Fortunately Norwegian food has no hype beyond norway (and maybe some places in spain with norwegians). The closest would be an IKEA-reastaurant (that serves some stuff that is to be “swedish food”).. though rather prefer not going to IKEA while visiting other countries.
Think you’ll hardly find restaurants with norwegian food even here in norway.. If it’s norwegian food it’s mostly truck-stops along the highways.. or some super expensive/fancy fish-restaurants in the cities… probably 50-100 indian, italian,chinese etc-themed restaurant for each norwegian..
Though surely there are a lot of norwegian food “hidden in foreign cuisine”.. The tons of fish exported from norway turns into fish n chips, sushi, bacalao or whatever in other countries.. but then as japense, chinese, english, portugese or whatever food..
I’m Irish, so…no. But then I won’t go to an Italian in Germany or a Chinese in Spain either for example unless I had a good reason to. I prefer to take the opportunity to try the local cuisine as much as possible.
No, because they rarely, if ever, exist.
I do try to visit McDonald’s in every country I go to though, just to see what’s the same and what’s different
I’d like to see the place that has a “Danish restaurant”…
I mean I’m sure there’s bound to exist at least a few somewhere, it’s just that I’ve never seen any anywhere outside of the country. Would I go? Maybe once for curiositys sake, to see if they get things right or not.
There are few Spanish restaurants abroad, and I won’t go even if they were. The only option would it be maybe if I emigrate for long time and couldn’t go home or something like that. Or for some kind of cultural event.
Not really possible. Idk if you can find Lithuanian restaurants anywhere outside of Lithuania or heavy Lithuanian areas of the UK/Ireland. Maybe in Sweden or Germany too. But they’re all too close to home anyway.
Personally I always vacation in (or near) an IKEA. That way I know there will be meatballs available. Sadly, I need to pack my own Jansons, sill and surstrƶmming, but thatās fine.
No and it will be really hard to find one. I know there are few in major european cities (saw one in Dublin) but I wouldn’t go there. I don’t even eat our cuisine at home.
Never when it comes to Italian food but yes when it comes to Chinese food, mainly because I can’t find it where I live now and haven’t been able to go back to Hong Kong for the past 6 years.
Edit: This is for short term visits. If I have to live in a country, of course I’ll go to Italian restaurants.
I’ve been to British pubs, but generally only so that someone I’m with can watch a football match on TV. I guess things like fish and chip shops happen elsewhere, but they’re not like the UK ones and best avoided.
I’m italian, if I travel as a tourist or for work abroad, I always like to try the local cuisine. Even if sometimes it is not of my taste, I like to try new things. It happened that I ate italian food abroad (once in Paris for a business trip, at an organized dinner we had pizza. It was good, I didn’t complain) but if I can choose, I prefer not to.
That said, I live aborad and I learned which italian restaurants in my city are good and I go there when I want a good pizza.
I live in the Netherlands and I have never seen a Salvadoran restaurant here or anywhere in Europe. Would go out of homesickness bc I havent been in so long, but it would most likely be quite bad.
Normally i only eat local there, thats why im there
But
Since hungarian cuisine is not very famous, id try, mostly because most of the time i only see abnominations, so just out of curiousity id try, because they are so rare
The chances of finding a Scottish cuisine restaurant abroad are tiny, so if I saw one I might just go out of curiosity. There are sometimes “British Pubs” in other places, which I generally avoid like the plague (especially as they tend to be in hellholes that attract the worst sort of Brit abroad).
Spanish restaurants now in contrast are more common elsewhere, and sometimes even rather good, but I do balk at paying Ā£10 in London for a tapa that would likely come free with a drink for 1,50ā¬ near where I live in Spain.
Depending on how long I’m away for, definitely but only out of curiosity. I prioritise immersing myself in the local food culture, but even if you’re away for a week that’s 21 meals. Trying another country’s take on things familiar to me is fascinating. Just like how British Indian Restaurants bear little resemblance to traditional indian food and our take on Italian food can upset Italians, I enjoy seeing how different it is and if its still good as its own thing.
95% of “”Greek”” cuisine abroad is nonsense that’s unrecognizable in Greece.
