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Kosher food list 2022

Zurich
HOTELS
-The Park Hyatt is fantastic and a 10 minute walk to shul.
Tram stop: Stockerstrasse

RESTAURANTS

Meat:

Florentin - Located inside he JCC https://florentin.rest/
Tram stop: Bahnhof Enge

Grill Cave

Food truck. Check website for opening hours. Burgers, sandwiches, hot dogs etc.
https://www.thegrillcave.co/


Milk/Parve:

Babi's Bagels (Bederstrasse corner Klopstockstrasse 8002 Zürich) Tram Stop "Waffenplatzstrasse"

Bakery:
Ma'Adan Bakery
Manessestrasse/Schimmelstrasse
Has delicious pastries and also sells sandwiches, salads, and some sushi.

Butcher:
Metzgerei Kol Tuv

Can preorder for pickup.
Can also deliver throughout Switzerland by post.
See website for details.

https://www.koltuv.ch/en

ATTRACTIONS
-Walk around the lake area
-Bahnhofstrasse window shopping
-Take a train to Lucerne and buy the golden ticket, included a boat ride on Lake Lucerne, cogwheel train and tram. Then take bus back to Lucerne
-When you arrive in Lucerne you can go to the tourist office to see a live view from Mount Pilatus (Or you can check online). If it's cloudy skip the cogwheel train and just take a nice boatride and explore the town, ancient bridges, and walk on top of the old city fortress walls.




Options in the Alps

Arosa: Metropol Hotel - quaint little old hotel. Not very fancy - it's like honeymooning in your grandmother's house (HT: Mrs. Moishebatchy). The food is very basic, but delicious. Mikva on premises. If skiing is your thing, the have an agreement with one of the ski places (Härtner) not to charge Metropol customers for ski rentals over Shabbos.


Need a meal on shabbes, please PM me (Chuchem). I live 15 minute walk from the hyatt, close to chabad. Zürich has no eiruv!

Major Attractions
“Please edit the wiki to add more attractions”

Central Switzerland
-Lucerne, Pilatus Offers: Cogwheel, Gondolas, Alpine Sliding, Mini Zip-line and fun area
-Titlis Offers: Gondolas, Snow Tubing, Trutti Bikes, Ice Museum, Row Boating
-Brunni Offers: Gondolas, Alpine Sliding, Stroll in Lake(!)

Jungfrau Region
-Jungfrau/jungfraujoch Click here for the Kosher hotel in Wengen / 360-degree panorama of Jungfraujoch-Top of Europe
-Grindelwald Offers: Gondolas, mega Zip-line, Trutti Bikes

Eastern Switzerland
-St. Moritz
Davos / Klosters
Arosa Click here for the Kosher Levins hotel

Southern Switzerland
-Zermatt - "Matterhorn"
-Saas-Fee Offers: Gondolas, Alpine Sliding, Mega Zip-line, Trotti Bikes, (Saas-Grund has Monster Trotteres) and on top of "Allalin" you can go Snow Tubing and Skiing even in the summer!
-Crans Montana You can email the Kosher hotel in Crans Montana Hotelmk@gmail.com  or call them at 0032485640498 or 003233011600


HalbTax Pass

A HalbTax pass (or Half Fare card) is a card designated for tourists and not for Swiss residents (officially...). The card gives you half price on all public transportation like buses, trains, trams, boats and also on "most" cable cars (attractions). There are basically 4 kinds.

1) An annual pass, the price is currently 175 francs. If i remember correctly it has a photo ID of the recipient, so double check before sharing it.
Click here for the annual pass

2) A 30 day pass, the price is currently 120 francs, it does not have a photo ID on it.
Click here or here for the 30 day pass

3) - Recommended for frequent traveling Swiss Travel Pass - you prepay a set amount per day and get unlimited for that day (plus "optional" for a fee, for 1 month including the days you chose, it is a HalbTax, even on the prepaid free days, it's only free for all transportation, on cable cars you only get half off). The price per day depends on how many days you prepay, for example if you prepay 8 days, the price per day will be about 53 francs, if you prepay 3 days the price per day will be about 73 francs. If you are 25 y/o or younger, you can get the Youth Pass which is cheaper - If you prepay 8 days  the price per day will be about 40 francs a day, if you prepay 3 days the price per day will be about 62 francs.
Click here (or here) for the prepaid pass

