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OT: Bars/restuarants/people in Zurich?
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As title. I'm going there next week, where's good to eat/drink and is
anyone there to join in?
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The Niederdorfstrasse is where many drinking establishments are.
A fair few reasonable restaurants in the area too. Not sure what "ein Grosses"
(500 ml beer) would cost these days; think it was pushing Fr4.50 in '99.
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Not aware of any regular posters there, but Basel's only 50 miles
away. There was a poster last year, Bill McMinn IIRC, who worked there
at the time (but lived somewhere else). I could dig out an email
address if you like.
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If there's a Harry's Bar there, I'd love to know where that is.
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I wouldn't take mine off anyway, it's bad manners to undress at the
dinner table until the cigars are passsed round.
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You'll be stuffed after July 1st then. I thought you didn't smoke anyway?
The smoking ban lasted about 2 days in Spain, now they've made up some new
rules. No smoking in bars which serve food, unless it's 'workers' food
The posh smokers may be about to move downmarket.
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Um, are you going plane spotting with my other half.....?
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Only to find the one I'll be leaving on.
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Phew. Had me worried for a minute, there.
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I don't think so. I'm after any pub or bar that's called "Harry's Bar".
It's a competition I've got going with a mate[1] to see how many you
can collect, with the furthest north/south/east/west.
I reckon I'm onto a winner with this job and have said so, but I need
all the help I can get to really drive the p(o)int home.
[1] to drink in and be photographed with the sign
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That wouldn't be a list of bars that sell Jameson's, by any chance?
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I think it seems to indicate that there isn't a Harry's Bar in Zurich. I've
only been in one Harry's Bar, in the Waldorf in New York, and I don't think
it was an actual Harry's Bar. I also went to a place called Joe Allen's, on
the other side of Times Square somewhere, which was excellent. This was all
a long time ago, mind.
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Only it doesn't have the excellent C'est What? in Toronto on it, which
I dearly wish was my local.
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There's certainly one in Venice (obviously) & another in Rome. No
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Wow, I had no idea. Definitely the same establishment, is it?
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jacket required, just a very healthy credit card.
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Can't be Harry's, then. You *have* to keep your jacket on while at the
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SWMBO was sent a load of posters about the ban yesterday with orders to
display them in the cafe. The builders weren't at all happy.
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Same as what? I have no idea which one you're talking about. I assumed
Venice as that's almost certainly the most famous due to the Hemmingway
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Heh, well Andalusia can claim a cultural connection there. I think Hemmingway
spent more time in Ronda than Venice. BIMBW.
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connection, & the birthplace of the Bellini & Carpaccio, but now I
suspect you're thinking of another one?
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never heard of it. The top search result for a bar of that name in the
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durrr - it's ultra-posh.
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but how have /you/ heard of it? You're considerably less posh than I
am.
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Because I'm pos-h. I've been known to take luncheon at the Carlton
Tower, because going to roar on the Hammers in E13.
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UK is in the City
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Ah, I've not heard of that one.
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for me "Harry's Bar" is the one in Venice, named after Harry
Pickering.
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ah, I was right:
From The Evening Standard[1]:
"In short, it goes something like this. In 1978 Mark Birley, enamoured
of the original Harry's Bar in Venice, decided to set up his own
version at 26 South Audley Street, Mayfair. The original bar was
opened by Giuseppe Cipriani in 1931 on St Mark's Bay waterfront and is
famed for the Bellini, a cocktail of prosecco and the fresh juice of
white peaches named after Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini."
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table.
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We went to the one in Venice, but only for drinks, so I don't know what
the table rules were.
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Don't know the city at all, I'm afraid. And never heard of a chain of
that name either.
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