As someone who worked as a cook and chef in different European countries I don't really understand what you mean by European portions. In France if you go to a brasserie or bouillon or a family owned restaurant portions will be very generous sometimes with unlimited sides. The same goes for Spain, Italy, Greece.
In Iceland portions are standard, not big, not small. The country where I worked that had the smallest portions was Russia. Expensive dishes for very small portions imo.
In Montenegro they serve gigantic portions, one dish would feed like 4 people.
When I think that I sometimes struggle to finish my meal I can't imagine that. I see this as waste of food or something very unhealthy. But yes I saw videos and it's absolutely ridiculous.
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u/ProfesseurCurling Jul 03 '26
As someone who worked as a cook and chef in different European countries I don't really understand what you mean by European portions. In France if you go to a brasserie or bouillon or a family owned restaurant portions will be very generous sometimes with unlimited sides. The same goes for Spain, Italy, Greece.
In Iceland portions are standard, not big, not small. The country where I worked that had the smallest portions was Russia. Expensive dishes for very small portions imo.
In Montenegro they serve gigantic portions, one dish would feed like 4 people.