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| - I first went to Country Style with my dad sometime in the early 1970s. The food has hardly changed, although the menu has been streamlined - try the schnitzels, the stews, the soups (the chicken soup is the ultimate comfort food), and the dumplings (nokedli or spaetzli), and if you can manage it, the palacinta (similar to a sweet crepe), the dobos (a torte made of alternating thin layers of cake and buttercream), the rétes (strudel), or the kr?mes (cream and pastry cream between layers of millefeuille). If you're adventurous about booze, try Unicum/Zwack (an herbal, slightly bitter, very strong digetif), or one of the pear pálinkas (distilled liquor) or Csaszarkorte (incredibly sweet pear liqueur), which you can't usually get at the LCBO.
The portions are now only large rather than truly impossible, but everything tastes just the same. The mid-70s decor has been (thank god) updated, and the place has a clean, simple hominess to it.
(So long ago ... after lunch at Country Style me & dad went over to Honest Eds and bought a set of miniature screwdrivers, multicoloured, jewel-like, in a little plastic box, which for some reason struck me as magical. Ed's is gone now, but CS lives on.).
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