Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Indisches Restaurant

In addition to the amazing Museumsquartier down the street from my flat, across the street is an Indian restaurant. Melanie and I didn't feel like making dinner and it was already past 8pm, so we decided to try it out tonight. I got some lamb and naan and mango lassi. M got what she thought was chicken but it turned out to be a huge dish of fish in a delicious, tomato-based sauce. She also thought she was getting mango lassi, but the waitress brought out a mango-wine g'spritzer.
We sat outside, and admired the lights strung out across the street that say the street name (However, I'm not sure why, because there's also street signs on the buildings). People were walking up and down the street (with their ever-present dogs) and I felt very urban during dinner.
Afterwards, the waitress brought out the check and some little glasses with a mango liquid in them. We hadn't ordered anything else, but we figured it was just a complementary after-dinner refreshment. We gulped the liquid, only to discover to our surprise and slight perturbation, that it was mostly vodka, with perhaps a couple drops of mango juice. It was pretty funny, because we almost spit it on the waitress while she was getting the check back.
The restaurant wasn't exactly what we were expecting, but the food tasted good (even if it wasn't what we were expecting) and they have soup for 2 euros, which doesn't seem like a bad price. We'll probably go there if we don't feel like making dinner.
We walked down the next street that runs parallel to ours, and discovered many more ethnic restaurants, including another Indian one, and multiple asian places.

I think we are situated pretty nicely in the city. Apparently, our district is where the trendy people tend to live, as well as the most popular place for university student housing. We're close to a lot of places, and the center is about a half-hour's walk away.

So, if I ever moved to Vienna, I would probably live in this, the 7th Bezirk (district): Neubau.

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