300 - European
The European food-type category is a top level category that represents Places where food or beverages are purchased or served.
This category contains the following level 2 categories:
- Armenian
- Austrian
- Balkan
- Baltic
- Belgian
- Belorusian
- Bohemian
- British Isles
- Caucasian
- Danish
- Dutch
- East European
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Irish
- Italian
- Maltese
- Mediterranean
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Scandinavian
- Sicilian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Swiss
- Ukrainian
| Category ID | Food Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 300-000 | European | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Europe. European food is a combination of the cuisines of Europe and other Western countries, as well as Russia. |
| 301-000 | French | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of France.This food type food varies per region. French creperies are often included in this category. Popular French dishes include blanquette de veau, canard au sang, coq au vin, oysters, pot-au-feu, steak au poivre, and soufflé. |
| 301-027 | French-Alsatian | French food from the Alsace region of France, which has Germanic culinary traditions. Traditional cuisine is baeckeoffe, flammekueche, chorcrote, and fleischnacka. |
| 301-028 | French-Auvergnate | French food from the Auvergne area of France consisting of hearty peasant fare such as cheese, pork, lamb, and beef dishes. |
| 301-029 | French-Basque | French food from the Basque area of France with a Spanish influence, consisting of freshwater fish, salt cod, fresh and cured meats, and many vegetables and legumes. |
| 301-030 | French-Corse | French food from the region of Corsica consisting of wild boar, seafood and river fish, such as trout, cheeses from goats or sheep milk, and chestnuts. |
| 301-031 | French-Lyonnaise | French food from the region of Lyon in France consisting of sausages, duck pate or roast pork. The cuisine is fatty and oriented around meat. |
| 301-032 | French-Provencale | French food from the Provence region of France consisting of olives and olive oil, garlic, sardines, rock fish, sea urchins, octopus, lamb, goat, chickpeas, grapes, peaches, apricots, strawberries, cherries, and Cavaillon melons. |
| 301-033 | French-Sud-ouest | French food from the Sud-Ouest region of France such as roasted Guinea fowl, quail, eggs, and potatoes. |
| 302-000 | German | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Germany. This food type varies per region. Popular German dishes include hasenpfeffer, königsberger klopse, sauerbraten, spätzle, schnitzel, kartoffelsalat, rindsroulade. |
| 303-000 | Greek | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Greece. Typical ingredients include tomato, aubergine, potato, green beans, lamb and feta. Popular Greek dishes include moussaka, souvlaki, gyros, keftedes, yemista. |
| 304-000 | Italian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Italy. Typical ingredients include potatoes, rice, capers, maize, corn, sausages, pork and various types of cheeses, salamis, pepper, olives, semolina, artichokes, oranges, aubergines, and courgettes. Popular Italian dishes include Bistecca alla Florentine, Bacall alla Vincentian, Lasagna, Pasta e aioli, Pizza and Raga alla Bolognese. |
| 305-000 | Irish | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Ireland. Typical ingredients include potatoes, cabbage, meat and seafood. Popular Irish dishes include Irish stew and soda bread. |
| 306-000 | Austrian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Austria. This food type is a combination of regional traditions highly influenced by surrounding areas like Hungarian, Czech, Italian, and Bavarian cuisine. A popular Austrian dish is gulasch. |
| 307-000 | Belgian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Belgium. Typical ingredients include spices, meats, fresh vegetables and herbs. Popular Belgian dishes include lapin à la geuze/konijn in geuze, stoemp, salade liégeoise/luikse salade, and flemish carbonades. Signature dishes are mussels and French fries. |
| 308-000 | British Isles | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of the British Isles. This food type represents restaurants that serve English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh food. Popular British Isles foods are roast meats, fish and chips, pies, and sausages. |
| 309-000 | Dutch | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of the Netherlands. Typical ingredients include fish and vegetables. Popular Dutch dishes include hutspot, pannekoeken, stamppot and erwtensoep. |
| 310-000 | Swiss | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Switzerland. Typical ingredients include cheese ( Emmentaler, Gruyère, Appenzeller) and chocolate. Note: See also Fondue food type. Popular Swiss dishes are cheese fondue, raclette, rösti, and quiche. |
| 311-000 | Spanish | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Spain. Typical ingredients include pork, potatoes, tomatoes, sofrito, garlic, onions, peppers, beans, cabbage, and mushrooms. This food type is generally associated with tapas bars and churros. Popular Spanish dishes include chorizo, gazpacho, jamón serrano, paella, tortilla de patates and calamari. |
| 311-034 | Spanish-Tapas | Tapas represents restaurants that serve a variety of small dishes or appetizers that may be combined to make a full meal. Tapas is popular in Spanish cuisine and others. |
| 313-000 | Portuguese | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Portugual. Typical ingredients include fish (acalhau, sardines, octopus, crabs, shrimp, lobster), cheese (queijo de castelo branco, queijo da serra da estrela). Popular Portuguese dishes include alcatra, alheiras, carne de porco à alentejana, pregos, bifanas and espetada. |
| 314-000 | Maltese | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Malta. Popular Maltese dishes are aljotta (fish soup), fenek (rabbit), gbejniet (cheese), lampuka (dolphin), pastizzi and ravjul (ravioli). |
