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Happy bar and grill Sofia
12 Reviews I have a love/hate relationship with the Bulgarian (established Varna 1994) restaurant chain Happy. I love the food, I love the ambience and I love the prices but I hate how easy it is to eat at...
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happy bar and grill Plovdiv
4 Reviews This is a local chain that I ate in once in Plovdiv and once in Sofia. Indoor and outdoor seating. They advertise Italian, but I enjoyed their salads very much. They also serve full meals with meat...
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Divaka Sofia
5 Reviews The food was amazing, in large portions, and cheap. English menus are available. Our waitress was very nice, and patient (she spoke no English and we spoke no Bulgarian!). When you enter there are...
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puldin Plovdiv
3 Reviews Perhaps the place to be. Located in the heart of the old town and build on the foundations of the Roman fortifications. In the cellar you can see parts of the old walls. The resaturant’s house has a...
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BG food Sofia
12 Reviews I liked Sofia cafes. There you can meet local people, workers, traders, taxi drivers, students, whole families with children, hikers, old ladies with an aristocratic look, in a word: a whole humanity!...
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Chuchura Plovdiv
2 Reviews With my dinner companion for the evening being one of Plovdiv's most charming, educated and beautiful young women my experience of Chuchura was kinda skewed. It's only the fact that I took some pics...
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UGO - pizza Sofia
5 Reviews It is a good place to to eat at lunch time. Prices are reasonable, the food is OK and the service is more or less quick enough. I often go there during my lunch breaks. Don't go there in the evening...
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chevermeto Plovdiv
2 Reviews This used to be the best place in Plovdiv before they change the name and the owner. Now it is aslo good cause they kept the interior and didn't change the music style. I like it cause it is not...
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Hadjidraganovite kashti Sofia
6 Reviews This restaurant was recommended in all three sources I was using, In Your Pocket, the Eyewitness Guide to Bulgaria and Wikitravel plus it was really close to our hotel so we went here for our 2nd...
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the alafrangues Plovdiv
4 Reviews This is a hotel with a restaurant, but I haven't been in the hotel, so I don't have opinion about it. I can say the restaurant is very good-the style and food are really amazing. The house is very...
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Vodenitsata Sofia
5 Reviews Located at the foothills of Vitosha mountain "Off the beaten path " ,among fresh green forest and mountain air, the Vodenitzata is a folklore complex in an old water mill with an open air garden just...
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bulborg pub house Plovdiv
1 Review Enjoy the warmth and friendly people you will always find at Plovdiv's "Bulborg Pub House". It is a favorite gathering spot for active people. Its location is very convenient ... You will enjoy our...
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Pri Yafata Sofia
4 Reviews This review and the one for Simova Takashta will be identical. Both were difficult to find because this Yank's eyes couldn't translate the cyrillic alphabet. Both restaurants offer traditional...
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VICTORIA - Tsar Osvoboditel Sofia
3 Reviews The restaurant has a fantastic selection of pizza, pasta and salad dishes. The prices were very good for the quantity and quality of the food. This was served promptly by friendly staff. You can eat...
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Machu Pikchu Sofia
3 Reviews The place is nice and in the heart of the city centre. The food is delicious and the service is good. Looks a bit strange both the facade and the interior. Outside the building is painted in yellow...
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Checkpoint Charly Sofia
3 Reviews In general it is a nice place to go although a bit overpriced . Good food, good service, nice selection fo wines and very nice interior. There is a guy who plays live on his guittar. The music is...
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Onda Coffee Break Sofia
4 Reviews It is something between a coffehouse and a fast food place. Slef-service. Very nice atmosphere. Conteporary style interior plus ethno music from all ove the world. There is a variety of coffee...
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O!Shipka - Boudapest Sofia
3 Reviews I discovered the O!Shipka restaurant thanks to Kristian, a friend I met via CouchSurfing. He took me there to show me a typical Bulgarian restaurant and let me taste some traditional food. I liked it...
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Pizza TROL Sofia
3 Reviews A slightly more upmarket place for when I wanted to spoil myself. They do make good coffee! Coffee anywhere in Bulgaria is good. I had to learn to ask for "Espresso mlyako toplo (hot milk) to...
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Jepeto Sofia
2 Reviews It is a pizza place with a nice yard where you can sit in a hot summer night :) There is also an indoors part with quite a big aquarium. The foor is good but waitresses are a bit slow and absent...
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Beyond the alleY, Behind the Cupboard Sofia
3 Reviews Beyond the alleY, Behind the cupboarD - I'm not joking, that's the name of a lovely and relaxing small restaurant in a narrow street not far from Sofia's heart. It's a restaurant and a café at the...
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Jadnata Lamia (The thirsty dragonness) Sofia
2 Reviews Actually I wrote dragonnes because I did not know how to translate "lamia" in English. It means female dragon :) My overall impression of the pub is good. There is a nice yard, the fod is delicious...
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Jimmy's Sofia
2 Reviews Ice-cream houses. All kinds of desserts with ice-cream: melba (mix of ice-creams with fruits, cream and biscuits), gaufrette with ice-cream, pancakes with ice-cream, cocktails with ice-cream, coffee...