The card comes with a few days “you could chose your dates later”, officially when you want to use a certain day for the free day you should fill in on the pass that date, and when the first conductor comes he punches that day, but technically you can leave the date blank until the conductor comes, that way you have a chance if no conductor asks you for your card (happens quite often) you can save it for the next day :)

4) Swiss Transfer Ticket" This card costs 141 francs and is valid for 2 trips from and to the boarder or airport, for example you are traveling from the airport to Arosa and are not planning to go anywhere else or take any other transportation, with this card you will effectively pay 71 francs per way. This card is only valid for trips to and from the airport or boarder and no (long) stops allowed. Technically if you will travel one more day, the Swiss travel pass mentioned above will probably be cheaper.

Make sure to order your pass a few weeks before leaving, it takes about 1-3 weeks for the pass to arrive. But you can always buy it in the Airport, though you might have to wait in line and also if you want to buy the Youth pass (for 25 y/o or younger) they might ask you for proof...

There is also a family pass if you travel with a large family, I am not familiar with that.


Fast Baggage
There is a service via SBB, They deliver your luggage for you!! For example you are traveling from ZRH to Arosa, you don't want to be busy Shlepping around your luggage, You can check in your luggage in the airport and they (SBB) will deliver it to the train station in Arosa. This service is available "from and to" most train stations in Switzerland. You can ask about the Fast Baggage by any train station or read here or here

You can even buy a tag that you put on the luggage before checking in your luggage in any airport (i.e. JFK) and Rail Europe will take your luggage from the airplane in Switzerland and deliver it either to your hotel or to the train station in the city you're going to.  Read about Flight Luggage Here




PS. When doing research and getting to a website in German, just add /en (after .ch) to translate to English.
And Hey, Don't forget to write a TR ;)

Sample Itinerary for 9 hour stopover on Swiss flight from TLV to U.S. that lands at 810 and takes off around 5
Copied from @cholent:
Here it is: landed in zrh, crazy line for entering country but moved pretty quickly, about half an hour. Picked up sim in the airport. Rented car through Priceline from europecar. Drove to Titlis, stunning scenery along drive. Missed a turnoff because I couldn't get Waze to talk and I was trying to do some stuff online while we were driving, added half an hour to get there, but the stunning scenery made it worthwhile. Got there, parked, you pay at the entrance if you're going to park for more than an hour. Paid, took the cable car. Got off at there halfway station by mistake, gorgeous lake. Went back on and back up to the top. It was somewhat cloudy which was a pity. Suspension bridge was fun but no view because of the clouds. Took the ice flyer to the other peak, then went sledding down the hill, lots of fun. No tubing because there wasn't enough snow. We didn't have enough time for the ice cave because of the extra time driving there and we weren't sure where it was anyway. Made some new Israeli friends and took the cable car down with them. Got back to the airport, returning the car took less than five minutes, getting through the airport took a little longer so we didn't have time for showers at the lounge. It was amazing all around, I would definitely recommend

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #800 on: September 29, 2014, 08:09:43 AM »
Is there any kosher food near bahnhofstrasse?
Was never there. But Migros and Co'op offer a nice selection of kosher food. You just need to download the current kosher guide to see wich food you can buy from there.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #801 on: September 29, 2014, 08:33:15 AM »
Was never there. But Migros and Co'op offer a nice selection of kosher food. You just need to download the current kosher guide to see wich food you can buy from there.
+1. There's even a Migros in the train station that's the only one open on Sundays.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #802 on: November 03, 2014, 02:48:35 PM »
hi,

which shul is near the PH Zurich ?
which Kosher food places are nearby as well ?
Flying J with Swiss out of Zurich. is there a lounge available there ?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #803 on: November 03, 2014, 02:50:14 PM »
hi,

which shul is near the PH Zurich ?
which Kosher food places are nearby as well ?
Flying J with Swiss out of Zurich. is there a lounge available there ?
IRG is near the PHZ, about a10 minute walk.
There are restaurants, though a bit further of a walk.
Yes.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #804 on: November 03, 2014, 02:58:37 PM »

which Kosher food places are nearby as well ?

