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The Restaurant (*2): run run run of the mill
Did you think I will leave you hanging with no fine dining? We began the year by visiting one of the five of Zürich’s 2* restaurants, The Restaurant. We could talk about how self aware you have to be, to name your restaurant The Restaurant but why would we, really?
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Meating: back to the sad past
Our move to Switzerland does not end with Zürich. The goal is to find an apartment in Zug, the third smallest canton in the country. To this effect, we went on a scouting trip and decided to stop for dinner. A dinner that veritably took us 10-20 years back.
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Scappatella Milanese (Part II)
Our weekend escape to Milan continues with more food and, finally, some misses and near disasters, oh, and also cultural activities! We ended up having some indulgingly good times with our F&B, a visit to Teatro alla Scala and then some. A perfect weekend getaway.
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Scappatella Milanese (Part I)
After a week spent in Zürich doing bureaucratic stuff we felt like we needed an escape and at 3:30 hours away by train Milan proved to be a handy destination. Milan is not my favourite city in Italy but beggars can’t be choosers, can they? At least we ate well!
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Wirtshaus Galliker: please save me from myself
I will take a deep breath in, I will hold it, I will exhale and I will introduce you to my first encounter with Swiss food. Needless to say, it was not good. Do you want salty? Because this is how you get salty. But ask yourselves first, are you really ready for it? Leggo.
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Tasca La Farmacía: a quirky eatery in barrio Castellana
If you thought we are done with Spain just because I have moved to Switzerland, you would be sorely mistaken. I still have a few months-worth of Spanish eating and I am more than happy to share the places we have visited over the summer months of 2022.
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Welcome to Switzerland!
I guess it’s no news to anyone that we moved to Switzerland. 2022 was a wild year that took us from Singapore to Spain to Tanzania to Lithuania… and now we are here. Welcome to this particular wild ride: I promise to be your mentally unhinged guide. We start with Italian!
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Chuka Ramen Bar: a Japanese place it ain’t
The title is misleading, of course, Chuka Ramen Bar is a Japanese place or, rather, a pan-Asian fusion restaurant serving a variety of East Asian inspired items, bao and ramen the two most prominent amongst them. Chuka Ramen Bar was one interesting place indeed.
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Quique Dacosta: better than expected and yet
Quique Dacosta both the chef and the restaurant were a mystery to me before I decided to make a reservation at his 3* eatery located in a small town called Dénia tucked on a scraggy Mediterranean coast. Coming with no preconceived notions I left quite contented and yet…
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Poor man’s dinner: random pizza it is
We found ourselves out of dinner options a few times and somehow a random pizza place always cropped up on the horizon inviting our hungry selves to stop trying to find “something actually good” and give up, give in and just go with the flow. And that we did.