rate Baklava among pastries

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[Mammoth]

Very goddamn high

[AKAcronym]

Love em. One of my favorites, if not thee favorite, is pastel de nata, pasteis de nata, or whatever variation you want to use. It's a pastry out of Portugal that's ****ing amazing.

[club fighter]

Excellent subject!!! A food of my heritage and usually rated high with people just cause it's that good, a well designed idea that stood the test of time.

The real question is: What is the best Baklava?

Answer: Whether it's Greek or Turkish, it's the pistacio that is the highest level of this pastry. Walnut is most common a filling and that's just what it is, the dessert of the common folk. If you go to a Greek food shop you'll find the pistachio to be much more expensive which says it all. Worth every penny extra.

[MELLY-MEL...]

Pretty high, one of my faves

[hayZ]

Excellent subject!!! A food of my heritage and usually rated high with people just cause it's that good, a well designed idea that stood the test of time.

The real question is: What is the best Baklava?

Answer: Whether it's Greek or Turkish, it's the pistacio that is the highest level of this pastry. Walnut is most common a filling and that's just what it is, the dessert of the common folk. If you go to a Greek food shop you'll find the pistachio to be much more expensive which says it all. Worth every penny extra.

I've been to Turkey a number of times and to arguably the best place in Turkey for baklava - Karakoy Gulloglu.

I'm telling you...it's something else. Try Baklava with vanilla turkish icecream....it really is amazing. My favourite dessert combo OF ALL time.

The majority of baklava places here have the pastry far too hard, not enough syrup and not enough sugar. Turkey have it PERFECTED.

I love all baklava but my least favourite has to be the green one which has farrrrr too much pistachio to the point it can get overpowering.

[club fighter]

I love all baklava but my least favourite has to be the green one which has farrrrr too much pistachio to the point it can get overpowering.

Goes to show everybody's different, I won't even touch the walnut, I find it bland. I don't eat sweets very much so if I indulge, I go all the way with the expensive stuff.

Personally I prefer savory phyllo filled with meat, cheese or spinach instead, but then I don't have much of a sweet tooth.

[billeau2]

Excellent subject!!! A food of my heritage and usually rated high with people just cause it's that good, a well designed idea that stood the test of time.

The real question is: What is the best Baklava?

Answer: Whether it's Greek or Turkish, it's the pistacio that is the highest level of this pastry. Walnut is most common a filling and that's just what it is, the dessert of the common folk. If you go to a Greek food shop you'll find the pistachio to be much more expensive which says it all. Worth every penny extra.

Words to live by. BAD Baklava is horrid. It is soggy, sacharin sweet, and tasteless.

I have never has medium, ok Baklava and cannot really imagine it. Its not like pizza...I well remember bad school caf pizza that was not half bad...Even crappy dominoes pizza, is, or was fresh dough tosses, even if it never tastes like much and even if the cheese blend they use now taste like @33

I have had great Baklava and it is sublime. I had it as a kid in NYC when we would go to 10th avenue and buy it...Ive had it in, of all places, Lafayette Louisiana where the Greek restaurants are not bad at all.

Real Baklava you taste the nuts, the flakey dough and honey has flavors, every bite has texture, taste, and sweetness.

Club fighter you make an interesting point I assume must be so: I never realized that the nuts used was a major factor! With that said...where does one get the good stuff these days?

[billeau2]

Goes to show everybody's different, I won't even touch the walnut, I find it bland. I don't eat sweets very much so if I indulge, I go all the way with the expensive stuff.

Personally I prefer savory phyllo filled with meat, cheese or spinach instead, but then I don't have much of a sweet tooth.

You know... Pistachio and Walnut have very different flavors. I can see why that would make a difference. Pistachio is subtle but very very nice...Walnuts are great but not subtle by any means. In Louisiana they go to the Pecan. Pecans also have great flavor, but again, not really subtle.

I also like my pastry savory...And its a damn shame but in America it is seldom one can get a decent savory pastry. The Chinese have chain stores in Frisco where you can... and French places have croissants with ham and cheese, etc. But so many places you cannot find them.

[billeau2]

I've been to Turkey a number of times and to arguably the best place in Turkey for baklava - Karakoy Gulloglu.

I'm telling you...it's something else. Try Baklava with vanilla turkish icecream....it really is amazing. My favourite dessert combo OF ALL time.

The majority of baklava places here have the pastry far too hard, not enough syrup and not enough sugar. Turkey have it PERFECTED.

I love all baklava but my least favourite has to be the green one which has farrrrr too much pistachio to the point it can get overpowering.

Do they make a paste of the walnuts like you see here in America? I find this paste is overwhelming, as it is done here. My short term memory is shot to crap lol, but I still remember that when we got Baklava as kids in NYC, from the market on 10th ave, the taste and feel was really light. Full of flavor, but so very light...