For example, in the US, I am far more likely to find actual Greek-resembling things (like meat with potatoes, or pastas, or salads) at a regular American restaurant, then the hummus and flatbreads they promote as “”Greek”” in “”Greek”” restaurants.
Edit: and when you’re traveling, you want to try local things.
Germany has some pretty amazing dishes, but it’s all very regional. When I’m abroad there very rarely is any German restaurant tho and when there is, they pretty much only do Bavarian food.
To answer your question: No. I try to eat the local cuisine. Except for bread. If there’s any chance to get German bread, I’ll always go for that.
Yes! But I haven’t lived in my own country (Sweden) for almost 27 years, so it’s a novelty to me. I live in India at the moment and it’s basically impossible to find any Swedish food.
Finding an IKEA and going for meatballs wherever we are in the world has become a family tradition. I’ve had IKEA meatballs in various locations across Asia now (but never in India. There are a couple of IKEA stores here but they’re 6+ hours from where I live).
Recently, we found a non-IKEA Swedish restaurant in Bali and my kids were beyond excited, haha. They had good meatballs and fantastic homemade pickled cucumbers.
If I still lived in Sweden, going for Swedish food abroad would be the last thing I’d want to do, haha.
Italian here. Big nope. But itās not because Iām that kind of Italian (āItalian food abroad is shitā); itās because I can enjoy my country food everyday and when Iām abroad I love to try different dishes and local cuisine
I now live in an area with a big (and growing) Portuguese community that has a few šµš¹restaurants and more importantly a bakery and coffee shop which makes me feel at home!
Absolutely not, the pleasure of being abroad is enjoying foods you would never find in your country. The only reason I see people do that is to complain that it’s not as good as they eat home
Unfortunately, those don’t exist. Dutch cuisine is deeply misunderstood and even dutch people aren’t able to make it properly. So pretty much everyone thinks it sucks.
I went to salou and tried avoiding British styled food as much as possible, didn’t work , everything is British, British popular or stuff that’s barely Spanish that brits think is Spanish, like the only tapas I could find had paella that looked like what a brit would think paella was with a very broad description of it . Then the rest was just British food or British styled food or Italian stuff
During my time in Poland, I wanted to find a Ukrainian restaurant, but I decided to try something local instead because I had heard many positive things about their cuisine, and it was worth it.
I haven’t done that in Europe (don’t think there are that many Swedish restaurants in Europe anyway?), but I have tried Swedish food at restaurants in the US, only to see what it was like. They mainly had things like Swedish pancakes on some menus. It was all very tasty, but I wouldn’t say it was exactly how we’d do them here in Sweden.
Being swedish its kinda fun to see how different the ālocal ikeaā is from ours, but thats about itā¦
It seems to me that so much of [local food] is about the ingredients and so reindeer meat, moose or fish, even if you can get it, isnt the sameā¦getting the āproperā version of ingredients is as big a part of a dish as the cooking to meā¦
I avoid French restaurants in the US at all costs. For starters, french people living in the US are particularly insufferable. French restaurant owners even more. Also, french cuisine in the US is overpriced and too posh.
Italian here.
I never, ever go to italian restaurants abroad, for two solid reasons:
if Iām abroad I want to taste local cuisine or other international cuisine;
90% of the times, if you go to an Italian restaurant abroad either you will be disappointed by the way they interpret āItalianā in their āItalian cuisineā or by the ingredients used. Or both.
The only exception I made was in LA when I went to Giorgio Baldi, but only to see some Hollywood stars that were there: the cuisine was good to me but any average Italian restaurant in Italy can do it. Nothing memorable.
I am a Dane. There might be a handful of Danish restaurants in the world outside Denmark. More “New Nordic” ones probably.
But no, I wouldn’t. For me at least 50% of the experience of visiting a new country is to try its cuisine. I have no interest in eating what I usually do.
I’m Czech. There are practically no Czech restaurants anywhere. So, no. Our only export I see in other countries is beer and kofola.
Whenever I’m in another country, I always prefer to eat as much of the local food as I can. For example, hungarian food in Hungary. Greek food in Greece. Etc.
