Selky Dvur - Peach Flambe - Dolni Lisna, Czech Republic

Unfortunately, the flambe was done in the kitchen and not at my table, but once it was in my mouth, I didn't care.

Hospudka Obycejny Svet - Salmon with Dill Cream Sauce

Way too much dill cream sauce, but boneless and fresh tasting. (Notice I said "tasting" because I think all of the fish is frozen.)

Restaurace Putna - Fish and Chips

Hey! No bones! Or, well, only a few anyway.

Restaurant Di Sherry - Spinach Pizza

Super thin crust seems to be typical here. It's hard to get pizza wrong, so it's no surprise that this was tasty.

Vejoudoua - Fettucine with Tomato, Garlic, and Basil

I ate this entire thing. It was good.

3+3+3 - Fried Edam Cheese

This was okay. The slaw (one sweet, one sour) blended well with the salty cheese. The service at this place was atrocious. I will never go back.

Cafe Del Sole - Tuna Ciabatta

Hard bread and soggy fish and tomatos even themselves out.

The Country Life - Carrots and Green Beans, Barley with Spinach Sauce, Oat Patty

This is a vegan buffet restaurant, just around the corner from studio. All of that food cost 80 krowns (about $3). It doesn't look appetizing, but it's very flavorful and filling. Not to mention healthy and cheap! I want a branch of this German chain in Raleigh.

Victor Prodleff - Gratined Potatoes with Vegetables

Very disappointing. The cheese and vegetables were good, but the potatos were steamed.

Hospudka Obycejny Svet - Baked Apple

This has to bake for ten minutes on a side, but it's difficult to wait until it's done because it smells wonderful the whole time.

Hospudka Obycejny Svet - Spinach Potatos with Bechamel Sauce

A whole bushel of baby spinach, creamy with onions, mushrooms, roasted garlic. A thick Cream of Spinach, Potato, and Mushroom stew.

Rudolfova - Trout with Tomato Sauce and Crab Meat

The trout was only okay. The crab meat was awful: straight from a can. Bleh. The potatos were covered in cajun spices, but were slightly soggy.

Hospudka Obycejny Svet - Baked Mad-Apple

So "Mad-Apple" is eggplant. I don't know if they mean mad as in crazy or as in angry. This was a soupy eggplant parmesan with chunks of garlic and onion and sour cream garnish.

Blatnice - Hot Raspberries and Ice Cream

So gooooood.

Blatnice - Grilled Trout with Lemon and Butter Sauce

Oh my god a full fish appeared in front of me. I had to learn how to eat it quick. The lemon butter sauce was perfect.

Comtessa Restaurant - Raspberry Jello Cheesecake

Raspberries, yes. Jello, no. Cheesecake, no. so why did this work so well together? I think the revoltingness of the Jello and Cheesecake cancelled each other out.

Tesco - 3 Krown Beer (12 cents)

Okay, not technically a meal, but this is my cheap beer.

Rudolfova - Potato Pancake with Cheese

This is a big, greasy, salty, oniony quesidilla but with a potato pancake instead of a tortilla. Lots of cheese, too.

Domov Mladeze - Yogurt Day

This is one of three rotating breakfasts at my hotel. There is a question of whether the yogurt (in this case cappuchino flavored) is actually yogurt or if it's really sour cream. The triangle wedge is a soft cheese. The silver square is cream cheese. The other two pats are butter and jam. You get only one basket of bread with exactly three pieces of dark bread and one free drink (choice of "juice"--it's Tang--tea and coffee).

Eet Tuin - Filled Courgettes, Hazelnut Parfait - Amsterdam, Netherlands

A courgette is a zucchini by another name, apparently. These were hollowed out and filled with spinach, cheese, pinenuts, garbanzo beans, red peppers, and corn and then baked. The zucchini was mellow, buttery, it's preparation a hint of fall to the summery red peppers, spinach, corn, and tomato pesto. It was good for what it was, but it didn't make me excited.

Now the hazelnut parfait (frozen custard) rocked. Sliced almonds, amaretto, fresh whipped cream, black and white chocolate shavings... Heaven.

Grand Potato - Patats with Mayonnaise - Amsterdam, Netherlands

Double-fried french fries smothered in Dutch mayonnaise (not as tart as American) and only a bit of salt. I lived on these. And the medium is only 2 euros.

Chinese House - Shrimp in Spicy Sauce, Vegetable Samosa, Fried Crab Ball - Paris, France

I thought I'd try something non-Parisian. I hate regret.

The shrimp sauce wasn't spicy, but the shrimp were edible, if not great. The "samosa" was a soggy, triangular egg roll. Greasey shredded cabbage and carrots does not a samosa make. The worst was definitely the "crab" ball with peas. I expected to find crab meat in the middle, but instead there were microscopic red flecks, that I can only assume was it. There was a disgustingly overwhelming baking powder aftertaste. It sucks that this crap cost 7.41 euros.

Musee d'Orsay Cafe - Tuna and Egg Sandwich - Paris, France

The baguette was very soft. The tomato, tuna, and hardboiled egg were as one would expect, not too dry, not too wet. Above all, they were filling.

Le Bistro 30 - French Onion Soup, Salmon in Bearnaise, Apple Tart with Ice Cream - Paris, France

This was my big fancy French dinner for only 15 euros!

The soup was more delicate in flavor than previous versions I had had. I loved the soggy chunks of bread inside the soup with the melted cheese on top. Not too salty, the flavors intensified as it cooled. It was difficult to eat with decorum, because of the super stringy cheese.

The rosemary-crusted salmon was tender and refreshing. The bearnaise was slightly bitter. The egg noodles were tossed only in butter and therefore perfect as a side. It's hard to believe that this fish and the substance in that nauseating sandwich in London came from the same species.

The apple tart was almost like a thin quiche. It lay in a mixed puddle of chocolate sauce and vanilla custard sauce (?) with whipped cream and ice cream as garnish. Far from too rich or too sweet, it was gentle, despite the slight shock between cold and room temperature. The creamy crust never turned to dry crumbs in the throat.

Khedive Opera - Cheese Omelette - Paris, France

Juicy but not soggy, salty and light with plenty of texture. The best omelette ever. The cheese must have been mixed into the batter. Only 5.20 euros.

Creperie - Egg, Cheese, and Tomato Sauce Crepe - Paris, France

In Portland, Oregon there is a little kiosk, in an upscale grocery store, called French Wrap where they make fresh crepes to order while you watch. The crepes themselves, buckwheat salty or white sweet, are impossibly thin and elastic. My favorite salty crepe was filled with fresh baby spinach, roma tomatoes and fresh mozzarella. (I am a sucker for these three ingredients.) The best sweet crepe was bananas soaked in rum, drizzled in chocolate, and topped with fresh whipped cream.

So how excited was I to go to Paris, the home of the fresh crepe? Right, and ripe for disappointment, too. This creperie was run by a Tunisian, which should have been a clue, maybe. The crepes were premade in a stack and reheated when you ordered. This made them tough and even crunchy in places. The egg in the egg and cheese crepe was beaten and poured on thin on top of the reheating crepe. Shredded cheese was sprinkled on next (it mostly didn't melt) and then a thick layer of spaghetti sauce on top of that. So unappetizing.

The chocolate and banana crepe was too sweet. The chocolate was actually melted Nutella, which is like cake frosting. Bleh. The whipped cream was out of a can.

The meal was edible, but bad.

Later on in the week, I had a good crepe from a stand along the Champs-Elysee who knew what they were doing. I videotaped him making my Grand Marnier crepe which took less than a minute. It was only a simple dessert crepe sprinkled with sugar and doused with liquor. Fabulous.