I’ve tried turkey at last!
My former colleagues took me to this restaurant that is said to be one of the best in Lexington one Friday night. We were discussing where to have dinner for a sort of farewell for me, and I told them I wanted to try something new. They brought me to Marikka’s, a German restaurant that serves authentic German cuisine.
It was the perfect choice, first, because I hadn’t eaten there. I eat out a lot whenever I am in Lexington (thanks to Jen who started that tradition for me) but I hadn’t gone there before. I also hadn’t tried any German food other than pretzels, which is pathetic because I realize now that German food is so good.
When we got to Marikka’s, I couldn’t read the food in the menu because they were all written in longish German names that were hard to pronounce, but I got some help from a colleague who had eaten there a lot of times. This was what I got:
That’s breaded turkey on my plate, plus mashed potatoes and a vegetable I forgot the name of grüne bohnen, or green vegetables. It was my first time to try turkey, and I loved it! It tasted like chicken, actually, but it’s a lot better.
Because I was so curious about German palate, my colleagues allowed me to try the food on their plates. The red thing you see above is rotkraut or sour red cabbage (yes, red cabbage!). It looks like corned beef, no?
