What’s the one European food everyone should try at least once?
August 18, 2025
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31 comments
Štruklji, obviously. I like them sweet, but they’re great as a sidedish too.
– Blood sausage (spanish morcilla)
– Escargot (french)
– Haggis (scottish)
– Surströming (Sweden’s deadly smelly fish canned food). Personally I would never eat that shit, but at least try it(?).
That would be the “try it before you hate it”, there are lots of European foods, and I know there is more xD
Easy: Döner: It´s like fast food, but you are eating meat in a bread with good junk of salad. It´s like your soul and body make peace with each other.
Scharf mit alles!
Reindeer meat with lingonberry sauce and mashed potatoes. It is heavenly. 🇫🇮
I would nominate Qifqi from Albania, which is similar to suppli from Italy. Essentially fried balls of rice and herbs. Tastes amazing.
Hagelslag. Chocolate or sugar sprinkles on a piece of bread to start your day in happiness.
Pita gyros, Neapolitan Pizza, a wiener schnitzel that’s bigger than your plate.
Sarmale (sour cabbage rolls). With mamaliga (polenta), sour cream and a chilli pepper 🤌
Quaddroformaggi spaghetti (sorry if I butchered that)
Italians are best at making food and it’s not even close.
Flammkuchen/ tarte flambée. It’s a kind of Pizza from the southern French-German border region. Very thin and crispy with sour cream and all kinds of toppings. It can even be sweet with apples for example.
For France I would have to say Raclette (also this is arguably from Switzerland) or Crêpes (sweet version) amd Galettes (salty version) and Fondue Bourguignonne.
Central European goulash, which is between soup and stew. Not that mac’n’cheese shit.
I liked a hungarian sort of sweet, it was like a cylinder
England/Britain (not knowing much about Northern Ireland, so excluding) has some of the absolute best puds. A personal favourite of mine, and one that’s very nostalgic, is summer pudding.
Čevapi and Burek from all the Balkan bros, and black risotto from Croatia..
My partner is Romanian and I am a huge fan of salam de biscuiți and cornulețe. Papanași and gogoși are great too.
On the savoury side, can’t not be recommending mici, similar to the Balkan cevapi I had in Bosnia and Montenegro but with a unique flavour that’s for sure. Although I am sacrilegious and have them with ketchup instead of mustard!
khinkhali. A soup filled dumpling from Georgia. Know the eating technique first otherwise you will wear it.
Norway🇳🇴
We have a special dish called «kook oust». It consists of 5 different tails of animals in a soup. It is surprisingly good. You have some tails that «everyone» uses, such as cow, pig, white/red fish, etc. But you have local variations of for example donkey, reindeer and even beavers.
Smørrebrød. Danish open-faced sandwiches on rye bread. When done well, they are phenomenally delicious pieces of art.
I can’t decide between lasagna and moussaka. Take your pick.
I don’t know where you come from and I’m too lazy to check your profile, but I want to let you know that only in the EU there is 27 different countries, with their own culture, language and of course cousine.
Some of other comment suggest “pizza”,”gyros” or “wiener schnitzel”, but the first is from Italy, the second from Greece e the third from Austria.
You cannot get the “real” neapolitan pizza in Athens as well you cannot get the real Gyros in Rome.
If you have a full year to travel between all the european country you should absolutely try the local cousine, but be aware that in most of our countries local cousine change radically from city to city.
I’m Italian from Florence in example, and here we have a total different cousine respect Rome.
The same is valid in Germany, Austria, UK, France and Spain, all of this coutries have different great local recipe that are consumed almost only in some specific regions.
Foie Gras in France. Specifically in Bordeaux where the majority of it is produced.
Lithuanian fried bread is the best beer snack in the world.
Rye bread, fried, coated in garlic, served hot with cheese sauce. Crispy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside. Available in all bars in Lithuania, it’s our national snack.
Good Belgian/Dutch fries. Why does barely any country have good fries? Even in Europe finding good fries is really hard in most countries.
Ćevapi, burek, sarma, filana paprika, kotlovina, purica s mlincima, škampe na buzaru, peka, spit roasted lamb or pork..
Flemish Carbonnade is the best stew in the world.
Polish Zurek is the best soup. Bar none. Only tried making it after reading about it in the Witcher 🙂
Maltese Rabbit Stew is magnificent.
Jugged hare in Italian wine is a northern Italian specialty that is unbelievable.
Hot smoked ocean salmon from western Ireland, boiled new potatoes, Irish butter & sea beet leaves.
Kouign Amann – butter, sugar, layered pasrty dough, butter, sugar, did I mention butter?
Surströmming. You have to have a stomach and nostrils made of iron to eat that stuff! The putrid smell made me gag and I threw up after one bite. There wasn’t enough beer to get rid of that taste in my mouth! 🤮
31 comments
Štruklji, obviously. I like them sweet, but they’re great as a sidedish too.
– Blood sausage (spanish morcilla)
– Escargot (french)
– Haggis (scottish)
– Surströming (Sweden’s deadly smelly fish canned food). Personally I would never eat that shit, but at least try it(?).
