Tuesday’s dinner with Mike

The Polish food is delicious and very reasonably priced. I think I forgot to mention the Polish Zloty conversion rate to USD is approximately 5 to 1. 1 USD to 5 PLN. I hope I wrote this correctly. Anyway, it is very good—in my favor!

Polish national dishes are plentiful. Chefs use gifts from the Baltic Sea, vegetables, fruits, meat of wild and domestic animals, fish from lakes, rivers, mushrooms, berries, dairy products.

The Polish gastronomic traditions influenced by the people living in the country or in the neighborhood (Lithuanians, Magyars, Germans, Jews, Russians). French and Italian chefs who served at the court of the kings and the Polish nobility brought a peculiar sophistication to the recipes.

Tonight we dined at Chianti Bar and Grill. The decor was rustic and clean. The service was personal and observant. And the food was fantastic! The owner seemed to have high standards and was using only the finest and freshest ingredients to create the amazing dishes at this restaurant.

PS I will try to remember to get our servers to take a picture of Mike and me. I need some people in my pictures.

Tuna carpaccio with pesto was a light and elegant dish for serving as an appetizer. Loved it.
Mike had the tomato, mozzarella and basil bruschetta 
Top to bottom again. Mike had a favorite of mine, pasta dish combining shrimp, squid, clams and mussels with a simple sauce served over linguine with capers, kalamata olives and hand torn basil. For me, pumpkin risotto with Baltic shrimp–delicious. For me it is usually about risotto and salmon when available.
Tomorrow the Solidarity Museum. The European Solidarity Centre (Europejskie Centrum Solidarności) is a museum and library in Gdańsk, devoted to the history of Solidarity, the Polish trade union and civil resistance movement, and other opposition movements of Communist Eastern Europe.

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