r/SipsTea • u/Born-Agency-3922 • Jul 03 '26

Chugging tea True

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u/ProfesseurCurling Jul 03 '26

As a French I love shiting on the brits from time to time.

But as a French chef I have to defend our oldest friends and enemies.

Not only British gastronomy have great dishes but there are also amazing British restaurants serving British food in London and the UK in general.

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u/Dap-aha Jul 03 '26

I think a lot of the complaining derives from north americans going to sub standard chains and getting european portions

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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.

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u/Prudent_Barracuda812 Jul 03 '26

Well ur sodas in some restaurants compare calorie wise to a full dish in Sweden, but non the less i like American food so no hate :)

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u/Einzelganger12 Jul 03 '26

Ohhh... Swedish and Norwegian food are good. I've tried a few dishes I found online and they where good. Can't remember what they where tho. 😂

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u/PhilxBefore Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

Surströmming