Desserts Worth Mentioning: Bratislava

Traveling alone doesn´t get me into the finer restaurants too often. For one, I don´t feel much need to go and spend lavishly on food if I´m eating solo – it just seems like a bit of a waste. Thus far on the trip I´ve really only partaken in two or three nice sit down meals. The first was in Rome after running into fellow solo traveler Julia from D.C., and the second was a nice lunch in Menza with my couch surfing host Dani along the historic central street of Budapest. Yesterday in Bratislava I was wandering around with Juan, a friend of a friend who I met at the Vienna Tiramisu Cookoff Challenge, and we found a little restaurant to pass some time.

I´d already partaken in a lovely Kebab sandwhich on the one hour train ride over from Vienna, so I wasn´t too hungry for a real lunch. This presented itself as a wonderful opportunity to partake in some exotic dessert from Slovakia. Now, speaking no slovakian, and purley reading off the English translations on the menu, I discovered something called “Marasilla with Wild Berries,” which sounded both interesting, culturally unique, and deliscous. Now, I´m not sure if it´s authentic Slovakian dining, but it was pretty darn tasty.

The center, or what I perceive to be the marasilla portion of the dish was a cool ball of cream, covered in a gram cracker coating concotion of sorts. In the center of the cream was a fruity jam, peach or apricot from the sense of my fairly ignorant pallate.  The straightforwardness of the cream and center were then balanced by the sweetness of the wildberries that surrounded it, of black, blue and rasp in nature.

So if you find yourself spending an afternoon in Bratislava, head over to old town and seek out Prasna Basta, and have a taste of their Marasilla.  It´ll definitely put a smile on your afternoon.