Scandinavian

My boyfriend and I were meeting our architect Fred for a meeting to discuss the changes we are making to our flat and after the formal meeting we decided to get some food. We wanted to go to the Riding House Café first, but when we arrived there on Saturday at 11.30 all the tables had been taken and the waiting time was 1h, and as we did not want to wait, we continued walking on the same street hoping to find something equally good. A few meters further down from Riding House Café one of us spotted the Scandinavian Kitchen which looked nice and bright (in red) from the outside and as I had read a lot about it and as my Finnish friend Risto said it was one of his favourite places in London, I decided to get everyone in there and try it out.

This week was the week of the "E" restaurant that I had to choose (as a reminder every week my boyfriend and I chose a restaurant that serves cuisine based on a letter of the alphabet and we have already done "A" to "D" and now was the week of "E"). Before we went to Verru, my boyfriend told me he thought I would take him to an Eritrean or an Ethiopian restaurant but when I told him to meet me near Bond Street station he changed his mind to Egyptian. None of these guesses were right and instead I had stumbled upon what looked like to be an Estonian restaurant!!!

Last week was my boyfriends turn to choose a restaurant that serves cuisine that starts with the letter D. As there are not that many countries that start with the letter D, I had kind of guessed he would be taking me to a Danish restaurant, as I thought it would probably be impossible to find a Djibouti or a Dominican Republic restaurant even in London which has almost everything. And I was right; boyfriend had booked a Danish restaurant called Madsen, which is located by the South Kensington tube station. 

I remember going to Baltic restaurant a few years ago thinking they were going to be serving Baltic (as in Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian) food, but the name is slightly misleading as they seem to serve mainly Polish food with a slight hint of Scandinavian food, and also some Russian dishes (the link here seems to be countries around the Baltic sea apart from the Baltic states). The best thing about this place is the amazingly huge vodka selection especially from Poland, here you can get all brands and all flavour vodkas (I had a delicious strawberry vodka shot).