Gdańsk is a very nice city, absolutely gorgeous. For the most part, the food has been great as well(more on that later).
I've hit a couple of local places, first night was a perogie specialty place, had a nice bowl of borscht with dumplings in it and a big plate of perogies that were stuff with wild game meat. All in all, very tasty.
The next night found me at "Spiritus Sanctus winiarina" a wine bar that specialised in wines and local deli meats and cheeses. They also had regular menu items for dinner, but I opted for a custom plate of various local cheeses(an aged goat, parmesan, etc) paired with some local deli meats and a basket of amazing breads. It was paired with a very flavourful white wine from Slovenia, I think I need to go and get a bottle to bring back. :) So far, the best meal yet.
Really, I wasn't grumpy. It just looked that way. I think I got distracted by something outside just as the shutter went off.
Now for the bad food part... I worked quite late last night and didn't want to go far to find dinner, so I thought I'd try the hotel restaurant. Sigh, cheesy American chain restaurant, a TGI Fridays. What a tired concept those theme restaurants are, from TGI, the Red Robins, etc. All the dusty crap on the walls, the faux americana, the bad choice of american beers(in europe and they're serving up Budweiser?!?!?! BAH I say! I ordered a 'cajun chicken sandwich' that was labeled as being quite spicy. This is how I imagine it was prepared:
- order comes into kitchen, cook takes the ticket and calls ala Starbucks to colleague across the room "one spicy chicken sandwich"
- colleague repeats order and then places chicken on prep table as far across the room as possible.
- cook then grabs 1 gram of cajun spice in a spoon and flicks it across the room, whatever makes it there by drifting stays on the chicken and is then cooked and served.
So there you have it.... lesson learned stay away from chain restaurants, they do nothing well.
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