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No never. I barely ever go to swiss restaurants in Switzerland
Fortunately Norwegian food has no hype beyond norway (and maybe some places in spain with norwegians). The closest would be an IKEA-reastaurant (that serves some stuff that is to be “swedish food”).. though rather prefer not going to IKEA while visiting other countries.
Think you’ll hardly find restaurants with norwegian food even here in norway.. If it’s norwegian food it’s mostly truck-stops along the highways.. or some super expensive/fancy fish-restaurants in the cities… probably 50-100 indian, italian,chinese etc-themed restaurant for each norwegian..
Though surely there are a lot of norwegian food “hidden in foreign cuisine”.. The tons of fish exported from norway turns into fish n chips, sushi, bacalao or whatever in other countries.. but then as japense, chinese, english, portugese or whatever food..
Not restaurants, but bakeries yes. I long for the baguette when I’m abroad.
No. For two reasons.
Point 2 doesn’t count if the stay abroad lasts so long that I get homesick.
I’m Irish, so…no. But then I won’t go to an Italian in Germany or a Chinese in Spain either for example unless I had a good reason to. I prefer to take the opportunity to try the local cuisine as much as possible.
No, because they rarely, if ever, exist.
I do try to visit McDonald’s in every country I go to though, just to see what’s the same and what’s different
I’d like to see the place that has a “Danish restaurant”…
I mean I’m sure there’s bound to exist at least a few somewhere, it’s just that I’ve never seen any anywhere outside of the country. Would I go? Maybe once for curiositys sake, to see if they get things right or not.
There are few Spanish restaurants abroad, and I won’t go even if they were. The only option would it be maybe if I emigrate for long time and couldn’t go home or something like that. Or for some kind of cultural event.
Not really possible. Idk if you can find Lithuanian restaurants anywhere outside of Lithuania or heavy Lithuanian areas of the UK/Ireland. Maybe in Sweden or Germany too. But they’re all too close to home anyway.
No. The whole point of travelling is to be able to see, smell and taste other cultures.
I did it once in Pittsburgh, but not because of a craving, but because I was curious what German food would be elsewhere. I think that’s interesting.
But I usually aim to eat as much local food as possible.
No. I avoid them. If I were living there for a long period of time then I would probably go
Personally I always vacation in (or near) an IKEA. That way I know there will be meatballs available. Sadly, I need to pack my own Jansons, sill and surstrƶmming, but thatās fine.
I have yet to encounter a danish restaurant abroad. But then again, I havent really looked for it either…
No and it will be really hard to find one. I know there are few in major european cities (saw one in Dublin) but I wouldn’t go there. I don’t even eat our cuisine at home.
Never when it comes to Italian food but yes when it comes to Chinese food, mainly because I can’t find it where I live now and haven’t been able to go back to Hong Kong for the past 6 years.
Edit: This is for short term visits. If I have to live in a country, of course I’ll go to Italian restaurants.
I’m Dutch. I think my comment should start and end with that.
I never saw a Dutch restaurant abroad. I wonder why? š¤£
Yes, usually we take almost 2weeks abroad and sometimes we miss some more āhomeyā food. Also if there is Delta coffee we will go there.
I had the opportunity to try Dutch food abroad, but never did it. Maybe I will one day, depending on what they serve.
I’ve been to British pubs, but generally only so that someone I’m with can watch a football match on TV. I guess things like fish and chip shops happen elsewhere, but they’re not like the UK ones and best avoided.
As an Indian we try to find indian food wherever we go
Lol no (except the “Toad Hall” restaurant at Disneyland Paris)
Iām deeply fascinated by other countriesā take on the āEnglish pubā, but mostly became I no longer live in the U.K. and really miss pubs.
The only home cuisine I seek out is pies, but again because I canāt get them here as a matter of course.
(I go on holiday to the U.K. once a year and literally spend the first week eating pub lunchesā¦)
I’m italian, if I travel as a tourist or for work abroad, I always like to try the local cuisine. Even if sometimes it is not of my taste, I like to try new things. It happened that I ate italian food abroad (once in Paris for a business trip, at an organized dinner we had pizza. It was good, I didn’t complain) but if I can choose, I prefer not to.
