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| - If your a foodie this place is going to disappoint you.
On the surface everything appears OK ... interesting, clean & spartan. Friday night, nobody meets you at the door, you awkwardly wait for a table in a half full restaurant with no bus boys or hostess. The bar area is strangely uninviting ... nobody sits there. Wander over to the dessert chiller, nothing special, should have left right then and there. The owner/bartender finally seats us, we order a bottle of wine, decent service. A nice selection of wine & unique European beers. The menu looks interesting, Scandinavian, Polish, German.
The disaster starts when the food arrives. Crab cake, tiny boring .. canned. Schnitzel pounded to thin with horrible gravy. The sides all canned food with salads made from this same canned food. Awkward potato ensembles, bland dumplings & sauerkraut. If you want German food head over to Zur Kate, this place is a disaster.
On the Polish front the Kielbasa was perhaps the highlight, perhaps locally made ... perhaps not! Cabbage roll & Pierogies no doubt previously frozen small & bland, sauce was OK nothing special. Still hungry I would have dipped my foot into Scandinavian waters but I suspect it's only ankle deep. I grew up in Wisconsin with these same ethnic foods, if this is what Canadian Food is all about, I'll pass!
I don't know what's up with this area of the East Valley ... India Oven, Angry Crab Shack, Golden Gate, & now the Beaver Choice. All the worst examples of their ethnic specialties ... yet highly rated on Yelp.
The only explanation .... It's A Dead Zone.
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