With no menu and no sign, this 130-year-old taverna doles out affordable home cooking.
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Places to Eat & Drink
Athens, Greece
Diporto
Belém, Brazil
Mercado Ver-o-Peso
This massive waterfront market is located at the "gateway to the Amazon."
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
The Hebert Candy Mansion
This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.
Milan, Italy
Bar Basso
Sip a Negroni Sbagliato in the bar that invented it.
Food & Drink
Prepared Foods
Maultaschen
Legend has it that a monk hid meat in these dumplings to fool God.
Drinks
Pont
A town in East France still makes a beloved green-anise liquor born after the ban of absinthe.
Sweets
Lancashire Courting Cake
Before dating apps, young people used this cake to express their feelings.
Sweets
Flódni
This multi-layered treat has become a potent symbol of Hungarian-Jewish identity.