That said, I live aborad and I learned which italian restaurants in my city are good and I go there when I want a good pizza.
We have barely any Finnish restaurants even in Finland, so no.
If I am with locals for several meals, I like to swap food knowledge:
They take me to the places where I can taste their traditional cuisine, AND we go to a reputable french restaurant around. We sample the food staples.
I’m sure to enjoy great meals, and I can tell them if their local french food is the real deal or not.
It makes for really fun and interesting meals. Who doesn’t love sharing their culture to newcomers?
If I ever saw Finnish restaurant outside of Finland, I would definitely try it!
I live in the Netherlands and I have never seen a Salvadoran restaurant here or anywhere in Europe. Would go out of homesickness bc I havent been in so long, but it would most likely be quite bad.
I’ve eating British pub food in many countries. Usually OK, but often with a local ‘twist’
Normally i only eat local there, thats why im there
But
Since hungarian cuisine is not very famous, id try, mostly because most of the time i only see abnominations, so just out of curiousity id try, because they are so rare
The chances of finding a Scottish cuisine restaurant abroad are tiny, so if I saw one I might just go out of curiosity. There are sometimes “British Pubs” in other places, which I generally avoid like the plague (especially as they tend to be in hellholes that attract the worst sort of Brit abroad).
Spanish restaurants now in contrast are more common elsewhere, and sometimes even rather good, but I do balk at paying Ā£10 in London for a tapa that would likely come free with a drink for 1,50ā¬ near where I live in Spain.
Depending on how long I’m away for, definitely but only out of curiosity. I prioritise immersing myself in the local food culture, but even if you’re away for a week that’s 21 meals. Trying another country’s take on things familiar to me is fascinating. Just like how British Indian Restaurants bear little resemblance to traditional indian food and our take on Italian food can upset Italians, I enjoy seeing how different it is and if its still good as its own thing.
No, to me, the point of travelling abroad is trying new food. Spanish food also tends to be dumb expensive abroad, so it isn’t even worthy.
Doesn’t really exist.
95% of “”Greek”” cuisine abroad is nonsense that’s unrecognizable in Greece.
For example, in the US, I am far more likely to find actual Greek-resembling things (like meat with potatoes, or pastas, or salads) at a regular American restaurant, then the hummus and flatbreads they promote as “”Greek”” in “”Greek”” restaurants.
Edit: and when you’re traveling, you want to try local things.
As a Belgian, yeha š
Whenever I travel for work somewhere and I hear about a restaurant by a Belgian, I will visit š
I have made a few friends that way ( the Belgian restaurant in Istanbul saved me when I lived there )
Germany has some pretty amazing dishes, but it’s all very regional. When I’m abroad there very rarely is any German restaurant tho and when there is, they pretty much only do Bavarian food.
To answer your question: No. I try to eat the local cuisine. Except for bread. If there’s any chance to get German bread, I’ll always go for that.
lol I donāt even go to German restaurants here where I live
Yes! But I haven’t lived in my own country (Sweden) for almost 27 years, so it’s a novelty to me. I live in India at the moment and it’s basically impossible to find any Swedish food.
Finding an IKEA and going for meatballs wherever we are in the world has become a family tradition. I’ve had IKEA meatballs in various locations across Asia now (but never in India. There are a couple of IKEA stores here but they’re 6+ hours from where I live).
Recently, we found a non-IKEA Swedish restaurant in Bali and my kids were beyond excited, haha. They had good meatballs and fantastic homemade pickled cucumbers.
If I still lived in Sweden, going for Swedish food abroad would be the last thing I’d want to do, haha.
Italian here. Big nope. But itās not because Iām that kind of Italian (āItalian food abroad is shitā); itās because I can enjoy my country food everyday and when Iām abroad I love to try different dishes and local cuisine
Yes!
I now live in an area with a big (and growing) Portuguese community that has a few šµš¹restaurants and more importantly a bakery and coffee shop which makes me feel at home!
