The lakeside restaurant at the harbour Close has a new owner. The young Zurich-based restaurateur Sami Khouri (30) is now responsible for the Local, the previously operated under the name of Quai 61. This, after the gastro-entrepreneurs operating in the Seelokal in the last two months as a Pop-up Restaurant. Khouri assumes this is the first Time a Restaurant fiix.
Known Khouri in the last few years was by the Snack Palestine barbecue at the long road and also by numerous Pop-up Restaurants in the city. As he is the only intake received, who applied via SMS, is Khouri is a kind of Underground Aura. “Pop-up is now all the rage,” he says, compared to Tagesanzeiger.ch/Newsnet. That is exactly the reason why he now wanted to try something different.
Under the Label of Mr. Samigo Sami Khouri opened a few years ago, in Zurich’s langstrasse district of the Palestine Grill. Image: Thomas Egli
the Restaurant at the lake of language , among other things, that it has no immediate neighbors, says Khouri. This will allow him to play until late, music. In addition to food Khouri offers in its Restaurants is always a kind of gastronomic experience. An elaborate decoration as well as Shows and DJs during the meal. This he wants to retain in his new Eatery with the name “Samigo Amusement”.
Freddy Burger pulled back
In the past years, the Quai 61 has been in the headlines. Since the nineties of Freddy Burger operated Locally, there were sometimes violent clashes among the guests. In the summer of 2018, a guest was seriously injured, what Burger retired from the business. Since the spring of 2013, he operated it together with the rat Pack (Mascotte, Calvados, Mata Hari). The latter gave their shares a year ago.
The history of the restaurant goes back further. In the nineties, the Restaurant is under the name of Sixty One some notoriety. Not least because the participants of the dome show “Züridate” celebrated there. Thereafter, the Local for a while, Aqua said.
the Restaurant was Built in the framework of the garden exhibition in the year 1959 on 64 piles were beaten into the lake. The location opened in the middle of the lake the guests a view of the Glarus Alps, or the Skyline of Zurich.
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Created: 11.01.2019, 11:58 PM
