ETH food market — Restaurant in Zurich

Todays menu for 6.20 (more expensive than the 5.40 or even 5 menu from UZH) had 25 pieces of pasta. If you pay 1 franc extra you get 7-9 (!!!!!!) extra pieces of pasta (The fact that I was able to count them should be a dead givaway). The mensa gets subsidies for each of the menus sold and obviously has not interest in actually feeding you. They try to make the people go to one of the more expensive options where I assume their profit margins are larger. The polymensa in the Zentrum (where it actually has some sort of competition) at least lets you ask for a bigger portion for free and you can go and get a refill. Avoid if possible, maybe something changes if they get less customers.

One star cause they have...

Hit or miss and out of around 10 menues per day, often not even ONE gluten free. Also the cashiers told me once a sauce was gluten free and it was not - cheers to the dangerous cramps the whole afternoon.

Best pick for gluten free people is the choose5 from the green counter. It is just salads, but yet delicious. Also way more expensive than a green menu.

Biggest problem imo: concept with this many people. It just doesn’t work out. You wait to pick up your food, battle fellow students and lecturers for a table, and the wait AGAIN to give BACK THE CUTLERY and plates.

Once again: ETH doesn’t care about students time, not in the canteen nor in the case of...

Three different options, Italian corner, vegetarian corner or grill. In the Italian corner you can choose between pasta and Pizza and they often have two options, a cheap one ( for ex. margarita) or a more elaborated one( Pizza Calzone). The vegetarian corner consists of a salad bar, but the salads change from day to day and you can either pick three salads or five salads. The quality of the vegetarian corner is often Ok, but sometimes you get some unpleasant surprises. The grill is often a safe bet, with the asian option that is a little bit more lucrative but as well generous in the...