Basel

We flew in to the Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport from Berlin using Easyjet. The Airport is located in France, but the closest city is Basel in Switzerland, then Mulhouse in France and Freiburg in Germany. A very central location for all 3 countries.

Flying around in Europe is so much cheaper and convenient than North America.

Scenic Basel pictures

 

 

A Chocolate tart from a local Basel Bakery on Eisengasse for 2,9₣ 

I searched the web for this tart (since it was relatively popular in Basel - we saw it in almost every bakery) - it's called a Carac and it's DELICIOUS! A Swiss pastry made using a pie crust then filled with soft chocolate and covered with green icing.

Chocolate shop - Sprüngli (http://www.spruengli.ch/?lang=en)

I bought a variety of Chocolate truffles:

  

There were rose, milk, pistache, cappuccino, boules, and a dark chocolate truffle.

The inside of the rose truffle

I didn't really like the truffles here. The rose was interesting, but I felt like I was eating a rosewater jam inside a milk chocolate outer coating. The pistache (which I thought I would really enjoy) failed to impress as well. The boule chocolate just tasted like a Ferrero Rocher and considering how much money I spent on the truffles (9.10₣), I felt kind of upset after.

Läckerli Huus (http://www.laeckerli-huus.ch/)

Plane ticket from Berlin to Basel: approx. 59€

Finding the Läckerli Huus with the famous Basler Läckerli bar and buying said bar: 2.60€

The Experience of Eating this Gingerbread Bar = Awful - it was disgusting! If you like gingerbread, you'll probably like this, but there's a weird like doughy aspect to it as well making it taste gross.

Grellinger (http://www.grellinger.ch/home)

We needed to get the taste of that awful bar out of our mouths and felt like we somehow needed to redeem Basel's food. So we went to Grellinger and bought two cakes:

Blueberry mousse and a Pear-Strawberry tart

The mousse was ok. The marshmallow topping was kinda different. The Pear-Strawberry Tart was great! The combination of the roasted almonds, pear slices, strawberry jam was quite good and it went together well. Definitely try out the sweets here! But there are other patisseries in Basel which offer the same types of things for less money (if you have time, you can do a little price comparison shopping - which is probably necessary since everything in Switzerland is expensive)

Conclusion: Basel was a hit and miss city for food. The prices for food here were much too expensive (even McDonalds was too pricey), we hoped to have more luck in Luzern and tried to tide ourselves over with sweet treats and as evident by the reviews above, some were good and some were bad.