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L’ecrevisse Bistrot Bucharest is a special jam for those who know the delightful of French cuisine. Family business, the cook is also the owner and his experience started back in the 90’s in France. L’ecrevisse is for me a special place where I can taste a very good French meal and also feel between friends.
A good meal without beverages will cost you no more than 15 – 20 Euros per person and they do have a good variety of wines and fresh fruits cocktails. Like me, you will come back again with pleasure for the cuisine and the people. Don’t miss it!
Favorite Dish: My fav top dishes:
1) Biftec Tartar is definitely one of the best in Bucharest!
2) Soupe de Champignon is a must, c’est magnifique!
3) Confit du Canard or Coq au Vin will makes you feel like you suddenly have your dinner on Champs-Elysees
4) Salads especially “Salade de foie gras” and “Salade D’ecrevisse”
5) Moules frites or Mariniers or with wine sauce if you’re lucky, they are serving only fresh and too bad that this dish is not always on the menu as I wish :(
6) Nougat Glace (home-made ice-cream) is a mix of flavors which will chill the warm evenings.
Updated Apr 16, 2011
Address: Bucharest, Ghe. Pop de Basesti 48
Phone: +40.740.010.812
Website: www.lecrevisse.ro
L’ecrevisse Bistrot Bucharest is a special jam for those who know the delightful of French cuisine. Family business, the cook is also the owner and his experience started back in the 90’s in France. L’ecrevisse is for me a special place where I can taste a very good French meal and also feel between friends.
A good meal without beverages will cost you no more than 15 – 20 Euros per person and they do have a good variety of wines and fresh fruits cocktails. Like me, you will come back again with pleasure for the cuisine and the people. Don’t miss it!
Address: Bucharest, Ghe. Pop de Basesti 48 (“Foisorul de Foc” area) better call for reservation +40.740.010.812
Open daily: 1PM until the last client, usually around/after midnight
Favorite Dish: My fav top dishes:
1) Biftec Tartar is definitely the one of best in Bucharest!
2) Soupe de Champignons is a must, c’est magnifique!
3) Confit du Canard & Coq au Vin makes you feel like you suddenly have your dinner on Champs-Elysees
4) Salads especially “Salade de foie gras” and “Salade D’ecrevisse”
5) Moules frites or mariniers or with wine sauce if you’re lucky, they are serving only fresh and too bad that this dish is not always on the menu
6) Nougat Glace (home-made ice-cream) is a mix of flavors which will chill the worm evenings.
Updated Apr 16, 2011
Address: Bucharest, Ghe. Pop de Basesti 48
Phone: +40.740.010.812
Website: www.lecrevisse.ro
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La Mama (the Romanian version of "chez mama") it's the fastest growing network of Romanian restaurants. Highly appreciated for the services and tasty food, it's the perfect place to go to if ur tummy is asking for a delicious soup or a fine barbecue.
A soup is about 3 Euros.
Main dish: 5-7 Euros
Favorite Dish: I advise you to try "Sarmalute cu mamaliguta" (smashed pork and beef, rolled in cabbage with a traditional kind of pudding- typical Romanian dish, it's a MUST ;) ) : 5.5 Euros
Updated Apr 4, 2011
Address: Delea Veche 51
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Caru cu Bere is a beautiful old German-style restaurant which servers plenty of Romanian specialties, wines, beers and of course and continental menus (if you like). There are also daily folklore entertainment witch starts at 7 PM.
Updated Apr 4, 2011
Address: Str. Stavropoleos 3
Phone: +40 1 6137560
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1879 is the year when Caru cu bere first opened the doors to greet its lively customers with what is suppsoed to be the best beer in Romania.Once you step in, you'd expect to be welcomed by a kind gentleman with a top hat.
Built in a Neo-Gothic style by Zigfrid Kofczinsky ( Austrian architect) , Caru cu bere is not a restaurant but a page in Bucharest's history. The structure and details created the ambiance of a German Beerhalle.
It was used as a set for many classical Romanian movies. I.L.Caragiale and George Cosbuc were among the personalities that marked it as a favorite place to go to.
Caru cu bere has, besides the restaurant itself, also a wine cellar where you dinner is served on live "taraf" music (musical gender typical for parties) or accompanied by cafe singers. And if u're lucky enough as to be there on a night with dancers, u'll be initiated in Romanian basic traditional dance steps.
------DO NOT MISS IT!------
Make sure you book in advance as it is a "hot spot"
May I add that Isa (Belsaita on VT) enjoyed the time we took her there.
Favorite Dish: Sausages under any form :P
And "Tigaie Picanta' (trans: Spicy Pan): chicken and pork mixed with some vegetables and many spices (take a look at the pictures)
Updated Sep 3, 2010
Address: Str. Stavropoleos, nr. 3-5
Phone: 021 313 75 60
Website: www.carucubere.ro
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If you come across one of these restaurants around town i really recommend going into one. The food and service is great. The 1st time I had streak and the next time there I tried the grilled chicken. (very Yummy)
Favorite Dish: Oh the menu they had Serbian rice which was nice.
