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Napa Valley – Cliff’s Family Food Truck

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Man oh man. Just looking at this photo makes my mouth water again. Smoked mozzarella, basil, fresh firm tomatoes, freshly sun-dried tomatoes and a drizzle of olive oil. Yum.

I confess, this is the only dish I ate at Cliff’s Family Food Truck, and usually I aim to try more than one dish before giving a review. That said, this was so tasty that I wanted to sit and try everything on the menu. Alas, my life is hard and, had I stayed, my partner and I would have been late to our next wine tasting. So I’ll tell you what I do know.

The food was deliciously simple with exceptionally fresh, high quality ingredients. The smoking of the mozzarella paired with the sundried tomatoes exploded a technicolor palate of flavor in your mouth. While you wait for your food, which isn’t long because the truck chefs are fast, you get to sit out on a sunny patio under a gardened trellis, the sun trickling through. At the lunch hour, it was full, but still easy to find a seat amongst the 10 or so tables.

If you ever get a chance to make it out that way, I would highly recommend it. Oh! And if you try a different dish, like one of their tasty flatbreads, please let me know what you think!

Cheers from me to you! xoxo

Copenhagen – Nyboders Koekken

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Ah, Copenhagen. The land of delicious food at restaurants whose names I will never be able to pronounce. How I miss you already. Now, I stumbled upon Nyboders Koekken (furthermore referred to as NK) the usual way – strategic internet comparison searching. First thing to note, make a reservation online before you go. While it was fairly empty when I showed up at around 6:30pm, the place was packed by 8. With good reason.

NK’s specialty is Danish food like you might eat at home, but the best version of it. When I got to my dessert course, the waitress stopped and told me that she used to eat the same kind of strawberry porridge when she was a little girl. Apparently, when she started working at NK and saw it on the menu, she ordered it immediately. Once I had it, I understood why, but I get ahead of myself.

I started out with the “Classic prawn cocktail and toast melba,” which can be roughly translated to shrimp salad and (heavily) buttered toast. It was a perfect temperature – the toast piping hot and the shrimp chilled well – and was topped with caviar.

nyboderskoekken - prawn salad

Next up was the “Wienerschnitzel.” That shredded stuff on top was NOT cheese as I first thought. (Forgive me, the bartenders here are liberal with the Danish beer.) It was fresh shredded horseradish with capers and a spiced herring filet. In the pitcher was hot gravy to pour over your perfectly crispy veal steak.

nyboderskoekken-weinerschnitzel

Finally, I get to the “Danish traditional strawberry porridge.” It was essentially stewed strawberries, but that hardly does it justice. Once you poured the cold cream over the top, it tasted almost like strawberry ice cream but with two different temperatures and textures happening at once. 10 out of 10 would eat again.

nyboderskoekken - strawberry porridge

Alas, at this point, I ran out of room. *gasp* However, never fear dear readers, towards the end of the meal one of the waitresses informed me that “the whole kitchen” was impressed with my appetite. I’m fairly sure it was meant as a compliment. And with my compliment in tow, I rolled out of the very hyggelig restaurant to try to sleep it off at my AirBnb.

xoxo

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Nyboders Kokken

Address: Borgergade 134, 1300 Kobenhavn K, Denmark

Website: nyboderskoekken.dk