The Secret Bakery

One of the things many people who’ve studied abroad here suggested I do is find a “secret bakery”. The directions to these bakeries are always very vague “it’s near this bar” or “it’s on this street”, but supposedly everything is 1 Euro. Well we finally found one on Monday night. We were told it was behind a certain bar, and that you had to knock on the front door and tell the man what you wanted. And that is about all of the directions we got. We started making a block around the bar until finally we smelled a mix of sugar and butter. We followed our noses to an open window. After peering in the window we could clearly see this was a bakery. We knocked on the window and a worker motioned us to the front door. We asked him to pick out his favorite things that had chocolate in them. The rumors were true! Everything was just 1 Euro, and it was AMAZING! The absolute best pastry I’ve had in Italy. I love this about Europe. The little things that you hear by word-of-mouth that absolutely make your day :)