Sternen Grill
- ★ 4.8
- Street food
- $
Try St. Galler Bratwurst with mustard and Buerli
Bellevue's bratwurst window: grilled St. Galler Bratwurst with devilishly sharp Sternen mustard and a crispy Gold-Buerli. Zurich's late-night sausage.
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19 places
Confiserie Spruengli
- ★ 4.7
- Bakery
- $
Order Luxemburgerli
Founded 1836 on Bahnhofstrasse, 190 years in 2026. Luxemburgerli macarons, handcrafted chocolates, pralines, the canonical Zurich confectionery counter.
MAME Josef
- ★ 4.7
- Café
- $
Drink Single-origin filter coffee
Founded 2016 by Mathieu Theis and World Brewers Cup champion Emi Fukahori. Single-origin beans roasted in-house, served on ceramic on polished wood.
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John Baker Stadelhofen
- ★ 4.6
- Bakery
- $
Order Rye sourdough
Opened 2013 by Jens Jung: organic bread freshly prepared on site daily, flour milled in-house. Olive bread, fruit bread, rye, the whole organic catalogue.
Spruengli Paradeplatz Confiserie
- ★ 4.6
- Bakery
- $
Order Truffes du Jour
Spruengli's flagship Paradeplatz boutique: Truffes du Jour (fresh daily, 48-hour shelf life), chocolate bars, tortes, and the most Zurich gift basket.
MAME Seefeld
- ★ 4.6
- Café
- $
Drink Single-origin filter coffee
MAME's Seefeld outpost: same single-origin discipline, lake-side neighbourhood. Filter on the bar, retail beans on the shelf, very serious about extraction.
Cafe Spruengli Paradeplatz
- ★ 4.6
- Café
- $
Drink Hot chocolate with Luxemburgerli
The mothership confiserie cafe on Paradeplatz, founded 1836, celebrating 190 years in 2026. Luxemburgerli, chocolates, the canonical hot chocolate.
Vorderer Sternen
- ★ 4.6
- Street food
- $
Try Cervelat and Bratwurst with Buerli
The Bellevue Platz grill window with Sternen Grill, selling cervelat and bratwurst with crisp Buerli bread rolls. Locally famous for the St. Galler.
Haus Hiltl
- ★ 4.6
- Vegetarian
- $
Try Pay-by-weight vegetarian buffet
The world's oldest vegetarian restaurant: pay-by-weight buffet keeps lunch under CHF 25 if you stay disciplined. 500 dishes, 90 percent vegan.
John Baker Helvetiaplatz
- ★ 4.5
- Bakery
- $
Order House loaf
John Baker's Helvetiaplatz outpost on Molkenstrasse: same organic flour, same sourdough discipline, smaller room, easy stop after the Kreis 4 market.
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tibits
- ★ 4.5
- Vegetarian
- $
Try Pay-by-weight vegetarian buffet
Hiltl's casual spin-off from 2000: pay-by-weight vegetarian buffet, around 40 dishes a day, broad hours and the same buffet-by-grams pricing model.
John Baker Stadelhofen Cafe
- ★ 4.4
- Café
- $
Drink Filter coffee with sourdough toast
Jens Jung's organic bakery cafe at Stadelhofen station: sourdough, levain, organic flour milled on site, a counter spot for breakfast before the train.
Frau Gerolds Garten
- ★ 4.4
- Café
- $
Drink Summer spritz
Started as a 2012 pop-up beside Hardbruecke station, now a 20,000-square-metre urban garden, bar and eatery. Summer terrace, winter cheese stube.
Hiltl Takeaway
- ★ 4.4
- Street food
- $
Try Vegetarian pay-by-weight
Haus Hiltl's takeaway counter on Sihlstrasse: pay-by-weight from the vegetarian buffet, curries, salads, mock meats. Quick lunch with proper provenance.
Cafe und Conditorei 1842
- ★ 4.3
- Bakery
- $
Order Hot chocolate and cake
The former Conditorei Schober, a 13th-century house spanning four floors. Run since 2019 by the Arbeitskette Foundation as Cafe und Conditorei 1842.
Markthalle Im Viadukt Stalls
- ★ 4.3
- Mediterranean
- $
Try Mediterranean lunches and takeaway
Under the rail viaduct in Zurich-West: takeaway stalls of charcuterie, cheese, hot Mediterranean plates. A budget lunch with respectable provenance.
Lily's Original
- ★ 4.0
- Street food
- $
Try Asian noodle bowls
Open since 1999 on Langstrasse, Lily's pan-Asian counter runs long communal tables: Japanese noodles, Malaysian satays, Korean salads, Pakistani curries.
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