What are the best and cheapest places to eat in Zurich and around Zurichsee, under 20chf for a meal? I am talking about good nutrition where you can get real meat, not McDonald's and kebab.
The Manor restaurant on Bahnhoftrasse offers some good choices of nutrition for reasonable prices. The underground floor of Jelmoli Zurich has a few restaurants where meals are around 20chf.
In Rapperswil we have the Migros Restaurant in the Sonnenhof shopping center and a few kebab places...
Pfaffikon SZ has a few choices: Sukhothai close to the Bahnhof where meals are 16-19 chf, close to the Gemainde Pfaffikon SZ is China Restaurant Lung Fung where a chicken fried rice meal is 13chf, and Metzg am Dorfplatz on the ground floor of the same building owned by the parents of «DSDS»-Star Beatrice Egli that offers meals for 14chf.
Please contribute with your tasty, nutritious and inexpensive food discoveries.
There's an ok place on the west end of langstrasse called Pho Vietnam that does a pretty good Pho Bo dish (vs standards I experienced in NYC) for approx CHF18. Would avoid the chicken satay though as the chicken is seemingly the dregs of the barrel, if you catch my drift....
There is Migros restaurant at Hofwiesenstrasse (nearby Globus Herren). You can get all hot meals, made-to-order pasta and pizza and salad bar under 20 CHF.
At Hiltle, you can have any item from the menu (not buffet) with free refill (if you can eat a lot) but most items are around 30-35 CHF.
Saigon (near Sihlstrasse) or Chez Nahn has almost everything under/around 20 CHF. Vietnamese food and very good.
Halk Pazari Grocery Store Tramstrasse 10, Oerlikon, Zürich 8050
It's a big shop with a restaurant/take away on the side. The daily menus are home cooked, fresh and include lots of vegetables. I recently ate a large plate of stuffed vegetables..aubergine, courgette, pepperoni and tomato served with thick yoghurt and the biggest basket of fresh bread (baked on the premises) that I've ever seen here in Switzerland.
The place is spotlessly clean, simple service and friendly.
Not a lot of people know this but you can also use the SBB (staff) restaurant above HB, there is a lift on the Museumstrasse side, near the police office, I think its the third floor.
Its a really cheap subsidised staff restaurant, but it is open to the public as well so you don't need to feel weird going in and they do daily meal deals which includes a salad and a drink for around 14.- to 16.-
Jucker Farm in Seegräben ZH is open 365 days per year. Their lunch buffet runs about Fr 3.50per 100g. One slice of bread is free with every plate. They also sell bottles of fresh squeezed apple juice for Fr 3 per liter. My family of four eats there for under Fr 50.
Dinner is a lot more expensive as they have the grill going and don't have as much on the buffet to choose from.
http://alpenblickmeilen.ch/ (Toggwil above Meilen 8706) is worth a visit as well, simple but good Swiss menu under Chf20. We visit more in summer as they have a great beer garden with playgound for the kids. Normally we park there and do a walk up to Pffanensteil and back for a late lunch so a nice day out.
That is very good to know. This type of "secret" places is what I was looking for when I started this discussion topic. I will have to try this sbb restaurant this week. Are they only open for lunch or also in the evening?
Another great place to eat is the UBS restaurant which is also open to the public.
I love Friends Corner in between Zürich HB and Hardbrücke (Josefstrasse 140). It is around 16CHF for a huge amount of food (enough to feed two easily). It is maybe not the best ambiance for stay in food, but for cheap good Indian I havent found better!