The Daily Bite: Berliner, Starbucks & Ivar's

Now that Matt and I are living in Seattle, a city known for fine cuisine, I thought I would review some of the restaurants we have been to.  


For starters, a couple of days after getting here Matt and I ate Doner Kebabs at the Berliner.  Matt served an LDS mission in Switzerland and lived in Vienna Austria for three months.  He had Kebabs all the time and I really wanted to try one since it was one of Matt's favorites.  We both got the Lamb Berliner Kabab on Fladenbrot (a special type of bread that was invented in Germany by Turks).  It was delicious.  It had this homemade garlic yogurt sauce that made it taste amazing.  I would definitely reccommend it, but not to those with weak stomachs, because it is spiced pretty heavily.  


Also this week, Matt and I had to run an errand at the Apple Store, which is in University Village, right by the University of Washington.  It is a really classy open air mall that reminded me of the Riverwoods Mall in Provo.  While we were waiting our appointment at the Genius Bar, we stopped into the nearest Starbucks (I'm pretty sure there were three in that mall alone).  My friend Candis told me about their seasonal gingerbread hot chocolate, and being a hot chocolate connoisseur, naturally I wanted to try some.  Matt and I both had one, and while we liked it, we didn't love it and I probably won't get it again.  Don't get me wrong, it was good, it just wasn't as good as I imagined it would be.  To be fair though, I love hot chocolate and my favorite cookies are gingerbread, so I hold both those culinary items to a high standard and I expected a lot from the combination of the two.  


Last on the list is another Seattle classic, Ivar's.  Matt and I walked over to Pike Place Market and then down to the docks.  Right before we headed back home we stopped at Ivar's for some fish and chips.  Last year when Matt lived in Seattle for three months during an internship, he loved getting the scallops from Ivar's.  When I came to visit I tried some too and loved them.  So this time we thought we would branch out and try something a little different.  Matt had fried oysters and I had fried salmon.  We didn't really like the oysters.  They tasted really fishy and actually made Matt a little sick.  However, the salmon was tasty.  If we went there again though, we would probably stick to the scallops.  But if you do go, make sure to get the fries too.  Their fries are exceptionally good.  In fact, the fries actually remind me of ones my siblings and I used to eat when we would go skiing at Powder Mountain, a ski resort in Utah.  We have raved about those fries for years.  They probably tasted better to us because we were happy, but cold and tired after a long day skiing and the fries would warm us up.  And they came with really good fry sauce.  We were all really disappointed when they changed to different fries. 

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