| 315-000 | Sicilian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Sicily. This food type is based on Italian cuisine and has Spanish, Greek, and Arab influences. Appetizers include caponata, a type of potato and cheese pie, pasta is spaghetti prepared with sea urchin and manicotti, main dishes are meat or fish based. |
| 350-000 | Scandinavian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Scandanavia. This food type generallly applies to restaurants serving food from Scandinavian countries, such as Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. Typical ingredients include cereal, pork, seafood, apples, plums, carrots, potatoes, onions, beer, bread, blue cheese, feta. Popular Danish dishes are hakkebøf, fridakeller, jomfruhummer, laks, rogn, bliksemad, flæskesteg. Popular Norwegian dishes include pizza, pasta, meatballs, smoked salmon, gravlaks, rakfish. Popluar Swedish dishes include köttbullar, inlagd sill, gravad lax, kroppkakor, blodpudding, isterband, janssons frestelse, lutfisk. Note: See also Finnish food. |
| 351-000 | Finnish | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Finland. This food type is based mainly on fish, meat, various vegetables, and mushrooms. Popular Finnish dishes include cabbage rolls, pickled herring, smoked fish, lihapullat, mustamakkara, pepu. |
| 352-000 | Swedish | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Sweden. Swedish food has traditionally been regions, with difference in dishes from the North and South of Sweden. Northern cuisine includes meat such as reindeer and game dishes, while the South uses a lot of fresh vegetables. |
| 353-000 | Norwegian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Norway. This food type is based on food readily available in Norway, traditionally with a focus on game and fish, but is now influenced by western Europe. |
| 354-000 | Danish | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Denmark. Danish food consists of ground meats and fish dishes, as well as roast pork and poached cod. |
| 370-000 | East European | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Eastern Europe. This food type represents restaurants that serve food from East European countries like Moldova, Romania, Slovakia. Popular Romanian dishes are mamaliga, carnati, caltabosi, cozonac, pasca, sarmale, snitel, zacuzca. Note: See also Bohemian, Hungarian, Polish, and Russian for related food types. |
| 371-000 | Hungarian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Hungary. This food type is often spicy. Typical ingredients include paprika, black pepper, and onions. Thick vegetable dishes, cold fruit soups, and meat dishes are common. Popular Hungarian dishes include halászlé, palacsinta, hurka, chicken paprikash, and galuska. |
| 372-000 | Mediterranean | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of the Mediterranean. This food type is found in countries adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea. Fruit, vegetables, poultry, seafood, grains, beans, and pasta are the general fare, and cooking is usually accomplished using olive oil. |
| 373-000 | Baltic | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of the Baltic region. This food type represents restaurants that serve food from the Baltic region, including Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Food from this area is generally simple and satisfying with few sauces or excessive seasoning. Breads and soups are mainstays. |
| 374-000 | Belorusian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Belarus. This food type represents restaurants that serve food from Belorussia. Food from this area typically consists of soups, such as borsch and ukha, stews, sausages, and pies cooked without heavy seasonings. |
| 375-000 | Ukrainian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of the Ukrane. Ukrainian food typically consists of pork, beetroot, vegetables, and potatoes. Popular Ukrainian dishes include Tyrohy, Borshch, Varenyky, Holuptsi, and Oseledets. |
| 376-000 | Polish | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Poland. This food type generally includes meat of all kinds, various noodles and dumplings. Popular Polish dishes are zupa grzybowa, pierogi, bigos, kotlet schabowy and placki kartoflane. |
| 377-000 | Russian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Russia. This food type generally contains soups (such as cold soup, noodle soup, cabbage soup, fish soup), pork, poultry, zharkoye, vegetables (such as carrots and sauerkraut). |
| 378-000 | Bohemian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Bohemia. This food type represents with a Czech name where it is not possible to define a more detailed food type. |
| 379-000 | Balkan | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of the Balkan Peninsula. This food type represents restaurants that serve food from Balkan countries such as Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Macedonia. Note: See also Hungarian for related Food Type. |
| 380-000 | Caucasian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Caucasus region. This food type represents restaurants that serve food from the Caucasus Mountains area (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan). |
| 381-000 | Romanian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Romania. Popular Romanian dishes include mamaliga, carnati, caltabosi, cozonac, pasca, sarmale, snitel and zacuzca. |
| 382-000 | Armenian | Food that represents the unique culture and flavor of Armenia. This food type represents restaurants that serve food from Armenia or the Armenia diaspora. The preparation of meat, fish, and vegetable dishes require stuffing, frothing, and puréeing. Lamb, eggplant, yogurt, and bread (lavash) are basic features. Cracked wheat (burghul) is preferred over maize and rice. Popular dishes include dzhash, khorovatz (also known as shish kabob) and harissa. |
