Lingr Restaurant the best restaurant in Down Town St. Petersburg https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wk5QD6ss6Vc

This restaurant serves Cantonese and Norwegian food, or to put it another way, Nordic food with Asian flair. It pays tribute to Jew’s childhood and heritage (his father is Chinese and his mother is Norwegian), incorporating some of the culinary skills and methods he’s developed over the course of his career. Jew, 43, was a competitor on Bravo’s Top Chef Seattle and formerly the chef at BellaBrava and Stillwaters Tavern in downtown St. Petersburg. and worked in Washington, D.C., and Europe for a while. The salt and pepper fish cakes at chef Jeffrey Jew’s ambitious new restaurant Lingr may be the one dish that best captures the spirit of the place.

Pumping with Faroe Island salmon and flavored with Sichuan peppercorns and white pepper, these golf ball-sized fish balls are somewhere between a Norwegian fiskeboller and the curried fish balls you’d find on a Hong Kong street food cart. They come with two sauces: a Chinese sauce composed with tamari, black vinegar, soy, and ketchup, which Jew refers to as “that old-school secret Chinese ingredient.” The mustard sauce is modeled by a hot Norwegian mustard.

The best restaurants in DownTown St. Petersburg, Florida from a veteran of St. Petersburg.