mountain pine unique to Switzerland. The seasonal menu includes both Swiss and Italian classic dishes, including the celebrated Zurich-style kalbsgeschnetzeltes (sliced veal and mushrooms in a white wine sauce).

•    Blindekuh: This is a concept dinning restaurant run blind and visually impaired staff. Diners here eat in pitch-blackness to as to get experience of being blind. It has the senses of taste, smell and touch accentuated, the experience is enlightening. The blind waiters and waitresses guide customers to their seats and interior of the restaurant.

•   Crazy Cow: It is cozy restaurant adjacent to Hotel Leoneck. It caters to a young and lively crowd and is decorated with cows, Heidi, edelweiss, giant Toblerones and a variety of other witty Swiss stereotypes. It is entirely a swiss restaurant that includes variety of hearty rösti dishes and its speciality is Alpen macaroni.

Bar and Clubs in Zurich

The most popular spot to look out for nightlife in Zurich is the Old Town, on the left bank of the River Limmat that has many bars and cafes situated on the side streets like as Niederdorfstrasse and Oberdorfstrasse. Below are briefed some popular bars for nightlife in the city.

•    Labor Bar: This is owned by a renowned television celebrity in the city.  Labor Bar has established its reputation being a dance and lounge bar having with too many adverse judgments towards them by the fashion police. Its weekly ‘Butterfly Party’ is famous for popular gay night in Zurich.

•    Club Indochine: Located at the western center of city it is a one of the most glamours spot in the city of Zurich.  According to the suggested name it is primarily is abounded by south East Asian crowd.  Most of the action here occurs on the top floor of the building.

•    Kaufleuten: It has the reputation of even hosting celebrities like Prince, Robbie Williams and Madonna as are the past visitors here. It is one of the best known bars in Zurich. Here are situated four different bars across two separate floors, ranging from the theatrical, chandelier-laden main bar to the more comfy lounge area, arranged with large cushions and wooden furniture.

•    PurPur: It is a Moroccan themed joint where Pur Pur is being combined with    Asian-Mediterranean cooking and a hip clientele along with sumptuously rich decor. One can enjoy DJ there during most nights of the week but there  mood’s relaxed rather than strange along with a location close to the city’s Opera House.

•    Jules Verne Panorama Bar: Situated on the 11th floor between the Brasserie Lipp and the Urania Observatory, it provides drinkers with some outstanding and classy view of the city. It is a classical nightlife spot too that is proven by the lengthy wine and cocktail list. Things here can get a bit crowded sometimes, however there only real enjoyment only occurs when there is a crowd in the restaurant.

•    Rohstofflager: It is not only a nightclub but also a regular live music spot for the tight-trousered bands that is described being as ‘admiringly cool’. It is quite famous for alternative dance and music programs that it plays over there. Its main bar also has some outstanding retro lampshades.

Zurich is wonderful place for shopping and is liked by all for shopping purposes and utilities. There are many shopping places in Zurich, where a person can sell and buy out various commodities and goods. The prominent shopping area in the city is around one square kilometer area in the city. Among many shopping places and opportunities in the city, the prominent places to do shopping in the city are:

•    Bahnhofstrasse: This market expands from the Zürich Train Main station “Hauptbahnhof” right down to the lake. Bahnhofsstrasse has reputation r being one of the most exclusive and expensive shopping streets in the world. Here you procure anything from diamond rings to chocolate to fur coats. On the street     Globus and Jelmoli are two fiercely competitive department stores that sales many high-end brands.

•    Niederdorf: This market actually is an old part of Zurich which expands from “Bellevue” by the Lake right to “Central” over the River from the train station. It is rather popular for young ones. It is equally fine as well as suitable for fast food as well as lots of trendy clothes store there.

•    Löwenstrasse: This is the part of the market which spread along the west of Bahnhofstrasse from the main train station and has a cheaper shops and big branch of Migros, which is a department store chain out there.

•    Flohmarkt Bürkliplatz: It is a flea market situated near the Bellevue area has fairly relaxed large flea markets with many interesting stalls.

•    Flohmarkt Kanzlei: It is a big fleamarket that hosts up to 400 stalls on busy days. For book readers there is situated an English language bookstore at the intersection of Bahnhofstrasse and Rennweg.

Swiss clocks and Watches to buy in Zurich

Swiss watches are souvenir items that a traveler ought to procure and purchase in Zurich.  There are many Swatch watches available there which are rather suitable to be procured by everyone. Below are mentioned some popular Swiss watches that can be purchased by a traveler in Zurich.

