Good food in the USA?? Yes, definitely!

While living in Connecticut we were surprised and happy(!) about the variety of (good) restaurants in our area. We like good food and to go out and I never thought that this would be something I could enjoy in the USA. You know, all those prejudices about the American food… Okay, unfortunately many are true. Yeah, the fast food… But! I discovered my absolute favourite food here: sushi and all kinds of sea food. We do not have so many good sushi restaurants in Germany, so I tried it just once before and did not like it. But here we visited many Japanese restaurants in the last few years.

Our next favourite: Indian food. Very difficult to find in our part of New Jersey. We had plenty of good Italian restaurants, even one excellent Spanish, Turkish, Chinese and so on. Not to mention all kinds of steak houses and…the sea food!! If you live at the ocean you can have fresh scallops, mussels, shrimps, all kind of fish, even lobster every day. (And they are not so ridiculously expensive here as in Germany!) Of course, as everywhere you can make bad choices here too. There are fast food restaurants at every corner and for sure many not good restaurants. And yes, sometimes we like to go to a diner too. I think it is always up to you what you eat, even in the USA…And yes, it depends on the money you can spend, for sure too.

I just wanted to say that it is an old prejudice about the USA that the food is generally bad. Not here. I do not know how it is if you go to Montana, Texas or Idaho. Probably more steaks…But at the East Cost and at the places I visited so far I always ate well.