Street food
 

Where in Europe do you think has the best street food vendors? The worst?
Our threads have lots of restaurant recommendations but little about eating on the run.

I like crepe in Paris and while Italy is more likely to have a hole in the wall (like Lo Zozzone in Rome) than a pushcart, I like "street food" in Roma and Sicilia. Genova has some hole in the wall fry shops and foccacie shops that are very good.

Waffles in Belgium can be fantastic, and herring in Amsterdam.

I couldn't stand currywurst in Berlin, but I did like doner kebab.

Gyros in Athens are divine.

I've never had good street food in London.

The black pudding bap vendors in Bury Market simply cannot be beaten.

Though there's a porchetta sandwich bloke in Orvieto market comes close.

And the seafood takeaways in the ground-floor retail bit of Aux Pecheurs d'Etaples in Etaples come a respectable third.

Frites in Belgium. Falafel in (surprisingly) Amsterdam.

Definitely frites in Belgium - esp the frites stand under the Bruges Belfry.

Crepes in France, but only if the crepes are freshly made (many stalls premake the crepe and just heat it up when you order)

Sausage with bread in Germany, however, I can only eat this no more than 2 days in a row.

Was sorry I didn't get to try Langos or Kürtőskalács in Hungary on this trip. :(

Oh, ice cream and/or gelato anywhere and everywhere!

zeppole - ditto about the herring in Holland. Just thinking about the matjes makes me want to go back. Also the poffertjes in Holland are wonderful. BaltoT - I agree about the falafal in Amsterdam. There is also some fine falafal in Paris.

Sometimes the "when" is just as important as the "where" - for me the best street food is definitely at Stuttgart's Weihnachtsmarkt. Wurst, kartoffeln, waffeln, crepes, struedel, dampfknoedel...and the setting can't be beat. Just thinking about it makes me all misty-eyed...

Gyros in Athens.

Could we have some pointers about finding the best falafel and herring on the streets of Amsterdam?

I like the vegtable cornish pasty from the Cornish Pasty company which used to be at Kings Cross but now have to be searched out in shops etc.

Austrian street Wurst can be the best but their mustard is always "milt" which means tasteless so you need tonnes of it.

Here's one:
http://www.venere.com/blog/amsterdam-falafel/

Also a chain called Maoz. We went to the one on Leidsestraat:
http://www.vegguide.org/entry/4485

Thanks baltotraveler!

Here is a link to Dutch Herring that may be of interest to you adventurous ones:

http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/295-ams...licacy-herring

I love it, eaten the old fashioned way; bought on the street from a vendor who swears it is "Nieuwe", and hands it to you on a square of waxed paper, with chopped onions, to be eaten right there.

Yum!

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After eating one of the delicious herring with onions have a stroopwaffle for dessert from another stand.

Where I am anchovies are prepared and eaten in similar fashion -- heads taken off, gutted and salted -- and they are addictive. I guess some of us just crave those Omega3s