2. Texas Barbecue
Snow's, Texas
Run by a former rodeo clown and an
elderly lady named Tootsie, the
restaurant only opens on Saturday
mornings and consists of a small
number of tables around a smoking pit.
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3. Macaroons
Laduree, Paris
The original M Ladurée opened his bakery on the rue
Royale in 1862. In 1930 his grandson invented the
double-decker macaroon – two shells of the
meringue-like pastry held together by creamy
ganache filling.
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4. Fried potatoes
Bomba Bar Cova Fumada,
Barcelona
It's an ancient place, with a marble bar on which they
note down what you've had with chalk. Go for the
bomba, crushed potato balls with minced meat,
bread-crumbed and deep-fried with a spicy sauce.
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5. Chocolate cake
Pierre Herme, Paris
Made with blackcurrants and a chuao couverture fro
Pralus. It was a firework of aromas, temperatures an
textures. The freshness of the fruit flirted with the
roundness of the chocolate.
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6. Fish and chips
The Wee Chippy, Fife,
Scotland
The Wee Chippy, which serves sublime fish and chips
on the same street and without the endless queues.
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7. Milkshakes
Fosselman's, Los Angeles
The ingredients for the perfect milkshake are
extremely good ice cream mixed with just the right
amount of milk, and a classic American setting. The
milkshakes, made with home-made ice cream, taste
like you'd expect milkshakes to taste in the movies.
Make a beeline for the double-chocolate malt.
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9. Steak
El Carpicho, Jimenez de Jamuz,
Spain
Time magazine called it "the perfect steak". They were
referring to an enormous chuletón taken from the
central rib section of a 16-year-old Rubia Gallega ox,
dry-aged for 90 days, and served in the cellar dining
room of a rural bodega named El Capricho, near León
in north-west Spain.Niña Adrianne C. Daloyoc
10. Ice cream
Corrado Costanzo, Noto,
Sicilyt
The legend about Romans making the earliest ice
creams from the snows of Mount Etna may be
apocryphal, but Sicily is still the best place for frozen
treats in gelato-crazed Italy, and Italian ice cream, as
everybody knows, is the finest in the world.
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11. Strawberry tart
Restaurant de Bacon, Antibes,
France
The crust melts in the mouth, it is deliciously
flavoured with butter, and once you have finished it
you feel delightfully naughty.
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12. Hamburgers
Little Owl, New York
The meat, which is a signature blend from New York's
virtuoso hamburger maker Pat La Frieda, is perfectly
paired with a bun of uniquely moist and yielding
character. It's by far the best cheeseburger in this or
any other city.
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