The quality and variety of food in Trieste is just wonderful and they don't rip folks off.
Café society is here in abundance after all Trieste is Italy's coffee capital and a really beautiful city and deep port.
This place is a coffee and doughnut bakery but I didn't want a doughnut, instead I opted for Mille - feuille and a few small, fruit tarts with my espresso macchiato - macchiato means mark or stain so in this case the stain is the texturised, heated milk on top.
Mille-feuille which is known as vanilla slice in the UK and Napoleon in the USA was delicious as were the small tarts. The last one I had was in a delightful French cafe in San Clemente California where it was Mille-feuille and not Napoleon.
So the way it usually plays out for us is that I find a coffee place while my wife goes shopping. When I get pastries we cut them in two and we can try out a few different varieties and it's all very pleasant. Doing this with great coffee in hot sunshine is an added bonus.
The service was friendly and prompt too.
Downtown Trieste was buzzing with locals as it's not yet a huge tourist destination. We spent a week there and had a great time.
I'm delighted to say that we are due to return here in November and as all time flies it won't be very long. And do remember we'll run out of time before we run out of money. read more