Paul M. Cook wrote:

> "Omelet" > wrote in message
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>> Cuban. Hands down. At a rather fancy place in Miami Florida.
>> It was compliments of Coulter Electronics when I was there for a
>> training seminar. It got bad reviews by our entire class so they
>> decided to not use that place any more.
>>
>> The service was fantastic but the food was awful...
>
>
> Give another place a try. Cuban food is very good, especially if you
> like pork and seafood.
>
> As far as cuisines, hmmm ... Russian food never did anything for me.
> We had a Russian cafe at one time and the food was very bland.


Despite a large Russian population, not much in the way of Russian food here
in Chicawgo, outside of a couple of delicatessens...

Russians simply never developed a restaurant "culture". Restaurants
traditionally were very expensive places where one went to drink oneself
silly, dance, and have some food. More along the lines of a nightclub...

During Soviet times the best restaurants in Moscow, etc. were Central Asian
ethnic places, e.g. Georgian, Uzbeki, etc...

With the advent of capitalism in the former USSR that's changed, at least in
the bigger cities. Plenty of eateries of all descriptions, and sushi is now
very popular in Moscow...


> Oddly, Hungarian food was very good. No influence between those
> national cuisines that I could tell even though they are ion the same
> part of the world.


Hungarian food is spicier, lots of influence from the Balkans...not much
"cross - pollination" with anything Russian. Polish and Czech food is
somewhat closer to Russian, e.g., use of sour cream, root veg (BEETS), dill,
cabbage, etc...


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Best
Greg