Blaue Ente - Dübendorf

Stay away if you have any food restrictions!! When we booked the table, we informed that I needed gluten-free food because I have celiac disease. Arrived, I communicated the fact very clearly to the gluten-free options. The waiter elencate her in Swiss German when I already asked if he could speak English without showing her on the menu. Finally we order, I double check with the waiter 2 times that my order is gluten-free and it confirms. I get my first course, a tartar, without bread, because even if they knew someone with celiac disease, this night did not even come 1 piece of GF bread. But whatever. The second course comes, I ordered the lamb, really pretty. I started eating and realized that the cover tasted delicious. Before I take another bite, I ask the waiter whether it was really gluten-free. He confirms. But I see that he's running into the kitchen, which disturbs me because I already had a full bite of my meal. He comes back, not even in a hurry and tells me that my meal has gluten, not only the bread on the top, but also the meat was prepared with gluten ingredients! At this point I panic, knowing that 1 whole bite of bread formation would cause me 2 weeks of rash, pain, cramps, etc. plus the immunological consequences that come with the triggering of an autoimmune disease. Because yes, Zöliakie is an autoimmune disease and the restaurant solved my disease by feeding me gluten! It's not a joke and I would expect people to work in hospitality, how dangerous it can be. If I were allergic to fish and the guy would confirm it wasn't fish sauce in my meal??? Anyway, they offered me another record in exchange, but at this point I knew I had a maximum of 20 minutes before I felt sick, so I refused the offer. I waited for my friends to finish their meal (it is sad because the quality of food is good. Even if the white wine was served without something to keep it cool, but whatever) and we asked for the bill. After they poisoned me, they told me I didn't have to pay the meal I couldn't eat. Thank you for not coming to GET POISONED when I told you in advance and checked twice and three times in the restaurant. In 6 people, we paid almost 500 CHF to poison a person. Great. If you have allergies or celiac disease, stay away from there before they try to kill someone else.

I love this restaurant, the service and the food were always impeccable. I have organized a team dinner here and again, it was faultless, in fact, my team are now all the big fans of this restaurant. I even bring my family here when they visit cannot praise the Blue Duck (Blue Duck) enough.

This restaurant id at one of the nicest locations in Zurich inside the quiet courtyard of a former factory building. The vegan selection is very nice and all courses are covered but this is definitely not a cheap place. Updated from previous review on 2022-03-11

The restaurant looks amazing, very tastefully done up, great atmosphere inside and on the terrace. Staff are friendly, and fairly knowledgeable about the items on the menu, although easily tripped up by any nonstandard questions, like weather the fish of the day is coming from a lake or a river, but this isn’t a deal breaker for me. When we arrived, I was so hoping to be able to give this great looking restaurant a very good review, but the food was a huge disappointment. Cumin seems to be the signature spice at the Blaue Ente. It’s baked in the loaf of bread you get when you sit down, it must be in many of their dishes as well, because even though we were sitting outside, while we were eating, at our table all I could smell was cumin in the air. As I don’t like the taste or smell of cumin this made it a very unpleasant evening for me. Having said that, I can’t blame the restaurant for my tastes, I just usually expect such excessive use of cumin in an Indian or Mexican restaurant, which I believe the Blaue Ente is neither. Both my starter and fish of the day were ok, but unimaginative and devoid of any flavour. I didn’t feel I was having a special meal in a special restaurant. Nobody at our table was overly impressed with the food, but maybe not quite as disappointed as I was.Needless to say, I won’t be back for the food. A real shame.

Good restaurant in a nice location. Food over the average and friendly staff make the Blaue Ent the right place where to spend a pleasant night with friends. Prices aligned with Zurich standard.. Will come back..