Spanish. I also really love British pub food.

It's not Christmas in our family without Banket (sp?). It's a Dutch pastry that is filled with this glorious almond paste filling. Seriously it's incredible. Our family always makes it in sticks but some people form their sticks into letters. It doesn't matter it's addicting! We also make what we call 'Ollie Balls' (a fried doughnut type ball with raisins), a rye bread (with a ridiculous Dutch name I can't spell) and rum raisins that my uncles bury in their backyards (no joke!).

My favorites are German, Austrian and Hungarian food - my parents' and grandparents heritage. My maternal grandfather grew up in Braşov, Romania, but I have never had (or at least I'm not aware of) having cuisine from that area.

Czech.

Sorry, but Czech dumplings are better than German -- the Czech ones are lighter and fluffier (I remember sitting one time at a long table at the Pilsner Brewery pub, eating lunch near two vacationing German ladies, who kept saying "Das iss gut knudel!")

Other great Czech food: Spanalské Ptacky (Spanish Birds); bramborak (potato pancake, very garlicky and made with marjoram); jitrnice (a liver sausage); prejt (jitrnice without the casing); babovka (marble cake baked in a bundt pan); roast pork, sauerkraut and dumplings; fruit dumplings; buchty, solace... Oh, and Czech Crhistmas cookies. They really are the best! And there are so many of them... Czech women go nuts at Christmas time, and spend December evenings baking dozens of different varieties.

Oh, and then there is this sort of layered bread pudding made with grated apples and cinnamon, and soup with liver dumplings, and czech crepes, and apple studel and ...

I've also picked up some Swiss specialties after having lived there: Swiss potato salad, which is made with white wine and no mayo; Swiss macaroni and cheese, made with pasta and potato, and topped with caramelized onions; and croute and cheese fondue...

I think most people love French fries, which is a traditional Belgian meal.
We have this small restaurant called a 'frituur', and I can tell you this much: every town, no matter how small, almost has these two buildings standard: a church and a 'frituur'. It means as much as "the fryer" and it can be housed even in a camper on the side of the road, or in an actual house. Everything is fried there ofcourse, but usually for a typical Belgian package, you take a paper cone filled with fries and a big blob of mayonnaise or ketchup on it, and if you want, one or more fried side dishes of meat. Vegetables are very rare in these places! :-)
and how much I love eating healthy, on a sad day, nothing beats going to a frituur and getting a greasy pack of fries is sure to turn your frown upside down!
If you ever get the chance to visit Belgium, you'll practically trip over these places, and you'll love it!

I love traditional British food. Fry up breakfasts, beef roasts and yorkshires, meat pies ... so good!

Spanish tapas. I wish all cuisine was served in snack-sized portions. Lots of samples are so much better than one big dish.

Greek or Spanish, occasionally Turkish if its done right

Turkish. A Turkish friend would cook us up The Best stuff for parties. Oh man... If I can't have Italian food, definitely Turkish. There are many, many dishes from all over Europe, east to west, that I love, but as a vegetarian I think Italian and Turkish are my best bets.

My husband and I really totally absolutely love Portuguese food. It is as good as French or Italian food in our opinion, and we've visited 15 European countries. Of course we also love Dutch food since that is what we both grew up with. But Portuguese food is something special.

Hungarian...ie - my grandmother's cooking

I love Swedish + Finnish food. Since returning from there last summer, I've been making Swedish pancakes, Karelian pies and gravlax about once every fortnight. Delicious. And one of the most memorable meals I've had was in a restaurant in Stockholm, where I had the tastiest, most delicate dilled potatoes + salmon.

Greek and Spanish.

Greek and Spanish for sure.
Spanakopita, Baklava, Tzatziki, Gyros, Souvlaki

Arroz con leche, Calamares, Paella, Empanada, Tapas

Not to mention cheeses from both countries.

Second to Italian is Greek food for me.

Hungarian! Stuffed cabbage, paprikas csirke (chicken with paprika over egg barley mmmmm), gulyas/goulash, lecso, sour cherry soup (just made a batch last week!).

Meat, potatoes, bell peppers, paprika, and sour cream. Cannot go wrong. x)

Greek! (And Turkish, if that can be considered European.)

British food for sure. I love their desserts, meat pies, and scones.

Also, I enjoy Eastern European food. My grandmother lives in a region influenced by Polish, Czech, Slovenian and Ukrainian immigrants and she makes the most wonderful cabbage rolls. Pierogi are my favorite comfort food.

Polish! REAL kielbasa, pierogis, Bigos., holubtsi...

(And this from someone who's ancestors hail from halfway between Rome and Naples...)

Greek and Turkish are so great for vegetarians, they are two of the very few cuisines where vegetarians can eat equally well to meat eaters in most situations. If you partake of everything, then Spain deserves equal footing with France and Italy.

Greek!

After growing up outside of Chicago, having Polish food in Poland was a revelation. I'm telling you, those bland, slimy pockets of flavorless cheese are nothing like actual pierogi. First off, in Poland, they're not afraid to fry them in pork fat. Second off, there are usually several ingredients in the pierogi. The ones with the plain cheese or underseasoned potato show up on menus as "Russian Pierogi". Also in Poland's favor: paczki (krispy kreme, eat your heart out.) and oscypek (curse you, US Customs, for not allowing me to bring this cheese into the country!)

My guess is that I'd like pretty much any country's cuisine, but Polish food is definitely better in Poland than it is here.

