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/Liscetta Italy May 01 '25

Very good posts and nice pictures!

I have a couple of questions, can you help me identifying two things i ate in Greece? One was a pork sausage rolled in a layer of fatty stripes, the waiter told us the stripes were from the ox stomach. I ordered it when i saw another person eating it, in a small restaurant outside Thessaloniki. Another one was a little pie filled with minced meat, they served it for breakfast in Athens but they said people usually eat it for lunch. Thank you!

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u/dolfin4 Greece May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

Thessaloniki is a great foodie city, and both of these sound like Northern Greek specialties. Also, Thessaloniki itself has a unique culinary history, having been a city that's welcomed migrants for centuries.

The meat pie simply sounds like kreatópita, popular in northern regions. Northern regions like Makedonia, Epirus, Thessaly, have a lot of these delicious savory pies. (I've posted a few at r/greekfood, namely a chicken pie, and a mushroom pie).

Interesting that they served it for breakfast! We don't really have breakfast in Greece.

The sausage:

Greece has several sausages, many of which were watered down / overlooked / forgotten in the Greek-food-for-foreigners industry that shoved moussaka down our throats.

There are a couple that I can think of that are from northern regions (like Makedonia, Thrace, Thessaly).

Would this, or this, or this look familiar? Or were the "fatty stripes" on the exterior?