The olive garden restaurant (meat) is about a 8-10 min walk away (very easy directions as well) located in the JCC building (dont remember for sure if you need your passport to get in here......)

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #805 on: November 03, 2014, 03:02:05 PM »
The olive garden restaurant (meat) is about a 8-10 min walk away (very easy directions as well) located in the JCC building (dont remember for sure if you need your passport to get in here......)
Oh right. I forgot about that one. The JCC is really close as well. I was only their on shabbos and they didn't require a passport, although that could be because I went with people who live there and the guard recognized them.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #806 on: November 03, 2014, 03:17:45 PM »
thanks everyone !!

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #807 on: November 03, 2014, 03:20:14 PM »
I am going to be in Lausanne for two weeks (11/30-12/12) for work. What is my best bet for food?

I found this:
http://jewisheurope.org/pranzo.asp

Anyone know if this is any good? Or know of anything else?

TIA!

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #808 on: November 03, 2014, 04:34:27 PM »
Has anyone been to the Sheraton Davis?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #809 on: November 03, 2014, 06:09:42 PM »
I am going to be in Lausanne for two weeks (11/30-12/12) for work. What is my best bet for food?

I found this:
http://jewisheurope.org/pranzo.asp

Anyone know if this is any good? Or know of anything else?

TIA!
http://www.chabadluzern.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/296623/jewish/Kosher-Bread.htm

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #811 on: November 03, 2014, 06:19:51 PM »
My mistake, was reading too quick and I thought you wrote Lucerne.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #812 on: November 04, 2014, 02:19:45 PM »
What's the cheapest way to get from tlv to Switzerland using points or cash?

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #813 on: November 04, 2014, 04:20:24 PM »
What's the cheapest way to get from tlv to Switzerland using points or cash?
For cash try using skyscanner.net-it shows you the cheapest prices and it usually includes the low cost carriers. For points I believe UA is the best way to go (using Swiss, etc.)-but I am not 100% on that.

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #814 on: November 04, 2014, 04:21:57 PM »
For cash try using skyscanner.net-it shows you the cheapest prices and it usually includes the low cost carriers. For points I believe UA is the best way to go (using Swiss, etc.)-but I am not 100% on that.
I think krisflyer is better

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #815 on: November 26, 2014, 02:20:14 AM »
I'm Going to Switzerland from Monday to Thursday with a 10 month old baby what's the places I should go which would be baby friendly

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #816 on: November 26, 2014, 08:02:02 AM »
I'm Going to Switzerland from Monday to Thursday with a 10 month old baby what's the places I should go which would be baby friendly
Please be more specific, you have anything in mind? (Ski? Hike?)

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #817 on: November 26, 2014, 08:45:46 AM »
Please be more specific, you have anything in mind? (Ski? Hike?)
Sightseeing touring I'm not really going for skiing

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #818 on: November 26, 2014, 09:17:54 AM »
Sightseeing touring I'm not really going for skiing
I would advise you to take a baby carrier (on shoulder), that way you can do almost everything. So the question is a general one where should you go for sightseeing? you can read my TR hopefully it will give you some ideas http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=46155.0 just keep in mind you won't be able to hop around Switzerland in so little time, you should base your trip either in central Swistzerland like Luzern or Wengen (there is Minyan all year in Luzern). or in the east like Davos or Aroza

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Re: Switzerland Master Thread
« Reply #819 on: November 30, 2014, 12:55:10 AM »
I would advise you to take a baby carrier (on shoulder), that way you can do almost everything. So the question is a general one where should you go for sightseeing? you can read my TR hopefully it will give you some ideas http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=46155.0 just keep in mind you won't be able to hop around Switzerland in so little time, you should base your trip either in central Swistzerland like Luzern or Wengen (there is Minyan all year in Luzern). or in the east like Davos or Aroza
I'm arriving in Geneva
Which area should I stay?
Any places with minyan and kosher options in December?
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