Here, it’s like everywhere else, we start bringing you the menu ; fortunately for the moment, in english or in russian, although I start to know some culinary notions...

Then, the cutlery is nicely presented, wraped in a serviette, and when you order soup and you’re lucky, we bring you a tiny breadbasket. But it’s after that matters complicate. Quite comfortably settled in pleasant surroundings and without smockers (it’s forbidden, even in pubs, cafes and others bars…), a well chilled Švyturys, you’d now rather to be patient. Although the Švyturys is one of the best world’s beer, it’s not sufficient so as to trick hunger. So the tiny breadbasket is already empty when the dishes come.

At last there is an occasion to change one’s mind in comparison with the weather drinking one’s šaltibarščiai, a summer cold beet soup served with roasted potatoes. And why not taking a glass of gira, the Lithuanian version of kvass...

But let’s be serious! What do you think about cepelinai (sg. cepelinas), huge grated and/or mashed potato (basic food here) balls containing meat or mushrooms:

Or when we are less hungry, we can also eat koldunai, a kind of local raviolis which can either be fried and crunchy (on the picture) or coocked:

On the other hand, you’d rather to forget cheese or anything which could be similar, that simply doesn’t exist. The dessert menu is also nothing to make you jumping for joy, but after what we have devoured, a good black coffee is more than enough!

Ah, I almost forgot! If we have had to wait half an hour to be served, they used to clear the table away so fast that one time one friend of mine keep stayed with his fork but having no more plate to put on. This had been removed while he was finishing his last mouthful…

See you soon for my next culinary discoveries, or maybe on a page about Lithuanian beverages. The challenge is also to get the best recipies I could of what I just have presented to you. To be continued…

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