Old European

Old European Restaurant is not only a local restaurant, they have restaurants in several locations, including Pullman and Post Falls.   In Spokane, there once was two locations.  The valley location closed and now there is only one, on north Division St near Lincoln Rd.

Their specialty is breakfast and lunch and advertise that they serve foods from Germany, Scandinavia, Sweden, Ireland, Eastern Europe and America. The north Division store is new, a transplant fro the other side of the street,  but it is cheery and spacious and there are probably less lines waiting outside the door like there used to be when they were across the road.  There was no line today when I was there for a gathering of friends.

There are a lot of dining options...
There is a breakfast bar...

or there are tables and booths. As you can see advertised on the wall here, they make fresh squeezed orange juice.







It's a friendly crowd at this place.  The times I have been here, I always see someone I know... or meet someone new to me.  On this particular day I met a famous Hollywood director, now retired, who introduced himself after jumping into a photo we were taking of our group.  He was wearing sun glasses, trying to remain incognito...(I am sure) and to keep his name secret, I will only tell you his first name.. George.
  Anyhow it was fun.


I do not know what everything here is, but there is quite a selection on the menu, even something simple if you like, like oatmeal. On our table was a variety of items... here are some:

I had stuffed french toast, (stuffed with bacon and eggs)

Did I like it?   No. The french toast part was good, butI think too that she gave me ham instead of bacon, but as I was eating it I figured, they were pretty much the same thing anyhow.  I didn't like my coffee either.  I guess this restaurant just isn;t for me. My Hungarian husband, who also has eaten here before, doesn't like to come here, so I was hoping I cold give him a good report.  His complaint about it is that the dish they serve, labeled Hungarian Goulash, (which he has ordered here before,) "isn't even Hungarian."  HE did like though, he said that it was good, ust not Hungarian by his Hungarian definition.

A lot of people do like this place, they love the food here, but it just doesn't seem to be the place for me.  I kinda like my eggs and bacon separate, and not hiding beneath my french toast. I will say that they do make some not-so-usual dishes., like the walnut smothered crepes, which I heard were wonderful.  There really is a lot to select from on the menu and uniquely different breakfast meals is what this place is about. As for me, this is not one of my favorites, but then, I just like good ol pancakes, french toast or bacon and eggs for breakfast.  For me, it was too hard to pick something from their menu.

Taco Del Mar

Taco Del Mar is located on the North side of Spokane... in the Wandermere area.  It's a sort of Baja Mexican seaside kind place that specializes in... fish tacos.

Yes, fish tacos, (supposedly all the rave beachside USA, but for me, when I first heard about them, this was quite a tastebud s-t-r-e-t-c-h.... and at that time I had never heard of such a thing before.  What is stranger is that a fish taco usually has shredded cabbage on it, (lettuce, for tacos, is the usual fare) 
Setting out for lunch this was the place of choice today and fish taco was on the menu for me.  My dining partner, Nate, went for the taco salad.

This restaurant is set up like Subway sandwich shop, All the ingredients are laid out for you and you can select them as you go.  They serve all sorts of things.. make them to your order right before you in the line, you pay and then you take your food and find a place to sit.  You can even sit outside on sunny days, as they have tables in the front.

It's a pretty big place and there was quite a lunchtime crowd.  This made me happy as I waited patiently in liine for my turn to order.  A lot of people really like this place.


Here is their menu... click it to enlarge.

I was talking to a friend who mentioned that this is where they learn how to eat a burrito... she didn't know before and had learned she had all her life been eating her burrito WRONG!  Sary.. if you ask me.  How do you eat a burrito?
Sign says:

They have a great sense of humor here too...

And the fish tacos...?
I thought they were good!

As of this writing I could not find an urbanspoon listing for this particular Taco Del Mar restaurant located at 12501 North Division Street
(509) 466-4814, but that is the one we visited.

Round Table Pizza

Round Table Pizza located in the Five Mile Shopping Mall, 1908 W Francis Ave, and it was the destination for this outing with two of my dear friends for lunch. I had never been here before and they go here a lot because they really like the lunch special.  I can hardly refuse an invitation to lunch, especially with people I love, so off I went.  

We were Salad Bar Surfing in no time at all.

In addition to the salads, one friend had a mini pizza and I did the lunch special which included the salad bar, pizza bar and a drink.  The pizza bar had a pasts dish offered as well as pizza that day. 

I have since learned that there are Round Table Pizza restaurants at a lot of locations....  I really need to get out more I hguess.  I have actually heard of it, drived past even many times before... but I know this now fer sure, fershizzle,, because  I checked it out on the web!  They are in several states and in a lot of cities, in Spokane alone there are three...one on the South Hill and one in the Valley too!  This means when you order up a King Arthur Supreme in CA, OR, AK or WA you know what you will be getting kinda like a Pizza Hut or 'Mickey D's" (MacDoonalds, if you please)

They are popular.  Here is their menu link.

Here is my lovely salad.  

My friends/ salads were lovely too, but I didn't get good photos of them, nor of our pizza, past or anything else that day.  

As this is currently one of my friends'... these two sisters's... favorite lunch stops, I just may go again sometime with them, but then, once they read my blog, they just might want to "restaurant around" with me a bit. 

Until then,  I can at least say that I have eaten at the Round Table Pizza, and I concur with my friends, it's a great little place to have a quick and tasty lunch, another great-little-restaurant-in-Spokane.