On November 21, the Hiltl shop, housing Switzerland’s very first vegetarian butcher’s shop, opened next door to the Haus Hiltl, the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Europe.
On sale are vegetarian and vegan delicatessen products, wines and cooking accessories. At the “butcher’s counter”, customers can purchase meat substitutes such as tofu, seitan, paneer or soy sausages, as well as Hiltl tartare, the traditional local specialty, Züri-Geschnetzeltes, and home-made cordon bleus. Even the wines are vegetarian or vegan, so do not contain fish bladders or bone gelatin.
