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Inexpensive treats in Copenhagen?
New Yorker going to Copenhagen for a long weekend next month, have read the threads about restaurants but wondering if anyone has any recommendations for particular inexpensive food items -- something amazing at a particular bakery, a unique and delicious grocery store item, small shops worth visiting? Definitely planning on visiting the new Food Hall (any specific things not to miss there?) and looking for any other recommendations-- local, hole-in-the-wall, anything. Will have a kitchen where I'm staying, so stuff that needs to be cooked or refrigerated is fine too. Thanks!
ethnic/cheap/good near 46th and 2nd?
Expecting that it's not the right area to be looking for any of those three things, but... might be moving to 46th and 2nd, and was hoping someone could excite me about some of the nearby options. Loosely nearby -- don't mind a walk. Holes in the wall, authentic ethnic anything, unexpected surprises? I love a bunch of the Indian places on Lex/20s, but hoping for some other ideas -- esp. worthwhile Japanese (not necessarily sushi) or Thai.... Expecting the subway over to Queens may end up being the right choice for a lot of what I'll be looking for, but thought I'd try...
PLEASE POST YOUR VOTES HERE: Ultimate Los Angeles Restaurants 2008
Under $25:
Jitlada
Santouka (in Mitsuwa Market)
Taqueria Sanchez
Pizzeria Mozza
Sapp Coffee Shop
Best 'Dinner Rolls' in Los Angeles?
I believe they're bread rolls with some mochi incorporated into the dough so that they have a little bit of that mochi quality to them. They're in the front of the supermarket part, to the left of the cash registers, where the packaged sushi is. They're really good.
Best 'Dinner Rolls' in Los Angeles?
These may not work for Thanksgiving, but the Mochi Black Sesame rolls at Mitsuwa on Centinela are delicious.
Wild Strawberries?
Wondering if anyone knows where to find wild strawberries -- the little ones with a concentrated strawberry flavor, as opposed to the big ones at most of the farmers markets without much flavor at all. Thanks!
Italy Trip Report: Florence
I've never posted on Chowhound before, but I've used it a lot in NY to find restaurant recommendations. I'm actually in an Internet cafe in Florence right now, having just eaten lunch at Trattoria Zaza, and I felt compelled to post to say how terrible it was. My girlfriend and I feel like we completely wasted a meal in Italy. I ordered first the soup trio -- a taste of Ribollita, Tuscan tomato soup, and Pasta Fagiolo, and they all tasted like they came from a can and had been sitting around all day, they were lukewarm and just nothing compared to the Ribollita I had elsewhere earlier in the week -- and then the Caprese Salad, which was even worse. The tomato was horribly overripe, mealy, inedible -- instantly obvious without even taking a bite. All week we've had delicious tomatoes, and Zaza is right next to the main produce market overflowing with fresh fruits and vegetables, so we were expecting something much better, or at least something edible. When I complained, to their credit they took it off the bill, but, really, we're disappointed we wasted a meal here, and I wanted to post to warn others to stay away. My girlfriend had the salad with tuna and it was practically all iceberg lettuce, doused in what tasted like bottled french dressing. Just not worth wasting a meal here.
I do want to jump on the bandwagon about the gelato at Grom, though -- I took the recommendation here and it really was terrific. We went yesterday and went back again today. The extra dark chocolate, studded with little chocolate chips, was amazing, as was the flavor of the month, chocolate with orange -- dark chocolate with little pieces of candied orange peel.
Also want to recommend a place called Fish Restaurant, also near Central Market -- we went for their lunch special, priced at 5-7 euros, which was a lot less than the dinner prices, expecting nothing, but the fresh pasta with vegetables was about as good as it could be, and I had the risotto with a white fish sauce and it was terrific. The market has tons of fresh fish and so I expect they get it all from there and it was terrific.
