Early last week I ate a wonderful dinner of chicken curry
with my friend Allison. We went to a place downtown, which is essentially a
food court, but a thousand times better. You can choose from Persian, Indian,
Arabic, Brazilian, French, “American”, and Bavarian dishes, and probably a lot
more that I’m forgetting! Allison and I both opted to have the chicken curry
dish. It was a plate piled with fresh rice, huge chunks of chicken in curry
sauce, lettuce, a tomato slice, and a chip (yes, just one), all for just 7
Euros. It was perfectly filling and magically delicious, just like lucky
charms!
By the way, this entire entry is going to be about food.
Just a heads up!
On Sunday morning, Allison, Michael, Marisa and I met around
9:30 in the morning and grabbed some coffee and something small for breakfast,
then hopped on the trap towards downtown. We got off at the same stop where the
restaurant that we had the fancy reception party a short while ago is. That
restaurant is built onto/into a mountain and that’s the mountain we needed to
hike up. The goal was to find another restaurant (whose name eludes me at the
moment) located about 4 kilometers up the hiking path that has an absolutely
wonderful Sunday brunch. There were a lot of signs along the path so it was
easy to get there and the walk went pretty quickly because I was with good people
and there was no lack of conversation!
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| Delicious brunch spread |
Once we made it to the restaurant one of the waitresses took our drink orders (the buffet came with one
cold drink like orange juice and one hot drink) and told us to grab
a plate and head on through the buffet. The spread was incredible: regular croissants, croissants filled with chocolate, an assortment of breads, three
different kinds of jams/spreads, little packets of Nutella (they love Nutella here!), fresh fruit salad,
fresh sliced tomato and chunks of mozzarella, strawberry and plain yogurt,
bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, salmon, what I believe was thinly sliced
turkey, granola and muesli. The food was delicious and it was the perfect
reward for our morning hike, despite a freak incident involving a fork, flying
cheese, and an unfortunately placed cup of coffee.
We should make everyone back in America hike before they
eat. They’ll enjoy the food so much more!
Until next time!
Yummmmm!! Are those calories I see waving to me from that plate? I was just on my way downstairs to scavage thru the refrig for some breakfast. Guess I'll just try to fill up on some of this since it looks like more than you can eat. Thank!. Are the pants getting too tight yet? : )
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