Monthly Archives: January 2013

La Baracca – A small Italian island in Switzerland

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Zurich – Yesterday we celebrated the birthday of a very good friend in the Baracca in “Kreis” 4 in Zurich. Massimo and his team welcomes every guest and you feel a little bit as if you were visiting your Italian relatives at home.

The food is indiscussably good, the pizza is crispy on the bottom and the topping always fresh and an explosion of flavour in the mouth, the pasta is not just macceroni or penne, but spignoli, strozzapreti or other interesing varieties with delicious sauces, the fish or meat just excellent, simple and good. The atmosphere is very relaxed and you can just enjoy a perfect evening with your friends. It can get quite lively and loud later in the night. This restaurant definitely one of my favourite places in Zurich.

www.ristorante-labaracca.ch

Fantastic and new AURA

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On 18 January the AURA opens officially its doors. It is an event location, restaurant, bar and smokers-lounge centrally located in Zurich nearby Paradeplatz.

Of course I had to visit the restaurant asap and did so last Thursday. The “aura” is fantastic with a surprising interior design. The AURA restaurant works a lot with natural wood, chandelliers, oversized pots with plants, matching background music, different table tops and very friendly service. This place could be also in Cape Town, New York or Buenos Aires.

I had the US beef (aged 6 weeks on the bone) and it was quite good. You can have this meat only for 2 person, but the presentation of the food is worth it, it really comes with the bone…my friend chose the fish and was really happy with it. So really worth going there, but also a little pricy.

If you need a venue for an event up to 600 people, check out the rooms next by in the “Alte Börse” that have all been renewed. The main attraction is the 360° 3D projection.

www.aura-zurich.ch

Parma – Best Gnocchi north of the Alps

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About two weeks ago we went skiing in Davos. Not to miss is a visit in Parma, THE Italian restaurant in Davos with its own open charcoal grill in the main restaurant. They serve Gnocchi to die for with their secret recepy and mouthwatering sauce. I already tried to get the ingredients out of the couple that leads the restaurant, since I know it from 2005, but no chance. I also recommend everything else they serve, even the green salad with the french dressing is delicious. Don’t miss to book a table in advance, otherwise you wont get in or end up in the room beside the restaurant which isn’t as nice and cosy.

Restaurant Parma
Dammstrasse 2, 7270 Davos Platz, Switzerland
Tel: +41 81 413 48 66

Il Camino – worth going the way

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In December I was in Zurich in Il Camino. I read that a mother and her daughter took over the restaurant in August 2009 together with an Austrian cook since May 2012. The inside of the restaurant located just next the newly opened “Europaallee” did not change much. Its cosy with a little twist of Swissness and could be also somewhere in the Alps. The food and wine was delicious and service very friendly and attentive. They have also a private room for max 12 guests on the upper floor (looks like another smaller livingroom in the house) and a garden in summer. So worth going there:

www.restaurant-camino.ch