Restaurant that stands apart.

Krishna's South Indian Veg Restaurant in Zurich offers a welcome respite for an Indian foodie who is looking for a different taste and food from India that the usual Indian dishes found in Indian restaurants across Switzerland. We find the same dishes duplicated in the menu cards of most of the Indian restaurants in Switzerland. Most notably these dishes are from a particular region in India. The image below would give an idea of the variety in food that can be found in India.

The dishes mentioned above in the map is but the tip of an iceberg of the food variety that can be found in India. That being the case, it is hard to understand the tendencies of these restaurants to stick to particular dishes. Even the restaurants like the Kerala food restaurant in Zurich and the Kanchi restaurant in Luzern that pose to represent the food culture of a particular region in India offers more items from other regions of India than it's own. 

Krishna's South Indian Veg Restaurant can be considered as a typical South Indian restaurant for two reasons. Vegetarian restaurants are common across the major cities and towns in the southern part of India and Krishna's represents this faction of restaurants. The other reason is that it offers most of the popular food  items from the Southern part of India. Although it offers a variety of Indian food new to Switzerland, it falls short in replicating the taste. To achieve an authentic taste or in other words to prepare tasty food, particular type of vessels and pans are to be used for particular types of dishes. A person who is familiar with these dishes would easily be able to figure out that this restaurant doesn't do this. At the same time, it should be kept in mind that authentic representation is not feasible because these things may not be easily imported and manageable here.

All said, the food is reasonably decent and most importantly the restaurant is open 7 days a week. This is welcome change to the existing Indian restaurant scenario in Switzerland.Opening hours are; Mon-Fri, 11:30 -14:00, 18:00- 22:00, Sat-Sun, 18:00- 22:00. It is probably viable for them to be open on Sundays because the restaurant is conveniently located in Oerlikon, which is one of the densely populated Indian quarters in Switzerland. Also the restaurant is crowded on Sunday evenings, given that it can seat around 60 people at a time. Unlimited buffet priced at 20 CHF per person could also be a reason for it to attract a lot of customers.