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Old Crow
A rare-spirits room in the old town with more than 1,700 bottles behind it and no reservations at the door.
Old Crow is a collector’s bar: the list is built on a spirits library of over 1,700 bottles, and the cocktails are poured from it rather than around it. It is the room to send someone who wants to taste something they cannot get at home.
It sits on a side lane off the Limmatquai, a couple of minutes’ walk from Bar am Wasser and the Widder — the two make an easy pair for one evening.
What to order
Ask what came off the shelf this week — the rare spirits list is the reason to come, with the classics poured alongside it.
- Address
- Schwanengasse 4, 8001 Zürich
- Hours
- Tue – Sat17:00 – 00:30
- Sun – MonClosed
- Booking
- No reservations
- Doors
- From 17:00, midweek evenings only
Know before you go
Hours are quoted from each venue’s own published schedule. Swiss bars revise them seasonally and close for holidays at short notice — check the bar’s own site before you set out. Drink responsibly — you are working a bar the next morning, and so is everyone you are drinking with.