That would be the “try it before you hate it”, there are lots of European foods, and I know there is more xD
Easy: Döner: It´s like fast food, but you are eating meat in a bread with good junk of salad. It´s like your soul and body make peace with each other.
Scharf mit alles!
Reindeer meat with lingonberry sauce and mashed potatoes. It is heavenly. 🇫🇮
[Pizza con le patate](https://blog.giallozafferano.it/valeriaciccotti/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_9922.jpg) (potato pizza). Very, very common in Italy, but almost unheard outside Italy. Most of the times, it is just pizza base and potatoes on top (+ salt and rosemary), but common add ons are mozzarella and/or sausage.
I would nominate Qifqi from Albania, which is similar to suppli from Italy. Essentially fried balls of rice and herbs. Tastes amazing.
Hagelslag. Chocolate or sugar sprinkles on a piece of bread to start your day in happiness.
Pita gyros, Neapolitan Pizza, a wiener schnitzel that’s bigger than your plate.
Sarmale (sour cabbage rolls). With mamaliga (polenta), sour cream and a chilli pepper 🤌
Quaddroformaggi spaghetti (sorry if I butchered that)
Italians are best at making food and it’s not even close.
Flammkuchen/ tarte flambée. It’s a kind of Pizza from the southern French-German border region. Very thin and crispy with sour cream and all kinds of toppings. It can even be sweet with apples for example.
For France I would have to say Raclette (also this is arguably from Switzerland) or Crêpes (sweet version) amd Galettes (salty version) and Fondue Bourguignonne.
Central European goulash, which is between soup and stew. Not that mac’n’cheese shit.
I liked a hungarian sort of sweet, it was like a cylinder
England/Britain (not knowing much about Northern Ireland, so excluding) has some of the absolute best puds. A personal favourite of mine, and one that’s very nostalgic, is summer pudding.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/summerpudding_90295
Probably the most famous pudding we have is sickly toffee pudding. I used to avoid this one, for reasons I do not understand, but it’s glorious too.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/ultimate-sticky-toffee-pudding
Čevapi and Burek from all the Balkan bros, and black risotto from Croatia..
My partner is Romanian and I am a huge fan of salam de biscuiți and cornulețe. Papanași and gogoși are great too.
On the savoury side, can’t not be recommending mici, similar to the Balkan cevapi I had in Bosnia and Montenegro but with a unique flavour that’s for sure. Although I am sacrilegious and have them with ketchup instead of mustard!
khinkhali. A soup filled dumpling from Georgia. Know the eating technique first otherwise you will wear it.
Norway🇳🇴
We have a special dish called «kook oust». It consists of 5 different tails of animals in a soup. It is surprisingly good. You have some tails that «everyone» uses, such as cow, pig, white/red fish, etc. But you have local variations of for example donkey, reindeer and even beavers.
Highly recommended!
Pink soup
[pink soup](https://youtu.be/K1NCVvZy0H4?si=dyYCeUagEUjVj-Yv)
Poffertjes ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poffertjes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poffertjes))
Smørrebrød. Danish open-faced sandwiches on rye bread. When done well, they are phenomenally delicious pieces of art.
I can’t decide between lasagna and moussaka. Take your pick.
I don’t know where you come from and I’m too lazy to check your profile, but I want to let you know that only in the EU there is 27 different countries, with their own culture, language and of course cousine.
Some of other comment suggest “pizza”,”gyros” or “wiener schnitzel”, but the first is from Italy, the second from Greece e the third from Austria.
You cannot get the “real” neapolitan pizza in Athens as well you cannot get the real Gyros in Rome.
If you have a full year to travel between all the european country you should absolutely try the local cousine, but be aware that in most of our countries local cousine change radically from city to city.
I’m Italian from Florence in example, and here we have a total different cousine respect Rome.
The same is valid in Germany, Austria, UK, France and Spain, all of this coutries have different great local recipe that are consumed almost only in some specific regions.
Foie Gras in France. Specifically in Bordeaux where the majority of it is produced.
Lithuanian fried bread is the best beer snack in the world.
Rye bread, fried, coated in garlic, served hot with cheese sauce. Crispy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside. Available in all bars in Lithuania, it’s our national snack.
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/ye3c2qjlxk4.jpg
Good Belgian/Dutch fries. Why does barely any country have good fries? Even in Europe finding good fries is really hard in most countries.
Ćevapi, burek, sarma, filana paprika, kotlovina, purica s mlincima, škampe na buzaru, peka, spit roasted lamb or pork..
Flemish Carbonnade is the best stew in the world.
Polish Zurek is the best soup. Bar none. Only tried making it after reading about it in the Witcher 🙂
Maltese Rabbit Stew is magnificent.
Jugged hare in Italian wine is a northern Italian specialty that is unbelievable.
Hot smoked ocean salmon from western Ireland, boiled new potatoes, Irish butter & sea beet leaves.
Kouign Amann – butter, sugar, layered pasrty dough, butter, sugar, did I mention butter?
Surströmming. You have to have a stomach and nostrils made of iron to eat that stuff! The putrid smell made me gag and I threw up after one bite. There wasn’t enough beer to get rid of that taste in my mouth! 🤮