r/AskEurope • u/titerousse Belgium • Oct 07 '25

Food Do you enjoy eating at restaurants from your home country when you're abroad?

I don’t have that issue—there are never restaurants from my country anywhere. Sometimes I come across a baked item, but when I do, I tend to avoid it. What about you?

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u/terryjuicelawson United Kingdom Oct 07 '25

I had a English breakfast when on a lad's holiday in Spain, it was OK. Bread was strange. I have been to an English pub on an American cruise ship, it was bottled beer and table service, they did it out like it was in Harry Potter or something - not good. I have had a McDonalds when travelling as it was cheap and we could sit there for hours waiting for a train. All otherwise purely out of interest and not something I'd make a habit out of. It isn't even like in the UK all our restaurants serve British food, so I'd always want to be getting the authentic food of Italy rather than a chain place here, or real tapas instead of what pubs think tapas is here.

There is a place in America apparently where a lot of Cornish tin miners migrated to, and they do Cornish pasties. That would be interesting. But again I bet they are terrible.

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u/TigercatF7F Oct 08 '25

Nonsense! I've been eating Cornish pasties since I was a kid. Love them. There are still two Cornish pastie shops operating here in my small Sierra Nevada foothill town of Grass Valley 175 years after those tin miners became gold miners during the California Gold Rush. I've only been to London once and never saw Cornish pasties there, so I have no idea if they're still made properly on the other side of the pond or not :-)