As you all know, my Zürich is sweet Zürich !  And from now on, I’ll be sharing this Zürich with you on a whole new level.   I’ll let my sweet tooth guide you on a tour around the charming old town to discover some of the city’s most irresistible sweets.  An original, fun and delicious way to visit Switzerland’s most happening city, and learn that it’s not only milk chocolate in the Alps.

Read on below – in this 200th post of MyKugelhopf ! – about the launch of … Sweet Zürich !  (information will always be available by clicking “Kugel-tours” above, beneath the masthead)

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It’s not that I’ve been keeping it a secret from you.  I simply never mentioned one of my all-time favorite restaurants in Zürich.  It’s where I have a monthly lunch date with a friend.  It’s where my mom asks to go for lunch as soon as she arrives at the airport here.  It’s where I take friends who are visiting, as well as my carnivorous husband.  It’s Hiltl, Europe’s oldest vegetarian restaurant, since 1898.

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Time for a chocolate roundup ! Before 2011 sees a whole new series of sweet adventures, a quick look back to recent tastes from the infamous chocolate stash…

Let’s begin with my very favorite bar tasted, one I kept hidden since returning home from the Salon du Chocolat in Paris.  Jean-Charles Rochoux‘s packaging is as chic as it gets, a shiny cardboard exterior with an embossed alligator pattern – and a bar just as attractive inside.  Below is his 70% dark chocolate bar with caramelized pistachios; the nuts add an extra touch of sweetness and just the right amount of crunch.  Remarkably, every one of the 30 small squares had a perfect, whole green pistachio.  And one by one, each square (not so slowly) disappeared.  His iconic 70% dark chocolate bar filled with semi-liquid caramel is still safely hidden, but we’ll see how long that lasts…

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I hope 2011 has gotten off to a sweet start for everyone! It is certain to be full of new discoveries and adventures for me, with travels near and far.  We’ll be home in Zürich, bouncing around Switzerland and going beyond the borders to wherever the train may take us.  Perhaps heading to more exotic destinations too.  And let’s not forget all the adventures in the kitchen. Many food bloggers have been compiling their “best of” lists and sharing their favorite travel and food experiences of 2010, which naturally got me thinking too. It’s fun to browse through photos of past trips and recall memorable tastes that demand to be recreated.

What are your travel and food highlights from the past year? Here are some of mine…

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