American Food, Zürich style

A quick one for today: I've been looking into what passes for American food in Zürich. Short answer: fried appetizers and burgers.

Here are the menus for a few places that sell American style food in Zürich:

Fork and Bottle sells a wide selection of beer, along with burgers, ribs, and salads. Like one of the good the microbrew / gastropub places that are in almost every city in the US. We visit them regularly.
Brisket Southern BBQ and Bar is a rib joint. Their ribs are a blend of US styles. They're pretty good, but they're not quite as good as the ribs from that run-down shack outside of town. You know the one I mean. (For my non-US friends: I'm mocking rib snobs. No matter how good the ribs, they've always had better. The place with the best ribs in the entire world is always, amazingly enough, just outside of the town where they live or grew up.)
Papa Joe's has recreated the "fried food and lots of crap on the walls" restaurant concept popularized by Friday's, Tuesday's, Chili's, et cetera. This stuff wasn't really my favorite in the US, so I haven't gotten around to visiting the local version.
Sam's Pizza Land has recreated the American kids' food menu, right down excessive, nearly identical choices and arbitrary names for the foods that have nothing to do with their namesakes (Mount Rushmore kebabs, anyone?). I'm very amused by the concept, and I'm going to have to visit someday, but I haven't been there yet.

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