Russian food yaaaa

So last night I had my first evening off on 2007. Wow. Marianna neatly arranged that we go to this new russian restaurant called Odessa. For those of you who are not Russian,

Odessa, Ukraine has always shown more color, spunk, and irreverence than other cities in the former Soviet Union. There's an excitement, an anything-is-possible feeling in the streets. The city has a reputation for its irreverent humor that is flaunt each April 1st with Odessa's most famous holiday, "humor day".

Odessa is referred to as the "Pearl of the Black Sea" is the 3rd largest city in Ukraine, the largest city along the Black Sea, and the most important city of Ukraine for trade. Odessa's mild climate, warm waters and sunlit beaches attract hundreds of thousands of people year around. Its shady lanes, beautiful lightly pastel buildings and cozy squares impart to the city a certain air of intimacy.


Anyhow, this restaurant was far from the Pearl of the Black Sea. We got there at 6 and were to sit down with 4 other couples. The thing about Russian people is time is sort of not relevant in most cases. Lets meet a 6 could mean lets meet at 6:15 or 6:30 - By the time everyone argued over what to order it was 6:45 and I'm starving. We were the only people with kids so I had the pleasure of chasing after Isaac and Sammy for the first hour.

The place was nice. They had a violinist that came in and played Russian and Jewish songs throughout dinner. The salads finally made to us at 7:30 and dinner at 8:15. My Beef Stroganoff was cold and bland and terrible,the restaurant was too cold then too hot and the waitresses were rude. All in all I took off with Isaac and went to winners to buy him and Sammy some books. $70 bucks down the drain. I would have prefered a night in and ordering Swiss Chalet.

I almost took off to my favorite all night restaurant Big Mouth Key at 11:30 last night but talked myself out of it, thinking a) I need to stop eating late and lose weight and b) Wouldn't it be nice to get more than 5 hours sleep.

If you want to try some great Russian food cheap and quick go to a place called Kabachok - Its located just east of Keele on Steeles. The corn of Petrolia and Steeles. Try the chicken shish kabob.