One of our good intentions for the new year 2008 is: We smoke cigars! So we meet on January 30, to do this together. In the bar of the hotel Rothaus in Zurich, we toast to us with a Appenzeller beer. The house in District 4 recently found new owners who are also involved in the Riff-Raff cinema, and has been carefully renovated. The atmosphere is pleasant and we will use friendly.
to deploy to the food we St.Jakobsstrasse, has found out the Ristorante Cooperativo since earlier this year a new home. The restaurant was founded in 1905 by Italian immigrants with trade union and social democratic background.
the premises is decorated with original paintings by Mario Comensoli . Sigi is sitting in front of a group picture with matching cigar. Comensoli is from Lugano, studied at art school in Zurich and remains true to his death in 1993 of the city. His themes, he takes out of the social present.
The mixed salad with spicy sauce comes quickly on the table. The Bella Margarita is just how we like it: thin and crispy dough. The Sicilian Primitivo our tastes. We are thrilled!
Today we visit again the Hotel Greulich . How magical it draws us into the cozy fireplace room that is reserved specifically for cigar smokers. The fire has been lit a cozy fire. Our cigars are quickly unpacked and set on fire. Sigi (photo), a thick smoke from Nicaragua.
Pascal tried for the first time a San Cristobal del la Habano El Morro tscheiar and smokes a Bolivar Coronas Gigantes . The San Cristóbal is a perfect opportunity for cigar smokers. Your kindness Pascal unchallenged, however. He will choose the next time a more spicy Havana. I can recommend him my best Bolivar: a very spicy and full-bodied cigar with a regular fire, which has never disappointed me. On this photo we see tscheiar with fire, Bolivar and a Herman-Greulich-biography.
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we are also disappointed by the new bar staff. Unlike our first visit we get a perfect mojito. And because it tastes so good to us, we order a second. Before we leave the hotel Greulich, we visit the bar or the inconspicuous Videoinstellation of Pipilotti Rist: "The yellow fairy in the alley." But after two mojitos we tend to see a green fairy ...
