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Friendly, relaxed, welcoming place for coffee, snacks, or mostly light dishes. It’s a cooperative. We ordered the specials of the day (or week?), the 29 CHF BAUERBRATWURST mit BRATKARTOFFELN (apparently bacon-less bratkartoffeln) und SAUERKRAUT and also the 20 CHF BORSCHT mit SOJAHACK KRÄUTERJOGHURT und KNOBLAUCHBROT (see photos). The borscht was very nice, we’ve rarely paid 20 CHF for a bowl of soup, but worth it as it was very good and not something we can easily get back home. Bratwurst was not special, dried out and small, just okay. Typical shockingly high Zürich prices (USA lens), so no problem there. Our very pleasant waiter was more focused on visiting with friends, seated at a nearby table talking at length despite many customers to serve. After ordering and quietly waiting without question about 30 minutes and wondering whether they were flying the borscht in from Russia or something, the nice guy woke up and darted to our table and apologized profusely for not putting our order in, we said no worries we’ll wait. To his credit, without prompting he offered us free olives and bread while we waited which was thoughtful and appreciated. Twice more the nice guy sat down and resumed chatting with his friends but did see to it that our food was finally delivered after 45 minutes. Had we been in a rush that day we might have said how about focusing on your customers but we were trying to be cool and thus one waits 45 minutes for a bowl of soup. We did like our server and this place, but it’s apparently not a good choice if you need to be somewhere at a specific time. 😎 ☮️