Mid-Range in Zurich

MAME Josef

• ★ 4.8
• Cafe
• $$

MAME Josef in Zurich: World-champion barista coffee on a quiet Kreis 5 corner; serious filter coffee mostly known to the city's coffee crowd.

Saltz at The Dolder Grand

• ★ 4.8
• Brunch
• $$

Order Seafood, pastries and the Sunday roast carving station

The Dolder Grand's Sunday brunch is the city's best hotel spread: seafood, charcuterie, pastry, hot kitchen, and the view back across the city.

MAME Roastery

• ★ 4.7
• Coffee roaster
• $$

MAME's Flüelastrasse warehouse roastery, roasting since 2019. Founded by Mathieu Theis and World Brewers Cup champion Emi Fukahori; closed to the public.

Kronenhalle Bar

• ★ 4.7
• Swiss
• $$

Try Bar plates and classics

Gustav Zumsteg's 1965 bar with Robert Haussmann's interior and Diego Giacometti's light fixtures: late drinks, late plates, the city's most filmic room.

MAME Seefeld

• ★ 4.6
• Coffee roaster
• $$

MAME's Seefeld bar on Seefeldstrasse: filter coffee on the counter, retail beans on the shelf, same roastery as Josefstrasse, lake-side crowd.

Restaurant Lindenhofkeller

• ★ 4.6
• Swiss
• $$

Restaurant Lindenhofkeller is cellar room hidden under the lindenhof, easy to walk past; sebastian roesch's bourgeois cooking sits quietly behind the door.

John Baker Stadelhofen

• ★ 4.6
• Brunch
• $$

Order Sourdough toast with butter and honey

Jens Jung's organic bakery at Stadelhofen station: sourdough, levain, filter coffee. The morning standard for an honest Zurich breakfast from 06:30.

Haus Hiltl

• ★ 4.5
• Vegetarian
• $$
• Niederdorf and Old Town

Guinness-recognised oldest vegetarian restaurant, founded 1898 and run by the Hiltl family since 1904. Around 500 dishes; about 90 percent are vegan.

Old Crow

• ★ 4.5
• Cocktail bar
• $$

Try Rare spirits flights and cocktails

The cocktail bar on Schwanengasse: deep rare-spirits library, small room, slow drinks. The drinker's late stop, listed on 50 Best Discovery.

Frau Gerolds Garten

• ★ 4.5
• Swiss
• $$

Frau Gerolds Garten is started as a 2012 pop-up, still feels temporary; zurich locals' summer terrace and winter cheese stube under the rail bridge.

Le Dezaley

• ★ 4.4
• Swiss
• $$
• Niederdorf and Old Town

Opened 1902 beside the Grossmuenster, Le Dezaley pours Lavaux wines and cooks Vaud-region plates: classic fondue, truffle fondue, raclette, saucisson vaudois.

Confiserie Honold

• ★ 4.4
• Bakery
• $$

Order Zueri-Honig-Tirggel

Confiserie Honold has made pralines and Zurich honey Tirggel since 1905. With Rennweg 53 in renovation it trades from a pavilion at the Herkulesbrunnen.

Sternen Grill

• ★ 4.4
• Swiss
• $$

Try St. Galler Bratwurst with mustard and Buerli

Bellevue's grill window kept the city fed after the tram stopped for half a century. Bratwurst, devilish Sternen mustard, Buerli, in the open air.

Cafe Spruengli

• ★ 4.4
• Brunch
• $$

Order Hot chocolate with Luxemburgerli

Cafe Spruengli on Paradeplatz, opened 1836: hot chocolate, Luxemburgerli, croissants, salads, the most Zurich way to start a Sunday on Bahnhofstrasse.

Razzia Bar

• ★ 4.3
• Modern European
• $$

Try Bar plates from the brasserie kitchen

Razzia's art-deco bar runs until midnight Tuesday to Saturday in the former Seefeld cinema. Late kitchen, full European wine list, capable cocktails.

Bauernschaenke

• ★ 4.3
• Soul food
• $$

Bauernschaenke is a soul food room in Zurich. Book for Friday dinner; Saturday afternoons get crowded with the regulars who turn up without a reservation.

Restaurant Swiss Chuchi

• ★ 4.2
• Swiss
• $$
• Niederdorf and Old Town

The oldest fondue room in Zurich's old town, inside Hotel Adler in Niederdorf since 1953. Up to ten fondue variations plus extensive raclette options.

Restaurant Rosso

• ★ 4.2
• Italian, Wood-fired Pizza
• $$
• Kreis 5 and Zurich-West

Inside a converted warehouse beside Hardbruecke station, Rosso cooks thin-crust pizza in real wood ovens to a packed Zurich-West room every night.

Restaurant Markthalle Im Viadukt

• ★ 4.2
• Mediterranean
• $$
• Kreis 5 and Zurich-West

Inside the Im Viadukt rail-arch market hall in Kreis 5, an open-kitchen Mediterranean room with a garden terrace and the city's best produce sourcing.

Miyuko

• ★ 4.2
• Bakery
• $$

Miyuko is sara hochuli's japanese-french patisserie at haus zur weltkugel, relocated 2022; still feels like a discovery off the bahnhofstrasse crowds.

Zeughauskeller

• ★ 4.1
• Traditional Swiss
• $$
• Niederdorf and Old Town

A vaulted former armoury beside Paradeplatz: long shared tables, beer steins, Wienerschnitzel, calf liver, pork knuckle. Open daily 11:30-23:00.

Lily's Original

• ★ 4.1
• Pan-asian
• $$
• Kreis 5 and Zurich-West

Open since 1999 on Langstrasse, Lily's runs long communal tables and an open kitchen serving Japanese noodles, Malaysian satays, Korean salads.

Turbinenbraeu

• ★ 4.1
• Brewery
• $$

Brewing in Altstetten since 1997. Restaurant and beer garden under one roof: about 190 indoor seats, 100 on the terrace; weekly fresh bottling for the city.

Turbinenbraeu Restaurant and Garten

• ★ 4.0
• Brewery
• $$

The brewery's onsite restaurant and Biergarten in Altstetten: about 190 indoor seats and 100 on the terrace, all the Turbinenbraeu beers on draft.

Muehlerama

• ★ 4.0
• Bakery
• $$

Muehlerama in Zurich: A working flour mill museum in Tiefenbrunnen with a baking school; the cafe and shop beside it are still neighbourhood-only.

Restaurant Markthalle

• ★ 4.0
• Brunch
• $$

Order Seasonal Mediterranean plates from the open kitchen

Under the Zurich-West rail viaduct, the Markthalle's open-kitchen restaurant runs all-day brunch with Mediterranean plates and a garden terrace.