Blickfang, Best Places to Eat Mexican

Ellie caught up with designer Johann of Soeder at the Blickfang design fair after catching sight of his beautifully crafted clothes and household items. He told her about growing up in a Swedish zoo and first coming to Switzerland to work for the label Freitag, which informed his conscientious style of design. He further prides himself on only sourcing the highest quality materials that travel the least distance possible - but still passing along a very modest cost to his customers!

As part of our intermittent Best Places To Eat series, our food guru Sue Style told us about Mexican cuisine - a cuisine she knows very well, having lived in Mexico for many years. Head to La Piratita for Mexican specialities. Berenice Amstutz from Sonora in northern Mexico is the boss and the cook. This is the real McCoy, none of your crispy cardboard taco shells or chilli con carne, just the kind of Mexican dishes you’d find in a neighbourhood taqueria in Mexico’s Calzada de Tlalpan. There’s a good range of Mexican beers (Negra Modelo entre otras) and tequilas forever, plus killer margaritas.

Our music theme featured songs and bands with the two little letters "it" in them: we played Austra, Editors, Placebo, Mesh, Suede, Triggerfinger, Amadou & Mariam, The Whispers, First Aid Kit and Beach Fossils.

Swissgerman Words of the Week

Our Swissgerman today was the months July - December:

July = Juli

August = Auguscht

September = Septämber

October = Oktober

November = Novämber

December = Dezämber