Six Favorite Meals in Europe
So I am just getting around to posting this, but I compiled my six fave meals I ate in Europe here. They range from super cheap to average priced, but all were very memorable and super tasty!
1. Le Petit Prince, Latin Quarter, Paris
This restaurant we ate at with our friends Jason and Allisyn after searching around for a good little French restaurant for a while. We found this one on a tiny little cobblestoned side street in the Latin Quarter and ate at the tables out front on an amazingly beautiful Paris night.
First course: Poached Egg in a Spinach Cream soup with cubes of goat cheese covered in paprika – really really good
Second course: Braised Lamb shank stew type thing with a sauce and vegetables – so good
Dessert, Upside Down Apple Tart with Butter Gelato
2. Chez Juliet, Vielle Ville, Nice
Seafood “Stew” with wine sauce. It wasn’t really a stew but more shrimp, scallops, and fish in a really tasty thick creamy wine sauce with grilled veggies, and fresh baked bread. so yummy
3. Andrea’s Restaurant or something like that, Monterosso al Mare, Cinque Terre
First course: Homemade gnocchi with pesto sauce
Second course: Green Pepper Filet, a steak made with this amazing green peppercorn sauce and little green peppercorns on top. the restaurant was basically run by one guy who waited the tables, cooked the food and everything, he was so nice too. i asked him about what he used and he brought out the jar to me of the like pickled peppercorns he used and told me if it wasn’t his last jar he would have given it to me! I later found a smaller jar of them in a market in Pisa they are called “Pepe Verde”
4. Baggettes from Kayser Boulangerie, Cheese and fruit from little markets, Paris
This night we bought fresh bread and bought cheese and fruit and just sat out on the grass at Champs de Mars and watched the sunset on the Eiffel Tower waited for the lights to come on and then for the lights to twinkle, which they do for the first few minutes of each hour. See video below
5. Some Pizzaria, Vernazza, Cinque Terre
After doing the amazing 2 hour hike from our village to Vernazza, the neighboring one, we found a little pizza place with tables on the harbor.
Starter: Fresh mozzerella bruscetta
Main Course: Fresh wood oven baked pizzas, mine was salami, starla’s was a fresh made pesto pizza, both were ridiculously good.
6. Chez Hanna Falafel, La Marais, Paris
We headed to the Marais to eat at the famous L’as du Falafel that we had read so much about but upon arrival we found it shuttered for some unknown reason. There were two other places right down the street that had long lines down the street so we picked one and waited about 3o min for our falafel.
Falafel consisting of: Pita bread pocket, fresh hummus, some spicy red sauce, falafel, cabbage, other veggies, topped with a creamy white sauce.