Timisoara Restaurants

A lovely , well maintained restaurant and coffee shop and confectioners spread over several floors which has the possibility to hire out rooms or entire floors for functions or weddings.

They are serving traditional banat food and cakes as well as more international dishes and even exclusive cuisine like emu and wild boar

The tableware and linnen is of a high quality and I feel that always says a lot.

The waiters are very helpfull and the menu is available in several languages you just have to ask.

The meals we chose were very different from anything we had had before but we both thoroughly enjoyed our food and there was plenty of it ...neither of us could quite finish (unusual for me) and we did not even consider a dessert!

Favorite Dish: I dont have a favorite as yet but as I go back more I will let you know...I will defintely be trying the cakes next time!

As always a local Sushi review!

The Sushi was good and there was a large range to choose from including some we had never heard of before (but that could be due to translation and personal opinion of course )

The rice was nicely done and everything we ate was very fresh which is a must !

There are other things on the menu aprt from sushi...but we didnt really look at those

There seemed to be plenty of places to sit and the waiter we had was helpfull and attentive without being overbearing ...service was quicker than I had expected as sometimes you must wait a while for Sushi to be made to order

Be aware that smoking is still allowed inside so ask to be seated in the no smoking area if thats what you want

Favorite Dish: Sushi!

As the hotel breakfast was served untill 10 am and I usually woke up later, I had to find another place to eat something. Bars have some really nice cakes, but my favourite breekfats became the fried sandwiches they give in the stalls of victory square, they are simply delicious specially, if like me you prefer a salty breakfast than a sweet one.

Favorite Dish: Fried sandwiches.

This is one of the many bars that overlooks Victory square. Here you can both have breakfast, an icecream or a real meal.
I came here just to have coffe as it was the best in town, not as good as in Belgrade but still a decent espresso.

Favorite Dish: Illy espresso.

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Though the name sounds italian this is not an italian restaurant, it has some italian dishes in the men nu but all the staff is romanian and romanian are the main dishes of the menu.
It's in the heart of the city just next to Victory square.

Favorite Dish: Ciorbas, romanian soups are definitly their specialites but the best dishes I had were: chiken liver and tripe both were really excellent and not so common to find in a menu, but if you want they also have pizza or frnch fries.Their local timisoreana beer is just ok.

Karadjordje is a very interesting, "cellar-type" restaurant. As soon as you walk downstairs, you are greeted with what sounds like Serbian manele...it's very good!! :) You may have a difficult time choosing what to order because there are so many options. I recommend trying the Schnitzel with french fries...it's some of the best I've ever had. The Karadjordje Sword, a kebab with 5 types of meat, is another good option. Also, the Serbian salad is really good too. There is only one menu item to watch out for...lemonade...they serve part of a fresh squeezed lemon mixed with a little water and sugar packets on the side. I guess it could be good (depending on what you order)...only order the lemonade if your not ordering something salty or you also get some bottled water. Overall, the service and everything else is very good. Enjoy! :)

Favorite Dish: I tried the Schnitzel Banateana with french fries and it was some of the best schnitzel I've ever had. It's also served with a little bit of cabbage and mayonnaise.

I really liked Cafe Colt; which btw stands for corner cafe, because of the ambiance and service. I also really like the fact that I was sitting at the bar one night with my brother and it was about 1:30am so naturally I asked the bartender when they close and he said: "we don't". I live in Calgary, Canada now but was born in Timisoara. For me it was also cool being half a block away from the school I spent grades 1 through 4 at. I was 25 when I went back and it was my first time in 14 years going back and I gotta say that I was surprised with the peoples hospitality, willingness to speak English and to give you a great experience. This was definitely the case at Cafe Colt. I'd have to say that the best thing about Timisoara was the good food and the easy to talk to and beautiful girls.

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Don't get fooled by the italian name, most of the dishes are Romanian.

The owner worked a few years in Italy, hence the name. The owner and her daughter are serving in the restuarant.

It's small, nice, most of its customers are regulars.

I'd say it has the best cook in town, even if there are other, larger, restaurants, which look better and serve more ellaborate dishes.

The recipes are nothing out of this world, but taste great.

Every day, there are a few extra dishes, which you cannot find on the menu, which the cook does for the sheer pleasure of cooking. Don't foget to ask about them, in the unlikely event that the waiter forgets to tell you.

It may be full during weekends, especially at the end of the summer and in autumn, so it may pay to make a reservation.

They're experts on food, but not on wine. You can freely leave the waiter to choose the food for you, but don't expect too much advice on wine.

They also have traditional drinks on stock which aren't on the menu, and the waiter won't tell you about them: plum brandy (single and double distilled) and home-made sour cherry and blue berry licquor - these last two are very sweet (we call them women's drinks), and are intended for desert.

Favorite Dish: I can't recommend one special thing. I'll put up two menus:

First, the one for professional eaters:
Starter: Aubergine cream (don't miss this, you can't get it anywhere else in the world)

Soup: Pork belly soup (Germans call it Kuttelsuppe)

Main dish: Sarmale (sour cabbage leafs filled with a mixture of meat, rice and spice)

Desert: you have to ask for what's not on the menu - the usual suspects are an excelent, very aromatic apple pie, sour cherry pie, chocolate cake, all prepared in-house

Drinks:
You may have a beer before the soup.

Get a "Feteasca neagra" for the main dish. Take care to finish it before desert.

Then ask for a "vishinata" or "afinata", or a coffee, to accompany desert.


Second, a lighter menu - but you don't get most of it in winter:

Starter: a plate with
"cash" - a sort of fresh cheese, very milky and soft in its taste, also very soft in its texture - they don't have this all the time, it's available only fresh, and it doesn't get made in winter

traditional fumed bacon - it has very little fat

tomatoes - these are a must, their very good taste is what makes the whole combination exquisite.

Soup: a simple chicken soup with noodles

Main dish (well more of a fast food, if you ask me): mici (pronounced "mitch" - minced meat mixed with spice, formed into little, sausage-like dumplings, and grilled), ideally with horseradish and bread, no other side dish - IMO any side dish takes away some of its taste. If there _has_ to be a side dish, ask for french fries

Desert: same as above

Dinks:
ask for a "tsuica" (plum brandy) right after the starter, drink it up in one gulp right before you start eating the soup (you may not want to do this if the weather is too hot)

You may have a beer with the mici, but a red wine (for instance a Shiraz - it's pretty new in Romania) also goes well

For Desert: same as above