Another cool Yelp-event! The goal was to escape from a locked room where the captives could only…read moreget out by mastering several tasks. Soon we found ourselves handcuffed in a room and the fun started. 30 minutes was all we got in round one and the clock on the wall was counting down the seconds - merciless. Soon we got rid of the handcuffs and the team started to explore the room to find information or hints to unlock several drawers or boxes where we would find further means to open doors to other rooms and eventually to escape. A mix of teamwork, combination skills and intuition helped to solve almost all of the riddles. Although we did not succeed on the first attempt , we we're more succesful in the second round and could escape into freedom. Real escape artists we are! A big THANK YOU to Christina for organizing this!

Fantastic event, thrill & chill. What more could you ask for?…read more Thank you Christina for organising this zero calories event just at the beginning of bikini season :D Loved the spirit of the teams. Everyone was very friendly and looked forward to having a great time. It was great that we were enough people to have opposing teams. I think it added even more pressure. As if that damn countdown wasn't enough. Reenacting Jack Bower during one hour was super fun!

We started the workshop with an in detail introduction to the basics of photography by the amazing…read moreFirava. We know know much about the light's importance, how to enhance it and also the positioning of foods in their environments. After the theory, we were unleashed on some great food samples. We were to put our newly learned stuff right to the test in this awesome location.

Many specialty grocery stores exist, but this is your best option if you're into tea, coffee, dried…read morefruits, or chocolates! The store is roughly divided in half. Facing the building, the right half is dedicated mostly to tea and dried goods with a few other items thrown in. The left half sells specialty chocolate bars and coffee. If you're from the states you'll find those chocolate bars and other items surprisingly cheap. It's worth browsing just to see and smell the selection of this classic shopping choice. Staff is helpful and does speak English.

This charming and detailed store offers a high end assortment of items such as teas, roasted…read morecoffees, salts, spices, nuts, dried fruits, and oh, did I mention chocolates? This feels like it is right out of a store from Harry Potter, classic, old, and chock full of history. Overwhelmed with an assortment of what to buy, we only walked out with a beautiful container of Sea Salt. Somehow when it is offered here versus at Coop, it seems more decadent, even when it is the same product. This establishment stands proudly amongst other alluring businesses in the old part of Zurich. You must step inside the doors of this beautiful store, as it is truly a gem located in the heart of the city. Don't miss it.

I was early for an apt. viewing, so I took a little time looking around Kreis 4. Now I know where…read morethe South American 'ladies' and sex clubs are all tucked away. I wasn't too disappointed that the apt. I eventually viewed wasn't up to snuff. In any case, I was strolling down a street close to my appt. when I happened upon an image of an Aztec warrior decorating a store front. Initially, I had hoped it was another Latin American food stuffs store, so I slowed my roll to get a better look at the place. Inside stood a bearded dude behind a table/counter in front of an espresso machine. That was the hook. I had to go in and get a good eye-full. Along one side of the shop hung various roasted beans in both 250 & 500 gram increments along the wall for sale. The table-counter took up the bulk of the shop space where one ostensibly orders both beans from bins tucked away in an adjacent room (wasn't offered those, but saw others purchase that way) or helps himself to a bag from the wall offerings. The beans are roasted in a neighboring city and brought to Zuerich for sale. One could also purchase coffee accouterments in store, and, as it is the 21st century, one may also purchase any and all the shop has to offer from their website. Danny, the dude who helped me, makes one feel very welcomed with a warm personality and an ability to 'shoot the shit' that I so enjoy. I could barely understand his dialect, so he said he'd 'try' to speak Hochdeutsch. I think his response was something like, 'you've got to learn!' He's right. *cash only!

Worst service. Try paying with credit or euro. Refused pay and when I came back with the chf she…read morerefused service and sent me away! Ha! Not recommended at all!

Café Tacuba opened its doors very recently, and has no less ambitious goal than letting everyone…read morehave the best coffee possible, whether it be in the public café itself, or at home. And that ambition covers the whole process from sourcing the beans to the way they're put in the cup. Beans are bought directly from selected farms, roasted in small batches in the roaster that stands decoratively in the café itself, and customers don't just buy the coffee, they also get background information and helpful tips on how to best prepare it at home. Co-founder Manolo is a former coffee farmer from El Salvador, and much off the coffee roasted, served and sold at Tacuba is actually purchased from friends and relatives of his. There is a lot of emphasis on the fact that the farms are paid above average prices. Apparently, the few francs a kilo that Tacuba's coffee costs more than supermarket roasts allow them to pay the farmers around double the usual wages. They also explain that they don't only buy when the harvest has been big and successful, which gives a much higher financial security to smaller farms. It's a very worthy cause. Fittingly, all single origin coffee is described in detail, including name and location of the farm, variety of coffee plant, and treatment method. (They also offer some blends at lower prices, though.) From the moment you're greeted in the café, it's obvious how dedicated the staff is to coffee. They are keen on telling you why their coffee is so much different and better, explaining what you're tasting when you take a sip, and why. They also tell you how to best treat the beans you purchase for preparation at home (some coffee-making equipment is for sale.) And the coffee is really absolutely delicious! If you're used to the hereabouts much more common, Italian style of coffee, you might be in for a surprise. It's a much more fruity, "lively" drink, that actually tastes a lot more like what you'd expect from something prepared from a berry. Without trying to start sounding too much like a wine guide, there's sweetness, there's a sourness - not the acidic kind of a lot of espresso, but a citric, fruity kind - and hints of spices. I was very pleasantly surprised at how different this coffee, prepared through a filter - an often unjustly dismissed method - was from what I was used to. Because of the small batches they buy and roast, staff told me that the selection of coffee they offer will be constantly changing. And because they don't roast the beans to death like so many other roasteries do until everything tastes the same, but try to keep as much of the original flavour as possible intact, it's really amazing to taste how coffee can be so much more varied than the usual offers. The café has seating for about a dozen people and, what's very cool, staff gives you the choice on how you want your coffee to be prepared, whether through the espresso machine or one of several filter methods. The common coffee drinks are also offered - yes, you can get your latte or cappuccino here, as well as some pastries to go with it. I would already describe Café Tacuba as a must-visit for anyone who likes coffee, with an open mind to maybe discover new aspects of a drink they thought they knew, and learn something in the process. I'm sure I will be back here many times in the future, drinking coffee and knowledge at the same time :)

Good iced mocha and chicken avocado grilled cheese that was good but not best I've had. I would go…read moreback for sure though and try something else to eat with a delicious coffee bev. Also had matcha which I would try next time.