#klaras

New month, new tasty Tuesday, and this week we decided to venture down Hillsborough Street to Klara’s Restaurant. Klara’s features modern Czech cuisine, which is typically meat based with a sauce and a side dish, commonly dumplings. On their lunch menu there were a few Czech dishes to choose from as well as a wide variety of Czech inspired sandwiches. Klara’s Restaurant is tucked away in Hillsborough, and while some may walk by and miss it, it is the perfect getaway atmosphere for lunch.

We decided to start off with a mixed green salad and added fried brie cheese on top. The fried brie was a perfect addition to the salad, as soon as we broke into the fried crust the warm melted brie flowed out onto the salad. It was a wonderful complement.

For our meal we decided to try both the smoke salmon sandwich and the fried mozzarella sandwich. The smoked salmon was paired wonderfully with capers, a sour cream dill spread, lettuce, & tomato all on a hoagie roll. The sandwich was thick and filling, and came with a side of the soup of the day. The soup was a twist on a classic chicken noodle, it had beef instead of chicken, which is traditional to Czech cuisine. The fried mozzarella sandwich is just as amazing as it sounds, being fried mozzarella on a sub like sandwich with lettuce and tomatoes.

Lastly we topped off our meal with Klara’s homemade strawberry dumpling. The dumpling was stuffed with strawberries and topped with sour cream, warm butter, sugar, and cocoa. Dumplings are a traditional Eastern European addition to meals, and this dessert dumpling definitely did not disappoint. It came out warm and drizzled in strawberry sauce as well. This was the perfect ending to our meal at Klara’s.