Where Is The Old World Food?
Seattle is a pretty good place to be if you're into food. Probably way better than average, even, for a city our size. There are tons of hip-ish new restaurants with creative menus constructed from organic ingrediants, there are a gazillion Asian and Asian-influenced places that are fantastic and the seafood is incredible almost everywhere. However, when it comes to food that Seattlest might label "Old World," there is nothing.
Granted, this comes from a mind that was raised on Bavarian, Polish, Ukranian, Hungarian, and Bohemian foodstuffs of Chicagolandia, Illinois, where everything from the cutlets to the lake perch are fried to hell and smothered in dumplings and vinegar-cabbage, but what gives? Ok, even allowing for the fact that Central Europeans settled Chicago and Seattle is more of a Northern European kind of town, we would still expect there to be some grand old Scandinavian restaurant in an old-ass room somewhere with a menu that hasn't changed since The War and table service by little old ladies, possibly in period costume. To Seattlest's knowledge, however, no such place exists. Not only is there not a classy old Scandinavian restaurant anywhere in Seattle, there isn't even a divey old Scandinavian restaurant in Seattle, or if there is it's so far out of our collective conciousness as to be invisible.
We hear there's a decent Scandinavian breakfast to be had at the Swedish Cultural Center on Dexter on Sunday mornings. There are a couple of German bars that focus more on the beer than the food. There's a few Russian piroshky places, there's the People's Pub, hell, we'll even count the restaurant that appears at the Polish Home Association once a week. Is that all we got? Seriously?
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