European Food and Travel Guides for Visitors
Europe, for me, is the sort of place where a day can be built around one very good bite: a Paris bakery, a Lisbon seafood lunch, a Sicilian street food stop, Swiss chocolate, Copenhagen snacks or a market detour that turns into the whole point of the trip. These are my Europe travel stories for finding delicious city breaks, road trips, cruises, bakeries, restaurants and small food obsessions worth crossing a few borders for.
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When I come to France, all I want to do is eat pastry. Should an immigration officer ask me my reason for entering France, I'll simply say "To eat pastry". Forget chocolate, I can always get good chocolate in Sydney, Tokyo, London or anywhere else I travel. However pastries like this are much harder to find. Poilâne is an institution, their sourdough bread of miche is said to be legendary. Using stone-ground flour, sea salt from Guérande and a wood-fired oven they set about conquering the world, one loaf at a time.
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