The Best Street Food In Split, Or, The Cheapest Dinner We Had In Croatia

For dinner, we went to one of our more highly anticipated meals of the trip, a small takeaway restaurant named Kantun Paulina (Paulina's Corner).

First Maddy and I stopped at the next door bar for a drink, and Carol came along just a minute or two later.  

We carefully watched the line at Kantun Paulina -- sometimes it was long, and sometimes it short.  By the time we finished our drink, the line was once again short.

Maddy and I both ordered the cevapcici, a Balkan grilled meat on lepinja flatbread.  Carol had the chicken sandwich.  We ordered them with everything.  Because they needed some time to reload the chicken, I hung inside the shop, which became crowded once again.  They literally offer three different types of sandwiches.  

The cevapcici (also called a cevapi) is a sandwich of minced meat of lamb and beef.  With the tomatoes and onions added, it was a fantastic, and filling, meal.  Carrying our glasses of beer, and the plate of food, we walked a few blocks to Trg Gaje Bulata and sat on a stone wall, happily munching on our delicious food.

A meal doesn't have to be expensive to be delicious.  It was like our own episode of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.  And, as it should be, the food was the star.

The only downside was that the food was so tasty we forgot to take photos of the cevapcici or of us devouring it.  

We contentedly returned the glasses and plate (I can't imagine an American restaurant would allow customers to just walk away with glassware/plates and expect them to be returned.

Because the night was young and so is Maddy, we strolled along the marina and around to the gelateria around the corner from our apartment for dessert.  It was a fabulous coda to the day.  Nights like that night are special and will always be a happy memory.