My husband votes for Polish and I vote for Greek, but we're German and Austrian so I guess we need to be loyal.

shockingly french cuisine is my least favorite, italian also is at bottom (possibly because of growing up in a french/italian family). i love greek (not moussaka or anything creamy, more like salads and fish meze - could eat that all day for the rest of my life), spanish/basque (mmm tapas/pintxos), and german cuisine (i.e. a nice wintertime dampfnudeln/knoedeln or a seared summertime Regenforellen with salad).

- and for dessert, anything turkish or dutch (stroopwaffeln!)

Romanian! Oh my lord, the soups alone are delightful! And then of course there's paprikash, papanasi, and cabbage rolls. Mujdei (romanian garlic sauce) is especially amazing. It's just not a proper Thanksgiving without a bowl of mujdei going around.

Scandinavian. The meatballs and the super dense rye bread were my favourites, along with the red cabbage reduced in blackcurrant juice and vinegar (easy to make at home, but do it with all the doors open or you'll never get the smell out). Danish remoulade. Fantastic soups. A bizarre thing called raestan fiskur which is essentially rotted fish - it's hung outside for three weeks and then boiled up and served with melted down aged sheep's fat. Sounds horrendous, smells horrendous, tastes amazing.
The most delicious dessert called risalamande. The Christmas cookies (piparnoetur) ... I cannot wait to go back. I really can't.

I really, really miss British food, as much as it is so often mocked!

My husband is German, and his sauerkraut with potato puree and pork chops is one of my favorite meals!

German food makes me so homesick - it is without a doubt my favorite. It makes me sad that it gets such a bad rap at times. Give me a plate full of Schupfnudeln, Maultaschen, Knödel mit Pfifferlingen, or even a nice little Apfelschorle to sip and I am happy.

I registered just so I could answer this question... I adore Bosnian food! Cevapcici, Ajvar, Cajmak, Burek! This cuisine does not get enough attention! Also, I fourth (fifth?) the support for Polish food. Bigos!

@missyv - I *love* Bosnian food as well - totally underrated. Fortunately, there are a few spots in Chicago where one can find good Bosnian cuisine. Also, I third (fourth?) Greek and Spanish food. Mediterranean food in general is amazing.

The top of my list is British and French, but since we aren't allowed to choose French, I'll go with Belgian and then Portuguese.

Definitely Polish! My grandmother was a fantastic cook. Luckily I've got a book of her recipes.

Belgian! http://7th-taste.com/2011/01/19/belgian-style-mussels-with-belgian-ale/

Mediterranean food in general. Interestingly, the most healthy judging by statistics.
Perhaps I should enjoy it more often.

Lithuanian!

Spanish of course, and portuguese, they are as good as italian and so much helthier
tan french.

There is some damn good Bulgarian food out there!

The salads, cheese and pastries - yum.

There is so much variety within each country, particularly between coastal and mountainous regions, that I couldn't really answer that question. Mediterranean countries, particularly the islands - Greece, Sicily, Majorca, Corsica - share a simple approach to seafood, that I love. My favourite dish is grilled fresh fish/squid, a lemon/olive oil dressing on the side, with some chopped red onion and parsley. I could eat that every day.

I'll be visiting Turkey for the first time soon, and expect there will be a version of this dish, using locally caught fish, on the Mediterranean coast.

Portuguese! Definitly!
And specially from the South, where the food is lighter, fresher and with lots of herbs.
Bacalhau à Brás is my favourite dish of all, but I also love bacalhau com grão, carne de porco com amêijoas, tomates fritos com ovos, caldeirada, arroz de peixe, arroz de marisco, bifanas, favas com chouriço, feijoada, gaspacho, açorda, caldo verde, canja and the list goes on and on.
All the conventual pastry I've tried so far are to die for, too!

My favorite is Belge (I think my last 10 pounds of weight gain is from friteries and fry sauce). Also, there's a really good Irish restaurant here (the chef's even Irish) and I've grown to love that. I also like British pub and Dutch food.

@KARIKINSEY - my brothers couldn't pull off "Ollibollen", so they're ollie-bollies at our house! My dad was stationed in Greece and then in Holland, so those two are near and dear to my heart, then I spent a measly two weeks in Romania and fell IN LOVE with the food, especially the salata di vinate (hope I got that right - I'm sure some kind soul will correct me!). I ate it at every single meal after I first tried it...oh so very good.

Greek food. I love feta and olives, galaktobureko, dolmas, kitirati ( small wheat pasta in the shape of rice)... hmmmm...
A close friend of me has swabian/greek roots, her food is allways amazing!

British! I love meat, cheese & and potatoes, and boozy desserts full of dried fruits, savory pies and fried food, so British is just entirely up my alley. PLUS, tikka masala. Mmmm.

At the moment: Slovenian! We have an excellent potica recipe, but i'm going to venture into gibanica hopefully this fall/winter. And maybe jota and ricet too. We're making our own version of cevapcici for dinner tonight too (ok, not Slovenian, but...).

Would love to see more out of the norm European cuisines on the Kitchn!

BOSNIAN. There is a restaurant in Dubrovnik called "the taj mahal" that specialises in bosnian cuisine. We were advised to try it and warned that there would be a queue, but it was worth it. We ended up it there 3 nights in a row it was so good!

@mandamas , what are the places in chicago you recommend? And @designgratislondon , I am sad I hadn't heard of that place while I was in Dubrovnik! I *adore* Bosnian food!