I was in town alone and indecisive so my wife sent me a text from out of town and said go and eat a lamb sandwich at Kennedy Café. She always knows what the best thing is to do, so I did. Except I didn't have a lamb Donner, I had koftes.
Koftes are, as far as I can tel, Mediterranean cuisine's answer to meatballs. I have seen them illustrated in various designs, Greek Turkish and now Uzbek for the Kennedy Café is an Uzbek eatery such is the variety of Key West's hotel help.
One is waited on by sturdy dark eyed Asiatics which is truly exotic, one thinks of Mongolia which I have only ever seen briefly from the window of a train, and Samarkand and the Silk Trade route through Central Asia, which I have a hankering to see. I am really very fond of Kennedy Café. 
And the food's really good too. The lamb meatballs were delicious, crispy on the outside an cooked through but not tasteless on the inside and the mashed potatoes were real. The Uzbek bread is interesting stuff with a soft spongy interior and a shiny crust embedded with sesame seeds. I love their lamb sandwiches as a result, Shwarma with a white sauce which is Uzbek I'm told and Donner with a red sauce which I prefer:
The Kennedy Café used to be a Cuban restaurant called Seven Days Deli operated on Kennedy Drive and the decor remains but the food is something quite different. They offer sadly no Uzbek food for breakfast and they offer American food for the other meals of the day though why one would turn down a chance at Central Asia cuisine I cannot possibly imagine.
I guess a lot of it is just variations on Mediterranean stuff that has become known in the US:
Beer and a Donner. Nectar of the gods.
Koftes are, as far as I can tel, Mediterranean cuisine's answer to meatballs. I have seen them illustrated in various designs, Greek Turkish and now Uzbek for the Kennedy Café is an Uzbek eatery such is the variety of Key West's hotel help.One is waited on by sturdy dark eyed Asiatics which is truly exotic, one thinks of Mongolia which I have only ever seen briefly from the window of a train, and Samarkand and the Silk Trade route through Central Asia, which I have a hankering to see. I am really very fond of Kennedy Café. 
And the food's really good too. The lamb meatballs were delicious, crispy on the outside an cooked through but not tasteless on the inside and the mashed potatoes were real. The Uzbek bread is interesting stuff with a soft spongy interior and a shiny crust embedded with sesame seeds. I love their lamb sandwiches as a result, Shwarma with a white sauce which is Uzbek I'm told and Donner with a red sauce which I prefer:The Kennedy Café used to be a Cuban restaurant called Seven Days Deli operated on Kennedy Drive and the decor remains but the food is something quite different. They offer sadly no Uzbek food for breakfast and they offer American food for the other meals of the day though why one would turn down a chance at Central Asia cuisine I cannot possibly imagine.
I guess a lot of it is just variations on Mediterranean stuff that has become known in the US: 
Beer and a Donner. Nectar of the gods.
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Mr Conchscooter:
You are an encylopedia of information. Just this past weekend we drove past a place and their sign mentioned "Shwarma" and we were wondering what these were. Now we know they are lamb sandwiches on crunchy crusted bread but soft inside.
I think we also have Donners here, but everyone calls them Donairs.
bob
Riding the Wet Coast
ps: I like the idea of sending you text message commands on your cell phone.
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