Absolutely not, the pleasure of being abroad is enjoying foods you would never find in your country. The only reason I see people do that is to complain that it’s not as good as they eat home
What ? No. I don’t even go to Polish rearaurants in Poland. I eat Polish food when I visit my mom.
Unfortunately, those don’t exist. Dutch cuisine is deeply misunderstood and even dutch people aren’t able to make it properly. So pretty much everyone thinks it sucks.
Absolutely not. Do not want to be “those Brits” for one thing, but really, what is the point of travel, if not to eat the local cuisine?
British – I donāt even go to British restaurants in this country š¤£
Swedish cuisine does not have a strong international reputation, so it is not something I need to consider.
Swiss: Not at all.
Korean: Very often. Though 90% of all Korean restaurants in Europe are run by Chinese folk’ taking advantage of the current hype.
I went to salou and tried avoiding British styled food as much as possible, didn’t work , everything is British, British popular or stuff that’s barely Spanish that brits think is Spanish, like the only tapas I could find had paella that looked like what a brit would think paella was with a very broad description of it . Then the rest was just British food or British styled food or Italian stuff
During my time in Poland, I wanted to find a Ukrainian restaurant, but I decided to try something local instead because I had heard many positive things about their cuisine, and it was worth it.
It is rather uncommon to see Finnish restaurants elsewhere. Even if I would find one, no thanks – I travel to gather new experiences.
I’m italian, I’m in Paris right now and almost all restaurants have 9 italian dishes on a list of 12, so….
I haven’t done that in Europe (don’t think there are that many Swedish restaurants in Europe anyway?), but I have tried Swedish food at restaurants in the US, only to see what it was like. They mainly had things like Swedish pancakes on some menus. It was all very tasty, but I wouldn’t say it was exactly how we’d do them here in Sweden.
Being swedish its kinda fun to see how different the ālocal ikeaā is from ours, but thats about itā¦
It seems to me that so much of [local food] is about the ingredients and so reindeer meat, moose or fish, even if you can get it, isnt the sameā¦getting the āproperā version of ingredients is as big a part of a dish as the cooking to meā¦
It would be so incredibly rare for a finnish restaurant abroad, that I would 100% visit it just for the experience.
Absolutely not. For me the main attraction when going abroad is the local food!
Restaurants, cafes, food stands, supermarkets…
I avoid French restaurants in the US at all costs. For starters, french people living in the US are particularly insufferable. French restaurant owners even more. Also, french cuisine in the US is overpriced and too posh.
I think my chances of winning the Eurojackpot are better than finding an Icelandic restaurant
I really don’t crave for porridge and potatoes with meat when i’m on vacation.
I’m Norwegian so absolutely not. No one else can ferment fish like us – well maybe the Icelandic maniacs.
No but Iād be curious to see what Austrian cuisine is like in the US.
Or rather, what dishes Americans consider German but is actually Austrian.
Italian here.
I never, ever go to italian restaurants abroad, for two solid reasons:
The only exception I made was in LA when I went to Giorgio Baldi, but only to see some Hollywood stars that were there: the cuisine was good to me but any average Italian restaurant in Italy can do it. Nothing memorable.
Well yes I do, itās usually an opportunity to meet fellow Catalans abroad and generally itās a nice experience
There are no Dutch restaurants and thereās good reason for thatā¦.
I am a Dane. There might be a handful of Danish restaurants in the world outside Denmark. More “New Nordic” ones probably.
But no, I wouldn’t. For me at least 50% of the experience of visiting a new country is to try its cuisine. I have no interest in eating what I usually do.
If I’m abroad I usually want to try the local cuisine.
Unless I’m in the Netherlands.
I don’t eat British food in Britain. I’m definitely not eating it abroad.Ā
I’m Czech. There are practically no Czech restaurants anywhere. So, no. Our only export I see in other countries is beer and kofola.
Whenever I’m in another country, I always prefer to eat as much of the local food as I can. For example, hungarian food in Hungary. Greek food in Greece. Etc.
No because ive never seen it. I would try it out of curiosity. Portugal
My country’s cuisine is alcohol and yes I go to Irish pubs everywhere I go.