•    Swatch, they are the cheapest Swiss watches (40-100CHF) and are suited for younger generation. They are available in their stores on Bahnhofstrasse and various other locations and in the department stores.

•    M-Watch which is based upon on both Mondaine and Migros are available in Migros Electronics stores like one is situated on the 2nd floor of the Lowenplatz location. It is also relatively inexpensive (40-100CHF

•    Mondaine is famous for its use of the famous SBB railway clock face. There you can buy on a replica of the SBB clock as a watch or a wall clock in the primary railway stations. They are quartz, and their rates appear to be bit inflated. Most of the SBB railway clocks are actually produced by Mobatime (Moser-Baer AG), not Mondaine, even though Mondaine’s name appears on some of the larger clocks such as the Treffpunkt in Zurich HB.

•    In watches in mid range of 100-500CHF can be get at clock and watch stores throughout the city. There you can have any watch that interests you.

•    In Zurich, other upper end watches like Rolex are also being sold out however, one would have to make extra effort to search watches over there. If you wish to look at some of the most expensive watches there for sale then you can peep into   Bucherer store window at Bahnhofstrasse and have a look that what a 25,000CHF watch looks like.

Swiss handcrafts

•    Schweizer Heimatwerk and Rennweg 14 in the Bellevue area provide Quality Swiss handcrafts and other Swiss-made products which used to be presented there in a gallery like setting. You won’t find many cuckoo clocks and the like here in Germany. There entire emphasis lies on real traditional crafts and the pieces of modern craftspeople. There you will get things like sleek modern hand-blown glassware and beautiful hand-carved wooden items from the Appenzell region.

•    Coop City in Bahnhofstrasse sells the Victorinox line of knifes on a very reasonable rates and prices. They are also carried out many other departmental stores in the city. Many other department stores also carry them. Cutlery shops in Zurich generally have both Victorinox and Wenger lines of products for Swiss army knifes.

Swiss Chocolate

•    Frey is renowned for the Swiss Chocolate market and is primarily is sold at Migros and Denner supermarkets. It offers a premium quality for a customer friendly rates and prices. Frey has percentage of 45% in the market.  Frey is situated merely 30 minutes away from Zurich and provided factory tours for free. It is 100% Swiss and produces as one of the only Swiss manufacturers from bean to bar all by it. It is also available in the market with Private Label offers like as from Marks & Spencer, Loblaw, Tesco, Coles, Woolworths and many more.

•    Lindt other famous chocolate brand is available there at the Coop and other supermarkets, Lindt chocolates are also sold at the factory store that is 15-minute walk from the Kilchberg S-Bahn stop. The factory chocolate prices are comparatively cheaper that supermarket prices. Those are sold for roughly half-price. If Germany is on your itinerary you can also stop at the Lindt factory store in Aachen which is huge. However, at the larger Coop supermarkets carry many brands, including Lindt, Camille Bloch, Goldkenn, and others, including all sorts of alcohol-filled chocolates.

Confectioneries

•    Teuscher: An upscale confiserie that specializes in truffles. There are three stores in Zürich: Bahnhofstrasse 46, Storchengasse 9 and Jelmoli Department Store.

•    Sprüngli: A Zurich institution that offers a variety of sweet and savory goodies including a wide variety of chocolates, from hand-made truffles to special chocolate bars. There are locations throughout the city, including Bahnhofstrasse and inside Zurich HB. Some specialities include the Luxemburgerli, a sort of soft macaroon resembling a hamburger in looks but is actually completely pastry and cream, and comes in a variety of flavors; the Truffe du Jour, a chocolate truffle that is made daily from raw cream and is meant to be consumed immediately; and the extraordinary Grand Cru Sauvage truffle, made from wild cacao beans from Bolivia. Most items are rather pricey but worth it. The flagship store on the Paradeplatz is a very popular spot for breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea. Try their berry-filled muesli, it’s like no other muesli you’ve ever had. There are two handy stores at the Kloten airport for last-minute gifts to bring home.

•    St. Jakobs Confiserie: The background organisation, Behindertenwerk St. Jacob, aims at providing jobs for disabled people.

Zurich is one of the prominent cities of Switzerland that can be visited for being relaxed and remaining cool and calm during holiday and vacations. The city presents a good number of attractive places and landmarks to visit and roam through. There exists a good number of good numbers of places in Zurich to look around and be roamed.

