Sport Bar, exterior

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Sport Bar Cafeteria

Zürich


The name is slightly misleading – don’t expect to catch your favourite team on TV here. Instead, this casual, quiet cafe-bar mixes what are arguably the best gin and tonics in town. A coffee shop by day, its fizzy lemonades and cooling coconut waters are top of the league as well.


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