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Romance Sofia
2 Reviews Romance is a sweets shop in the outskirts of Vitosha, in Simeonovo which is about 20-30 min by car from the centre of Sofia. Basically, once you are on the Vitoshki Ezera street you can not miss it....
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Pizza - Italia Sofia
2 Reviews 24 April 04 If you want a GOOD meal try this place ! its a few hundred yards from the roundabout near the Rodina Hotel in Skobelev Blvd towards the National palace of culture ( NDK to locals ) the...
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NONE...if you go to your local supermarket and look real hard you might find a semi decent bottle of Bulgarian wine however if you go to Bulgaria you'll get something that only looks like wine (im being polite here)Food is not much better,fancy pickles for every meal including breakfast, not nice, even the airline served them.Trust me its unique!!!!! toothpaste
My favourite restaurant is placed in the center of Plovdiv and it's called 'Pileto' (The Chicken). As you understand it has only dishes with chicken. It is quite cheap for westerners and it has a beautiful interior.Ask anyone near the Central Post Office of Plovdiv for the exact location. General Gurko St. Speciality of the Chef - Good price (~USD3), great taste and sufficient quantity.
Almost every restaurant offers both Bulgarian and European meals. As to methods of preparation, Bulgarians have favoured stewing, roasting, boiling and the earthenware dish. The roasting of food on charcoal embers is also widespread. This method lets the meat save its juices, what makes dishes very succulent and tender. Sometimes the stew or casserole are delivered on the table in a lidded brown crock (gyuvech).
Bulgaria is a country with strong traditions. National Bulgarian cuisine has three very special food items:- white cheese - it is a brined cheese, produced from sheep or cows milk, both used on the table and as an essential part of other meals;- chubritsa - this herb grows well upon Bulgarian soil. It shares certain characteristics with Oregano. The dried leaves are crashed and sprinkled on meals;- yoghurt or 'kiselo mlyako' - can be purchased in many different grades and qualities. The most common commercial brand is 'Danone' (literally meaning is funny 'da'='yes', 'no'='but', 'ne'='no').
Troughout Bulgaria you will find catering establishments of different categories serving different foods:renowned luxury restaurants, taverns which serve national cuisine, restaurants serving foreign cuisine, fast food outlets, pizzerias, numerous cafés and pastry shops, entertainment spots, etc. Menus are usually printed in both Bulgarian and English. Restaurants stay open from 11a.m. to midnight, but may work round the clock.
Most of the locals restaurants will have good food. We drank bottled water, as our Bulgarian hosts recommended in the smaller towns. Even in the smallest towns, a local restaurant proved to serve a very good meal. The meat might be a tad tougher, but the flavor and wines were a pleasant surprise. Deserts were excellent! Loved the salads!!! I still can't get over how good the salads were. The abundance of good cheesses', meats and fresh veggies in the salads were a taste treat! The wines were surprisingly good as well.I didn't have one mediocre meal in a week's worth of traveling.
The Bulgarian 'culinary' geography abounds in delicious specialties and exotic dishes: Bansko-style kapama (meat and vegetables stewed in an earthenware dish), Rhodope cheverme ( lamb roasted on a spit over an open fire), Thracian katmi ( a special type of pancake) and Dobroudjanska banitsa, Danube fish soup and Sozopol-style mussels. The cosy, typically Bulgarian folk-style restaurants will tempt you with Shopska salad and chilled grape brandy, stuffed vine leaves or peppers, kavarma the Miller's Way, monastery-style hotchpotch, moussaka and kebab. The smell of oven-fresh bread rolls is mixed with the fragrance of savoury. Thinly sliced loukanka (flat dry sausage) from Smyadovo, pastarma, feta and yellow cheese are temptingly arranged on ceramic plates. The delicate white wines Dimyat, Misket and Riesling are followed by full reds such as Merlot, Cabernet and Gamza. Cups of steaming...
Bulgarian food has remained very traditional. The cheese and bread everywhere is great, and each place makes a different type. Visit Rousse, on The Danube, it is clean and fun, as well as sports very well kept old buildings.
Sunny Beach have alot of restaurants to offer you good food, and it's not expensive at all. Or what do you say about a starter and main course and a glass of wine for about 6€. Or a large beer (Kamenitza or Zagorka (the local beer)) for 0.5€. La Perla was my favourite restaurant during my stay in Sunny Beach.
The restaurant is styled like a village yard and there is a folk show which starts at 9 pm. I would advise getting there by 8.15pm if you want a good table. It's good value for money. A meal for 4 including drinks and the show cost us £23.00 Mixed grill
Grand Hotel Sofia Sofia
6 Reviews and 104 Opinions I also stayed here on business and was very happy with the accomodations. The fitness facilities...
Splendid Hotel Varna
1 Review and 38 Opinions The hotel is just across the road from Varna Cathedral, its name is Splendid and that sums it it...
Trimontium Princess Hotel Plovdiv
6 Reviews and 57 Opinions this hotel is a part of famous Turkish hotel chain "Dedeman" They have many hotels in Bulgaria...
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Q: Could someone help us ? we are traveling by train from Plovdiv to Sofia, then Sofia to Veliko Tarnovo. How many train are there...
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