Dinner in Zürich

Holiday, celebrate :D We had made some plans to fly/drive somewhere nice like Barcelona for our holiday but due to couple of things our holiday was moved some weeks forward and we thought that we could as well stay in Switzerland and visit some nice restaurants...to use the money planned for hotel and flight tickets for restaurants around here. Yesterday my hubby had to pick up some chilies for his working place from Zürich and I also had to pay my working place a visit so we decided to combine this trip with a dinner in some nice place

I had dreamed about a warm and sunny summer day, drinks and a walk at the Zürich lake, maybe some tapas or sushi on a sunny terrace before heading for dinner at the lake. Na ja, it was not to be because the weather doesn't want to co-operate with us. They have actually promised some snow for tommorro. Crazy, isn't it?

So we changed our plan for a visit at the Globus (delicates store shopping) and pre dinner drinks at the bar of the Widder hotel. At the last minute I remembered that a friend of ours, who we hadn't seen forever, works at the bar in Four Points by Sheraton so we paid her a visit at the Urbano bar.

Pre dinner drinks at the Urbano bar

Restaurant Quai 61

As a dinner place for us we chose the Quai 61, which has actually had it's open only on the 11th of May. So a new place. The atmosphere in the restaurant was really nice, kind of 20s/30s ocean feeling. Service was polite and professional. The only real minus point was, that our waiter didn't remember the day's fish special.

As a aperitif we were recommended a Lillet Vive (Lillet Blanc, Tonic, cucumber, mint and strawberry) which was super good. I shall forget  about Aperol spriz and Hugo and go for Lillet this summer ;D While wating for the aperitifs a small basket of bread was brought to the table and service also poured some olive oil for the bread.

From the restaurant tables there is a lovely view of the Zürich lake. Take a note at the olive oil and salt on the table.

Food itself was really good. Nothing bad to say there. Specially the octopus was brilliant. All in all we paid 220 CHF for the dinner and I have to say that it was money well spend. The Quai 61 has also a really lovely looking terrace and we will definitely have to go back at some point when the weather lets you sit outside, sip some cocktails and admire the sunset :D This is what we ate:

As a starter:

Marinated octopus with spicy chorizo, celery and ciabatta with sun dried tomatos

Honey flavoured goat cheese with zucchini salat, mint and roasted almonds

As a main course:

Pan fried pike perch with ginger beurre blanc and carrot puree

Entrecote of Crand cru beef with caponata vegetables, port wine jus and fried potatos

As a dessert:

Warm chocolate cake with cherry soup and vanilla ice cream

Destroyed cheese cake: cream cheese espuma, mango ragout and crumble

After dessert:

Two espressos 

Starter with goat cheese

Starter with octopus and Chorizo-sausage

In the restaurant.

Main course: Pike perch

Main course: Entercote

Without the clouds you could probably see a lovely sunset

Dessert: Chocolate cake

Dessert: destroyed cheese cake

The place. By the way, you can see the kitchen on our arrival