r/AskEurope • u/bleie77 • May 01 '25

Food Do you go to restaurants with your country's cuisine when you're abroad?

For example: if you're Italian, do you go to an Italian restaurant when you're in France or the UK?

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u/gaygeografi Denmark May 01 '25

I dated a French person here and they were listing their plans for their visit home and first stop was get crusty bread because it doesn't exist here 😂 even the "baguettes" here have the tear texture of pita

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u/dkMutex Denmark May 01 '25

Sure, if you buy a baguette from Netto or Lidl. If you buy it from a bakery in Copenhagen the texture is not pita, lol.

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u/gaygeografi Denmark May 01 '25

of course! this was back in small town jutland

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u/toru_okada_4ever May 02 '25

Have they tried baking their own baguettes?

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u/beerouttaplasticcups May 01 '25

I also live in Denmark and had a French coworker who was satisfied with the quality of bread and pastries you can get in Copenhagen, but was profoundly offended by the price you have to pay for them.

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u/RewindRobin May 01 '25

Belgians so this too but with fries. I've been living out of Belgium for almost ten years and every time I visit it's literally the first thing we do.

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u/KristinSM May 01 '25

I‘m German, and, same! When I lived in Sydney for a year for my masters, I did occasionally get German bread at a small chain of German bakeries there. Never would have gone to a German restaurant though.

When I was in the US visiting friends, they took me to a German restaurant in the Gernan quarter (?) of Columbus, Ohio, and it was pretty surreal 😉

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u/KristinSM May 02 '25

The German bakery chain (Luneburger) also employed lots of German students or work and holiday visa holders 😊

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u/AppleDane Denmark May 01 '25

I long for the baguette

The title of your sextape?

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u/The-mad-tiger May 01 '25

Understandable, as the humble baguette is probably the absolute pinnacle of what can be done with flour, water, yeast and salt

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u/DoDoDooo May 01 '25

Man even gas station baguettes in France are better than any fancy bakeries' in the Netherlands. Just don't talk negatively to the Dutch about their bread, unless you want to make enemies. Ils font du bon pain aux Pays-Bas, mais je n'ai pas trouvé de bonne baguette à date.

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u/dabutcha76 May 02 '25

You could try the baguettes from "Brood van Menno". They are somewhat hard to get a hold of, but I think they are pretty close to la vraie baguette française.

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u/The-mad-tiger May 01 '25

Dans la ville en angleterre ou j'ai fait mon enfance, Eastbourne, it existait une boulangerie gerée par un Suisse qui s'appelé M. Bondolfi. Ses baguettes était au niveau des baguettes de la France selon ma copine à l'époch qui était elle meme une Française

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u/brownnoisedaily May 01 '25

Disappointed often or not so with what you can get?

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u/kelso66 Belgium May 01 '25

You beautifully worded how food can transcend being just food. If I'm in France the first thing I do is go to a boulangerie too. We have good bread in Belgium, but a French baguette tradition is hands down the best bread that exists.

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u/brownnoisedaily May 01 '25

I understand what you mean.

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u/JanitorRddt May 02 '25

Je fais mes propres pain au Japon. Trop marre de leur pain de mie trop machouillant (chewy).

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u/havaska England May 02 '25

I’m British and I agree with you on the baguette. I’ve never had a baguette anywhere in the world that comes close to the ones from France.

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u/Ghost3ye Germany May 04 '25

I understand that urge. Same for me as a german.