El Alebrije - Zuerich

Great atmosphere with a classy but welcoming setting. A very pleasant and multilingual service. The boss is a real Mexican who knows his cuisine! We loved our evening, I recommend it to everyone.

Complete disaster. Place is pleasent but had to wait over one hour and a half to get food. Menu is very small with just a few dishes, food is at best average, portions are small and it's very surprising that with such a small menu they still can't get the service or the food right. Staff is nice and it's not their fault the problem in the kitchen but the overall experience is not good.

It is the most sophisticated Mexican restaurant that I am aware of (I know a few in both, Zürich and some other European cities). We went through a series of courses (5) plus a dessert, a fixed menu. All went very well. The food was really carefully prepared, with professionalism and (I would say) passion. The taste of each serving was superb, but also the aesthetics of each dish. The local is at a new place for this restaurant, since a few weeks ago, and so it requires some more running to improve and mature, but I think it is only a matter of time. The cocktails are unique, creative, tasty, phantastic... Really. Apart from some time to refine their decoration and products, I would only think that they should only make a bit of an effort to drop their prices a substantial percentage... I found it somewhat expensive, even for Zürich...

High quality food, and the owner is a great person.

Positives: good cocktails, portions are decent sized Not so positives: rather slow service (which was for us ok since we had a lot to talk about), food is quite decent but not special