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. Nia Adrianne C. Daloyoc
3. Macaroons Laduree, Paris The original M Ladure 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. Nia Adrianne C. Daloyoc
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. Nia
Adrianne C. Daloyoc
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. Nia Adrianne C. Daloyoc
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. Nia Adrianne C. Daloyoc
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. Nia Adrianne C. Daloyoc
8. Fossilmans Ice Cream Profile Nia Adrianne C. Daloyoc
9. Steak El Carpicho, Jimenez de Jamuz, Spain Time magazine
called it "the perfect steak". They were referring to an enormous
chuletn 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 Len in north-west
Spain.Nia 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. Nia Adrianne C. Daloyoc
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. Nia
Adrianne C. Daloyoc
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. Nia Adrianne C. Daloyoc