"Foodie" is the worst word in the world, right?

Man I can wait for my next chance to eat rouladen. I can only really get it in restaurants, for about the same price as some of are paying for a bowl of soup (lol).

My gf sometimes makes veal schnitzel with red cabbage and roasted garlic red potatoes. DAMN MAN

Seattle is also famous for Ivar's clam chowder, which you can buy from the restaurant, or in a plastic bag of concentrate from the stores, OR, and this is the best part, from the snack bar on the ferries!

You can have a soup and a beer on the boat! Yeaaah, that's living.

Yeaaaaah.

(oh btw it's real good sorry)

Nineteen dollars for a bowl of soup is outrageous. I don't care what's in there.

I would kill every last one of you for a bowl of soup from the coast right now.

Hey... I've had great chowder that has spanned the range from $6 - $30 for a bowl and don't have any regrets. Of course, a rather pretentious seafood restaurant down the street from my office tried to charge me $19 for a take out order of the same.

My answer was no (especially when they can't even cook shrimp right).

$19 for a fucking bowl of soup? That's outrageous !

[quote="CO"]Flack, please do give a quick review of each of those places if you don't mind.[/quote]

[quote="Flack"]Teriyaki Bowl[/quote]
I guess this is a locally owned chain? Completely generic decor, but the food was pretty good. I had a bowl of miso soup for $1.99 and 8 pieces of Alaskan salmon sushi for $8.99. One of my co-workers had a giant bowl of teriyaki chicken and the other had a bento box and they both said they were good.

[quote="Flack"]Berliner Pub
http://www.berlinerpub.com/[/quote]
Definitely a pub atmosphere as I couldn't hear myself think and it's German-style seating, meaning we shared a big bench/table with another group. I'm no expert on German beers but what I had was good. German plates of schnitzel were ~$15. Food quality was excellent if you like German food.

[quote="Flack"]WildFin American Grill
http://www.wildfinamericangrill.com/[/quote]
This is in "The Landing" part of Renton. I had "Northwestern Jambalaya" which was jambalaya with some seafood in it too (I forget what). Everything was good, but if I lived in Renton/Seattle I'm sure I would never go back. Everything was okay but not memorable.

[quote="Flack"]Azteca
http://www.aztecamex.com/[/quote]
I thought this place was pretty good. Here in Oklahoma places like this are a dime a dozen. There are literally three restaurants just like this next door to one another a mile from my house. One of the cheaper meals we had during the week.

[quote="Flack"]Melrose Grill
http://www.melrosegrill.com/[/quote]
Everybody we talked to recommended this place. Food was good but expensive. My friend had the 1lb of King Crab special for $36. I had salmon, rice and mixed vegetables for $20. Seating was very limited and it was so dark inside we had to use the lights on our phones to read the bill. Nice place for a date night maybe?

[quote="Flack"]Duke's Chowder House
http://www.dukeschowderhouse.com/[/quote]
Here's what I had:

[i]“Extra Crabby” Dungeness Crab & Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Chowder
Sweet corn and Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey with an extra heaping of Dungeness Crab on top! Bowl $18.90[/i]

I don't know shit about chowder (not a big seller here in Oklahoma) but damn I thought it was good. They have seating on the roof and the view of the water during the summer must be amazing. My only complaint about the chowder was after dropping $20 on a bowl of chowder and another $15 or so on a couple of drinks, I left hungry. My friend got the fish and chips and raved about them.

[quote="Flack"]Brave Horse Tavern
http://bravehorsetavern.com/[/quote]
Perhaps "pub" is Latin for "loud"? With a table of six people, nobody could hear anybody talking except the person directly next to them. It's open seating but they do take reservations. (Our table of six had an 18% gratuity slapped on to our bill.) Menu was pretty limited -- it's the kind of place that has three sandwiches, three dinner plates, etc, so not a lot of choices. They did have a large selection of custom pretzels (the "bacon, peanut butter pretzel" looked interesting). Large selection of beers and mixed drinks.

Will do! We had lunch at a generic Japanese hole in the wall called the Teriyaki Bowl. It was okay.

To bring things full circle, I finally had some German food. We ate dinner at the Berlinger on Main street in Renton. They had 30 German import beers to choose from. I had half a schnitzel and chicken curry.

http://www.berlinerpub.com/

Flack, please do give a quick review of each of those places if you don't mind. I've lived in Seattle for almost 5 years now and haven't gone to any of those so I'd love to hear what you thought. The closest I've come to one is my wife and I walked in and out of the Azteca in Ballard because she thought it smelled.

In general, I find Seattle area restaurants to be overpriced and disappointing. Soups in particular are expensive and chowders can be outrageous. There's a chowder place in Alki that will charge $9 for a "bowl" of clam chowder that is really a cup.

Did you leave Seattle yet? If you ever want a great fish and chips, try the Lockstop Cafe in Ballard or Lowells Cafe in the Pike Place Market comes in second. The Whisky Bar in Belltown is good for what it's named for though I'm not sure about their food.

I didn't make it to the German place.

We did breakfast every morning at the hotel and lunch every day at the office. For dinner, so far, we have visited the following places:

WildFin American Grill
http://www.wildfinamericangrill.com/

Azteca
http://www.aztecamex.com/

Melrose Grill
http://www.melrosegrill.com/

Duke's Chowder House
http://www.dukeschowderhouse.com/

Brave Horse Tavern
http://bravehorsetavern.com/

Jägerschnitzel is und del bwayno!

mit der spaetzle und red cabbage


THE
LITRE OF BIER
AARDVARK

We are doing dinner tonight at Szmania's in Seattle. I'll let you know how it was. BAKLAVA!

They do love their mushrooms. If you find anything in there involving pan-fried mushrooms, try that. That shit was tasty.

Their fast food is pretty good too. Though not German in itself, shashlik made the German way (with bacon, onion and paprika) was my favorite. German hamburgers are pretty interesting too, with tons of yellow remoulade sauce on them, dried onions and no ketchup at all.

[quote="pinback"]German food: [i]It's what's for dinner, if you know what's good for you![/i][/quote]

Translation: [i]Ve haff vays ov makink you eeht![/i]

EDIT [pinback]: I am fixing all your posts where you fuck up the quote tags. I don't care anymore.

I bought a German cookbook a few years ago but never made anything from it. The last two nights I've made two different recipes from it.

Can-- can I switch my favorite food to being "German"? Even if I'm half Jewish? I mean, we all ended up eating pretty much the same stuff there after a while, when food was available.

It is not a cuisine I would call "healthy". It's more a cuisine I call "put a bunch of flour and butter and meat into a skillet until you are left with Cooked Meat In Gravy". But it's a rarity that I find a cookbook that nails the first two things I try out of it, followed precisely.

Meal One was: Chicken livers! This consisted of onions, chicken livers and mushrooms in a sherry beef gravy! Holy effing Christ, maybe one of the best recipes of all time.

Meal Two was: Baked chicken and mushrooms! This consisted of chicken breasts and mushrooms, baked and then slathered in a white wine gravy! With flour and butter! And butter!

I see what they're doing there. And it's working.

And if you get sick of those recipes, you can always just default to bratwursts, red cabbage and beer, which is already one of the world's great meals.

German food: [i]It's what's for dinner, if you know what's good for you![/i]

BTW I also used to have Polish, French and Austrian cookbooks in my collection on the same shelf but now I can't find them anymore. ????