Restaurant Reviews
Review from the Courier Post:
East European dishes benefit from real grandmothers touch….
Carmen Rednic learned to cook from her Romanian Grandmother, who lived on a farm in Transylvania and would use its organic chickens and produce to feed her family.
So when Rednic opened her café in Delanco in December 2003, her goal was to reproduce her Grandmothers homemade specialties, such as stuffed cabbage and chicken paprikash. But then, her Grandmother, Nina Rusu, did her one better. A few months ago, she came to stay with Rednic for a year, cooking and teaching her the old world recipes.
“At the airport, they gave her a hard time because she was carrying so many tins of Hungarian paprika,” Rednic said. But Rusu eventually won over the customs officials, inviting them to visit the café and sample her cooking.
Rusu spends a few hours in the kitchen each day, rolling the cabbage leaves filled with beef, and chopping and simmering the vegetables for her soul-warming soups.
Knowing there is a grandmother in the kitchen only adds to the charm of the sweet little 50-seat café, with mismatched china, Romanian lamps, and the warmth of a corner bistro in Europe.
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