New opening / Zürich
Eat and greet
A protected Zürich building has a new lease of life as a Japanese restaurant. And Ooki Pavilion’s owners are helping to transform a quieter corner of the city with good food and great design.
After months of shuttered stillness, a friendly hum of activity is returning to a verdant corner in Zürich’s Sihlfield neighbourhood. Friends and family gather under the cheerful coloured awnings and simple string lights of the terrace at Ooki Pavillon, the second restaurant from Hiroyuki Oki and his son Ino – the pair behind the popular original Ooki izakaya (a Japanese pub) that opened in the Wiedikon quarter in 2016.
As for most in the hospitality trade, the past year has been incredibly tough for the Ooki team, who needed to juggle a set of…
