Traditional snacks:

Kepta duona su sūriu

The literal translation is fried bread with cheese

You can find this in every, every single bar/restaurant  and it is, perhaps, the most common thing that lithuanians eat while having a beer, watching their favorite sport: BASKETBALL (the same as in Portugal with the “tremoços”).

It´s surprisingly easy to make, and somehow it´s magical, the fried, the cheese, the crunchy... hummmm.

Kibinai

Traditional pastries with mutton (sheep meat) and onions. The dough is really nice and there are many varieties, you may find Kibinai with vegetables, mushrooms, cheese as filling. Normally is associated with Trakai, but you can find in most of the supermarkets, and in some traditional restaurants.

Dumplings

Very crunchy either with meat or vegetables or even mushrooms, normally they are accompanied by either spicy sauce or sour cream, or even both.

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Šnekutis (part 2)

On this second week I went back to the same restaurant, mainly because I mentioned this project to one of my dorm mates, and in two months he hadn´t tried any lithuanian tradicional food, being a good friend I could not allow this to continue!!!




Before entering, I suggested him to split the dishes, you will understand why I did that ;).

And we started by order soups:

Cucumbers soup ("Agurkinė") for me, and the Peas Soup ("Žirnių") for my friend, and as usually a nice light tradicional beer for each!!
Since I´ve already tried both soups I can say that I enjoyed more the cucumbers one, just because its flavour was stronger, but it is not so different for both contains almost the same ingredients, including the sour cream.

Now, since my friend was very hungry, I order, obviously:

 Zeppelins with meat ("Cepelinai su mėsa") for him, and Pancakes "Zemaiciai" with meat ("Žemaičių blynai") for me.

The first dish looks  harmless, however, a good challenge is too eat them both. Basically we have two monsters potatoes with meat inside, with a mushroom sauce. My friend was already full after the first one, and remember, he was hungry!!!

 And finally, the second dish, potato pancakes with pork meat inside. it was very good, I enjoyed it very much, mainly because the pancakes were incredible soft (they have a similar dish but they don´t boil the potatoes as long, which makes the dish, for me, tougher and it has a very strong taste, making it harder to eat ).

After this meal we went crawling to home!!!

Pea soup: 1.80 €

Cucumbers Soup: 1.80€

light beer beer: 2€

Zeppelins with meat: 3.80€

Pancakes "Zemaiciai" with meat: 3.80€

Šnekutis

Šnekutis is one of the most known restaurants in Vilnius. They provide traditional food at very accessible prices in a big portion ;)

Today, I went there, I started with a "pea soup" (Žirnių), which is a hot soup, dark traditional beer and the main dish: "Potatoes pie with pig's feet or ears" (Plokštainis su koja ar kiaulės ausimi).

First, I could kill my thirst with a nice black local beer.

 The pea soup, was a mixed of peas, onions, leek, bacon, potatoes and sour cream. It tasted very good, neither too intense nor tasteless, and the sour cream, like in most of Lithuanian soups combines very well.

Now, the main dish was, for me, after the soup, very heavy, being a portuguese I am used to eat soup, main dish and dessert, but in this case I had actually to leave some food on the plate!! However, the flavor was amazing, it´s a different way to eat potatoes, and lithuanians do it very well, I would recommend you to taste it!! I can also add that the proportion between the potatoes and meat was reasonable, in some places it may not happen.

Pea soup: 1.80 €

Dark beer (0,5 l): 2€

Potatoes pie with pig´s feet or ears: 3.80€





Address of Šnekutis:  Šv.Stepono g. 8, Vilnius   (catch the trolleybus number 2, stotis, until you see a big and colourful egg on your right, then being in front of the egg, follow the left road, and you will find this amazing restaurant)

I will leave here their website:
http://www.snekucio-alaus-pasaulis.lt/