•    Fraumünster: The Fraumünster abbey of Zürich was built in 853 by Louis the German for his daughter Hildegard. He provided the Benedictine convent with the lands of Zürich, Uri, and the Albis forest, and granted keep it under his direct control to provide it immunity and patronage. In 1045, by the King Henry III the convent received the right to hold markets, collect tolls, and mint coins, and thus let the abbess with power to rule the city. Emperor Frederick II granted the abbey Reichsunmittelbarkeit in 1218, so made it therefore independent of all authority and increased the political power of the abbess. The abbess assigned the mayor, and she frequently delegated the minting of coins to citizens of the city. However, by the fourteenth century the political power of the convent soon dwindled down with formation of the Zunftordnung (guild laws) in 1336 by Rudolf Brun, who became the ever first independent mayor of the city.By the 1524 the abbey was entirely dissolved on the course of the reformation of Huldrych Zwingli. The monastery buildings were destroyed in 1898 to make room for the new Stadthaus. The church building presently works as one of the city’s 34 reformed parishes.

•    Landesmuseum: The Swiss National Museum is a part of the Musée Suisse Group, and is affiliated to the Federal Office of Culture and is one of the most important art museums of cultural history in Europe and the world. It is situated at the city of Zurich, Switzerland’s largest city, next to the Hauptbahnhof. The museum is situated in 1898 historicist style and was constructed by the Gustav Gull in the form of the French Renaissance city chateaus. The exhibits in the museum are consisted from prehistoric time to modern period. There is a very rich section in museum with very rich gothic art, chivalry and comprehensive collection of liturgical wooden sculptures, panel paintings and carved altars. Zunfthaus zur Meisen near Fraumünster church houses the porcelain and faience collection of the Swiss National Museum.

•    Kunsthaus: It is one of the most important art museums in Switzerland and Europe, collected by the local Kunstverein, called Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft. Its collection ranges from the middle Ages to contemporary art, with special focus on Swiss art. Kunsthaus too is the tram stop next to the museum, properly on Pfauenplatz, between the museum building and the Schauspielhaus Zürich.

•    Langstrasse: It is a street and quarter in district 4 in Zurich Lanfstrass. With population of around 10,500 on an area of 1.13km, it is notorious as Zurich’s red light area, with an extended crime rate, drug dealing and brothels. It further is the most multicultural area in Zurich with around 42% foreign residents living in this area. As the historical quarter of factory workers during Industrialisation, Aussersihl is also being the traditional site of May Day manifestations.

•    Chinese Garden: It is a Chinese garden in Zurich situated at Seefeld quarter.  It is known to be as a gift from Zurich’s partner town Kunming, dedicated to the Three Friends in winter.  Chinese garden is situated next to the Center Le Corbusier between Blatterwiese and Bellerivestrasse nearby Zürichhorn on the right shore of Lake Zürich. From the start of summer season, the garden remains open from March 18 to October 18. In order to express Zurich’s gratitude for its technical and scientific in the development of the Kunming city drinking water supply and drainage, it gifted this city to Zurich.

•    Lindenhof: In the old town of Zurich it is a historical site of the Roman castle and later on of Carolingian Kaiserpfalz. It is located on the Lindenhof hill, situated to the left at the Schipfe. The castle was remain intact from the 5th to 6th century, but was derelict by the 9th century, when it was reconstructed as a residence for Louis the German, that turned dilapidated and was used as quarry by the 13th century. In 1798, the citizens of Zürich swore the oath on the constitution of the Helvetic Republic on the Lindenhof. While at current period it became a recreational space, a green oasis and automatic free space of the old historic city center.

•    Bahnhofstrasse: It is Zurich’s primary downtown street and has reputation of being one of the world’s most expensive and extraordinary shopping avenues. In a survey recently conducted in 2010 named the Bahnhfstrasse the third most expensive city for retail property in Europe and it is the fifth most expensive market, globally.

•    Grossmünster: The Grossmünster is a Romanesque-style church which reserved a very promoting role in the history of the Protestant Reformation. It is one of the three major churches of Zürich.  The core of the present building near the banks of the Limmat River was made on the site of a Carolingian church that according to legend, in reality commissioned by Charlemagne. The present building of the church was made during 1100 and got inaugurated in 1220. According to legend, the Grossmünster was founded by Charlemagne, whose horse fell to its knees over the tombs of Felix and Regula, Zürich’s patron saints. The present archaeological evidence shows the presence of a Roman burial ground at the site.