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Italian Restaurant to Become Czech: June 7th – June 24th

June 7, 2012 by PDX Food Dude 12 Comments

Stepan Simek is a professor in the Theater Dept at Lewis & Clark College. Besides being a really cool guy, he used to be Václav Havel’s translator. Here is an email he recently sent out and I thought you all might be interested:

“I’d like to invite you all for a traditional CZECH DINNER in an ITALIAN restaurant.

Since I evidently don’ have enough to do in the summer, I have “brokered” an agreement between my Swiss wife’s Italian cousin who runs a lovely little family style restaurant on Alberta – Enzo’s Cafee Italiano and my Czech friends Karel and Monika Vitek, who run the famous Tabor Czech Food food cart Downtown. While Enzo is on vacation in Italy, Karel and Monika will take over his restaurant for three weeks only and serve traditional Czech fare there.

I will be the “general manager,” host, waiter, and a “person-who-is-around,” and the whole affair will last from June 7th to June 24th.

If you would like to have some dumplings, pork roast, schnitzels, goulash, and other wonders of the Czech cuisine complete with a healthy dose of Pilsner Urquell on tap, please come and join us there, and find out what I have been fed on in my early youth!
We are open on TH/FR/SA/SU from 5:00 to 10:00PM at Enzo’s Cafee Italiano, 2529 NE Alberta St. If you’d like to make reservations, please call 503 997 5467 or just show up.”

http://www.facebook.com/enzoscaffeitaliano#%21/enzoscaffeitaliano

Sound like fun to me!

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  1. Food Dude says

    June 7, 2012 at 1:43 pm

    You’ve heard this joke from Car Talk, right?

    A Russian scientist and a Czechoslovakian scientist had spent their whole lives studying the majestic grizzly bear. Each year they petitioned their respective governments to allow them to go to Yellowstone to study these wondrous beasts.

    Finally, their request was granted and they immediately flew to New York and then on west to Yellowstone. They reported to the local ranger station and were told that it was the grizzly mating season and it was much too dangerous to go out and study the animals.

    They pleaded that this was their only chance. Finally the ranger relented. The Russian and the Czech were given cell phones and told to report in each and every day.

    For several days they called in, and then nothing was heard from the two scientists. The rangers mounted a search party and found the scientists’ camp completely ravaged. No sign of the missing men.

    They then followed the trail of a male and a female bear. They found the female and decided they must kill the animal to find out if she had eaten the scientists because they feared an international incident.

    They killed the female and cut open the bear’s stomach… only to find the remains of the Russian.

    One ranger turned to the other and said, “You know what this means, don’t you?”

    “Of course,” the other ranger nodded. “The Czech is in the male.”

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