Hotel Greulich. New Chef

Great news for food lovers visiting Zurich, Hotel Greulich has announced a new chef and a new concept for the Greulich restaurant.  Young, innovative, and regional are trademarks of Chef Marco Hartmann.  The 28-year old has trained both in Switzerland and abroad.  Being originally from Zurich gives him insider knowledge of regional and seasonal specialties.  In the creation of his menu Hartmann says “I want to create classic and seasonal dishes, that are understandable for the guests.”

The uncomplicated kitchen concept focuses on sustainable development, a philosophy that harmoniously melds with that of Greulich.  Local flavours, grown in the region, some even in Greulich’s house garden, will be complimented by a light Mediterranean touch of herbs and spices. The menu offers seasonal specials and year round classics, with special dishes for vegetarians, as well as new selection of seasonal wines. The hotel boasts a Steinbock Label, which acknowledges their focus on sustainability, regional products, and the support of a healthy lifestyle.

The new chef isn’t the only change to the restaurant; a new lighting concept, table presentation and menus all enhance the already popular space.  Locals and jet setters can be found mingling at both the restaurant and bar. An additional highlight is the inner courtyard seating area, where you can enjoy a business lunch in the midday breeze or a romantic dinner under the stars. Don’t miss the Saletta for business or the bar, boasting artwork from Pipilotti Rist, where locals and visitors alike mingle.

The restaurant re-opens under it’s new guiding light on the 12th August.

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Categories: Zurich, Food

Contributing writer: Alicia Reuter

Jake and Dinos Chapman: Die Dada Die

Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich

“Dada philosophy is the sickest, most paralyzing and most destructive thing that has ever originated from the brain of man.” Or, that’s how one reviewer for American Art News felt about it. Time, however, is a funny thing. What was once called sick and destructive is now housed in museums. Even John Waters, who’s Pink Flamingos was banned in some countries, has had a museum show while, and not to imply a direct comparison, more recent coprophagia film Two Girls One Cup has been numerously cited as an indicator of declining morality.

It’s difficult to think of a more appropriate pair of artists than Jake and Dinos Chapman to undertake the job of going back to the birthplace of Dada to confront the legacy of the movement on its home turf at the world famous Cabaret Voltaire. After all, it’s hardly a stretch to imagine that what was written in American Art News about Dada had been written about any number of the Chapmans works. After researching in the Dada archives in Zurich, they decided that Dada cannot be rectified; it must either be illustrated or “de-Dadaised,” meaning that the elements of the Dada ideal must be broken apart in order to be put back together again.

Alongside a series of Dada inspired collages is a new work following the artist’s previous interventions directly on the surface of works by Goya, Hogarth, and Adolf Hitler. This time it is a Brueghel the Younger crucifixion scene completed in 1607, which sat in the artists’ studio for a year before they began their work making their own mark on the old master. Dada proclaimed that for everything that art stood for, they stood for the opposite. This exhibition at Cabaret Voltaire is a perfect opportunity to consider what art stands for today.

June 10 – August 22, 2010 at Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich

If your stopping over in Zurich, do it at the Greulich Hotel.

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Categories: Zurich, Art

Contributing writer: Melissa Frost

Greulich. 7 Years Hot

Our special place in Zurich, the Greulich Hotel is 7 years old today and it’s still as hot as ever.

Subscribe for our Bulletins before Sunday 31 July with “Greulich” as your favourite hotel, and one lucky winner will win a two night stay courtesy of White Line Hotels.

Restaurant Greulich

If the Vuvuzelas and the unending football talk have got you a little overwhelmed, escape to the Greulich restaurant in Zurich and experience celebrated chef David Martínez Salvany’s inventive kitchen.  Serving up Spanish Catalonian influenced menu, with a hint of the Orient, you’ll be transported.  Regional specialties and slow food are essential to the cuisine.  The Greulich promises a football free zone through the 11th of July.  A special 3-course menu has been prepared for the occasion, at only 65 Swiss Francs per person.

David will leave the Greulich Restaurant behind on the 31st July for pastures new.  The restaurant will be closed until the official relaunch on the 11th August. Details, of this new chapter in the Greulich Restaurants history, coming just as soon as we get them.

Through August you can stay at the Greulich from Friday to Monday, three nights, for the price of only two.  Use one of the Greulich bikes to explore Zurich’s design district, galleries, bars and cafés easily from the centrally located hotel.  Relax along the banks of the river Sihl, or retreat to their birch grove, to enjoy an evening meal and a refreshing glass of wine.

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Categories: Zurich, Food

Contributing writer: Alicia Reuter

No Ball Games

Something’s going on this June. Oh yeah, that over-talked about World Cup thing.

Not all places are embracing the game because, believe it or not, it’s not everyone’s be all and end all. Life and travel does carry on around World Cup time for those who let it.

Want to escape it? Here’s how.

We’re offering you retreats and hideaways so you don’t have to put up with the bad behaviour, the tantrums, the tears, the injuries or the opinions.  Get on the ball and go and do something else, somewhere else.

The Greulich Hotel is setting the tone with their No-Goal dinners, while these other hotel gems have told us their places will be football free:

Aenea, Worthersee, Austria
Krafft Basel, Basel
Lesic Dimitri, Korcula, Croatia
Inis Meain, Arran Islands, Ireland
Hotel des Academies, Paris
Ca’pisani, Venice
Hotel J, Stockholm
Hotel Skeppsholmen, Stockholm
Town Hall Hotel & Apartments, London

The Greenwich, New York
New Majestic, Singapore
The Retreat, Tanzania

Go somewhere where football fever isn’t being forced fed to you.