I-Lin L.
Yelp
My friend took me here to experience fine dining in Zürich. We got the 4 course surprise menu with wine pairings. With a glass of champagne before dinner, I think the total bill was around 300 CHF. This is probably the most expensive meal I have ever eaten in my life.
I posted 7 photos of our meal:
1. This was not a course, but came with the bread. So cute, they had a little dish of alfalfa sprouts, and you had to snip off the sprouts to eat. I think the white thing in the middle was some kind of cream or butter.
2. Bread basket. The white bread on the left was very yummy. Crusty on the outside, soft and warm on the inside. The middle bread crisps were very salty.
3. Appetizer course came with a glass of white wine. I think from Italy. Left side was a tiny piece of grilled octopus over a small glass of cream soup. Middle was a delicious scallop over some eggplant mush. The scallop was very good. So soft, almost like it was raw, but very yummy. Right was a small salad with deep-fried shrimp paste ball. The wine was a bit sweet and good at first, but after eating the food, it had a fishy aftertaste which I did not like so much.
4. Second course also came with white wine. I think from Austria or Spain, but I cannot remember. The wine was a bit more dry, so not really sweet. White asparagus with green peas, white cream sauce and raw egg yolk. Not sure what the dark stuff was. Probably some kind of vegetable.
5. Meat course came with red wine. Forget where from. (There was a sommelier who explained the origin of each wine, but it was too much for me to remember.) Some kind of red meat (maybe beef?) with some vegetables. In the cup was mashed potato layers with beef cheek pieces, topped with fried onions. The food was very salty.
6. Dessert came with a sweet white wine. Almost like those ice wines from Canada. The bottom left is a cake with rhubarb on top. Right side is a frozen sour cream scoop with some crunchy thing on top. In the cup was a rich, creamy pudding on the bottom, and a bit sour rhubarb foam on top. Not sure what all the layers were, but some kind of pudding thing.
7. Last photo was of some sweets. A dried fruit thing, a jelly thing, and a piece of chocolate truffle.
This has got to be one of my best meals in Zurich, because everything was so beautifully presented. I loved analyzing the different tastes of the food both with and without the wine. The only reason why I didn't give this review 5 stars is because some of the food was a bit too salty for my taste.