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Skriven 2011-08-04 10:37:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: june trip 701
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Olevi is a very small restaurant, with perhaps 20 seats.
On this occasion, about 10 were taken by a revolving-door
group of young adults celebrating a wedding or something -
they came and went ad lib and seemed to know the staff.
The men were smartish casual, the women dressed to the
hilt. I don't know if they were dining or just drinking.

I'd been intrigued by the place when we went on our
reconnaissance the previous evening, when we ended up at
the unfortunate pig restaurant; it had been my first
choice then too, but I figured we had to do the pork
thing at least once (I'd first bonded with Lilli over the
Schachtplatte in Nuremberg). Anyhow, we entered (steep
steps down to the cellar) to mild consternation - but
the waitress led us to the only table that wasn't in
the party area - overlooked by ancient weaponry,
instruments of torture, and such knickknacks - and
promptly forgot us.

Eventually we ordered, and after long communing with
Mr. A. Le Coq and some somewhat acceptable red wine,
we saw some food. We also saw other walk-ins being shooed
away by the help, so we counted ourselves lucky.

My pelmeni starter was a sizable serving and truly
excellent, some of the best I've had; after this, an
"Estonian bone chop" in mushroom cream was plenty - a
modest-size thinnish pork chop in a quite tasty sauce,
albeit one I could make just as well and in fact have done.

Lilli was intrigued by the sound of filet with tomato dill
gravy; it was filet with tomato dill gravy, palatable but
certainly not special.

A pleasant and amusing meal.

It still being light of course, we worked off dinner with
more strolling around town, this time including some of
the smaller alleys off the big(ger) streets.

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