Osteria de Peccatore: Unfortunately, our first choice restaurant was closed for August, so we wandered over to this place, with good Yelp reviews. It was a very touristy place, and if we didn’t know that from the ambiance and location, their ‘fettuccine Alfredo’ menu option would have told us. That said, the staff was very nice,…
I booked a tour of a hazelnut farm, based on a blog tip I read. After all, the region is known for its hazelnuts. Supposedly, Fererro Rocher only uses hazelnuts from the area for their famous chocolates. (Nutella, on the other hand, comes from their lesser hazelnut cousins.) Unfortunately, the tour was not quite what…
Km 0: I would definitely recommend this place, which was a small local cafe. The name is an Italian reference to locally-sourced ingredients. I ordered the rice salad, which was a delicious cold rice and pickled vegetable salad. B had the anchovy sandwich (because the region is known for anchovies), which tasted like a lot of salt and a little butter…
Izumi Ristorante: We needed more pasta like we needed a hole in the head, so we headed to sushi. Like other European sushi places, it also served ‘Chinese food’ (read: noodles intended to resemble lo mein) and local food (read: risotto and spaghetti). We ordered a sushi sampler and one roll each, and the fish…
13 A Tavola: There was quite the effort to find us a place to eat because (a) we set out at 2:30, as usual, and (b) it was August. Our hosts racked their brains for each possibly-open, non-ridiculous location, referencing a guide book and business cards, and making several phone calls. They finally sent us to…
Taglio: We were trying to eat lunch at an unreasonably late hour (4:30), as usual, so we wandered in here. We held out hope for sustenance because there was a couple out front finishing up some food. Alas, we learned that the kitchen was closed until dinner. We learned this in Italian, because we must have…
Restaurant Eteria: This was our first meal in Poland, and it was a great start. I ordered zucchini cakes – like my grandma makes, which came with salmon. The quality was quite good, as confirmed by the next time I had zucchini cakes: the latter ones were fairly saturated in oil. B ordered the schnitzel. We sat…
Bar Targowy: This was a ‘milk bar.’ We trekked to it, out in a decidedly non-touristy part of town; the moment we walked in, eyes were on us. I imagine they were wondering who in their right mind would make a trip to see something that would be reminiscent of a US high school cafeteria. I ordered surówki (pickled cabbage) and…
Sopot is a resort town, something I generally dislike for being crowded, overpriced, boring, and loud. But Sopot turns out to be my favorite resort town, at least partially because of its excellent food. U Kucharzy: This was the first place we ventured for dinner, and while it was on the expensive side for Poland, it made me…
Copenhagen is expensive. Bibi’s Diner: Decent. This story is told elsewhere, but the food itself was solid. We had dolma, tomato/cucumber salad, broccoli salad, cabbage salad, and potato salad, plus something bread-like which I think was chick-pea-based. In that part of town, this seemed to be one of the only affordable places to eat. Aamanns: This was…