Written Nov 6, 2008
Address: str. Lipscani, nr.12 (colt cu Calea Victoriei)
Phone: (+40) 021 314 24 89
Website: http://www.citygrill.ro/
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Caru’ cu Bere, is one of the oldest beerhouse in Bucharest, was opened for the first time in 1879 in the old Zlatari inn. After 20 years it moved to Stavropoleos Street, where it can be found today. It also makes the beer made after a secret original recipe. (Very nice)
Written Nov 6, 2008
Website: www.carucubere.ro
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This is one of the best places in Bucharest for great atmosphere and great beer! It is a very popular meeting place where people come to hang around and have a good time. The atmosphere is very casual! The restaurant was opened in 1879. There are great decorations inside: columns, arches, chandeliers, a wooden staircase, furniture and murals on the walls and ceiling.
Written Mar 10, 2008
Address: Stavropoleos Street no. 3-5
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Romanians, especially here in the South, love their sweets. At someone's house, home made jam (the confiture type, with whole pieces of fruit) is served with Turkish coffee or fresh lemonade. Or, if you are really lucky, the lady of the house will be a good cook and come with a plate of steamy, freshly baked apple, cheese or pumpkin pie (no, not the one made with readily made Bella dough from the supermarket, I am talking about home made dough and about tasty things here).
But if you do not get invited over by anyone or if the lady of the house is not a cook (scrambled eggs, potato soup, instant whatever and pasta are not included in "cooking"), then head off for the city and look for one of the "cofetarie" signs. This stands for confectionery shops that sell (usually locally cooked) cakes, birthday cakes, cookies and chocolate products. Sometimes they are also into pastry. Not all these places are at the same level (for some of them use whipped cream from the tube, while others make their own).
Favorite Dish: There are a few brands you should be looking for. For chocolates, forget Leonidas and whatever else, head for the Capsa (at the hotel with the same name on Calea Victoriei), for their Cofetarie; they have been the best in Bucharest chocolate for a long while and are still there. Also, their Pricomigdale are still Romania's best. Unfortunatelyt their place is a take away, there are no tables and chairs. Of the cofetarie chains in the city, the Ana and the Tic Tac are the best. The Ana has great mini cakes, while the Tic Tac does great cheese and jam cakes. Of the individual cofetaries (which abound, even though some of them have been bought over by the two above), the one next to Piata Romana metro station, or the one near the crossing of Regina Elisabeta with Calea Victoriei are great. Especially the fruit cakes or the coffee and chocolate cakes are great. Usually these places do not serve alcohol (sometimes they sell sparkling wine to go with birthday cakes, but that is all). Cakes cost from RON 3 up to RON 10.
Updated Jan 11, 2008
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This is not about a single place. Bucharest - and Wallachia for that matter - hosts many small pastry shops (Ro. patiserie) and pretzel shops (Ro. covrigarie / simigerie); usually the farther you go to the North and West in Romania, they are fewer.
A piece of notice is needed here however: a few years ago a company from Timisoara brought a Fornetti franchise system in the country. They pretend they sell pastry. Actually it is frozen dough with (very little and often tasteless) filling that they unfreeze and bake. This has nothing to do with traditional pastry. Even though they spread more and more, with a good marketing campaign against independent, small pastry shops, I vote against them. This has nothing to do with real pastry and here for one Bucharest with its traditions wins at points. Romanian pastry is based on dough made on the spot and baked shortly afterwards, hence its being crisp and tasty. A similar piece of warning goes for the Gogoasa Infuriata chain. Inspired by Dunkin Donuts, their donuts have little, if ever, in common with the bigger and tastier local ones.
One of the best shop for baklava in the city lies on Vatra Luminoasa Street, 200 m. East of the crossing with Mihai Bravu Avenue; but one can find baklava also in La Fourmi and Mega Image supermarkets. As for pastry shops, there are many of them, but I give a special thumb up for the one on Selari Street (on the crossing with Smardan Street) or for the one on Calea Dorobantilor, near the crossing with Slatineanu Street. Or for the ones near Bucuresti Nord railway station (the one on Calea Grivitei 50 m. NW from the crossing with Duca Avenue is great). As for pretzel shops, there is a very good one on Bratianu Avenue, on the ground floor of Cocor Store (on the Raiffeisen Bank side), but there is another just as good one on the corner of Franceza and Selari streets.
Favorite Dish: There can be salty pies (pastry filled with salted cheese, mushrooms, minced pork, spinach, cabbage and even sausages), as well as sweet ones (they are very diverse here, from pastry filled with apples, peaches, berries, sweet cheese, vanilla cream or chocolate, and all the way to the baked apple in dough or to various baklavas). Some places also serve delicious donuts (Ro. gogosi) or langosi (donuts filled with cheese, chocolate, jam). Then there are the "covrigarie"s, selling only large, fresh (i.e. hot) pretzels baked on the spot in special ovens. These are fewer and fewer unfortunately.
Updated Jan 5, 2008
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