Santa Margherita Food Quest

I came to Europe without any concrete plan (I get stressed out with too much planning, and since every weekend is usually a new location/destination/adventure I don't like to think about any of my trips until the weekend/wedding I have prior to it has been completed and taken care of.) plus I knew that Mrs. Katie is the Queen of Guidebooks and would have an itinerary all mapped out for us that we could follow.

And I was right.

We woke up in beautiful Portovenere...it was a gloomy day...

But we hopped in the car and headed toward a little town called Riva Trigoso or something where Katie and Semmes had "The Best Pizza of their Life" while they were here on their honeymoon a few years ago.

In case you're wondering exactly where we are...we are here:

Unfortunately said pizza place was closed (we got a late start and got there around 3pm and in Europe if you try to eat anywhere between the hours of 2pm and 6pm they look at you like you are CARAZY). So anyway, they were closed...but we did find this delightful pastry shop with AMAZING desserty snacks!

Don't you just LOOOOVE this cute little cake?

We had this Vanilla Crunchy Cake that was TO DIE FOR.

Then we drove a little farther to Santa Margherita, the gorgeous little town just next to Portofino...

Soy pretty!

Awwwwww...

We LOVES being a professional third wheel!

We wandered around the town a bit...waiting for places to start serving dinner.

There were ham shops...

And pasta shops... teasing us with our every move.

Finally we settled on this cute little bar that provided us with Lambruscos (chilled sparkly red wine that AnneOnoue turned me onto) and lots of snacks.

FINALLY they started taking dinner orders and we had this DELICIOUS DELICIOUS pasta.

It looks like boring normal pasta...but the texture and the taste is honestly unlike anything I've ever found anywhere in the stupid USA.

Because we are major obeses and wanted to experience as much as possible, we ate not one but TWO dinners. Literally we finished our pasta dishes and walked up the street to another of Katie's favorite restaurants to have their weird raw seafood dish...

Their pesto minestrone (pesto was invented in the area, and it is AWESOME)...

And some PESTO PASTA that Semmesey loved almost as much as he loves his little baby...