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Traditional food Bucharest
43 Reviews When you are walking in the historical centre around Lipscani street in search of a place for a dinner, you may see lots and lots of pizzerias, Irish or German style pubs, tens of “modern”,...
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Popular places Bucharest
24 Reviews 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....
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Fancy places Bucharest
12 Reviews Locanta Jarastea aspires to be the finest restaurant in Bucharest. The magnificent decor is second to none as is the high level of entertainment available in the evenings. The table settings are...
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Cafes Bucharest
17 Reviews This is a little more expenisve caf'e in the new mall Afi Palace. It is a very nice place to have your coffee and they many different kind you can choose between. It is on the second floor in the mall...
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Italian Bucharest
19 Reviews Looking for an italian restaurant in Bucharest? Can't miss Trattoria Verdi. It's the place where I eat for more than 7 years. Pizza, pasta, meat and all other italian recipes in the menu plus a wine...
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Pubs (bars) Bucharest
7 Reviews My friend and I visited Becker Brau one afternoon during our visit to Bucharest in March 2008. This German brauhaus is located on Strada Turturelelor and, despite being fairly close to Piati Unirii...
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Bistros Bucharest
7 Reviews It's difficult to classify this unique establishment, into the traditional roles of restaurant, bar, pub or cafe. Named the "Amsterdam Grand Cafe", it does happen to serve coffee, but its offering...
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Open spaces Bucharest
7 Reviews - Updated Nov 2008 - Restaurant is temporarily closed for renovation - I named this tip "a taste of history" not because of the historical building in which this restaurant is located (building which...
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Japanese Bucharest
2 Reviews Located inside Baneasa City Mall in the north part of Bucharest, between the fashion part and the supermarket Carrefour part. Tip: Take the small elevator and have a table in the upper part of the...
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If possible try eating some home made food with Romanians, they are extremely hospitable and generous. Chances are they could make you polenta (boiled corn meal), sarmale (sausages cooked in cabbage leaves) or ciorba (home made soup) Sarmale
This is a GENERAL tip: it applies to most--but certainly not ALL restaurants in Romania.Don't go to Romania for the restaurants. (Bucharest is the only exception I have found so far.) Please don't misunderstand me: there is absolutely wonderful food in Romania but the odds are against your finding it in restaurants. I am not saying that it does not exist at all; in fact, I have had a few excellent meals in restaurants (a lunch in Cluj, a dinner in Iasi--check my pages on those two cities for my entries), but the best food you will find--like the best horinca or tuica (fruit, usually plum, brandy)--is in peoples' homes. Most restaurants, especially once you leave the biggest cities (and occasionally even there) serve a menu that doesn't vary much. (There are some very good reasons for this and it IS changing--but slowly.) Everywhere. And some of Romania's most famous dishes are virtually...
Okay, this was again in Sighetu Marmentiei, just so you know at the time there was only one other place to get lunch, I would like to say hello to the staff working there, the food was as wonderful as their service. It's on the main town strip.
In a Bucarest 19th-century villa, Casa Doina is probably one of the most luxuous restaurants in the city, with traditional & fusion food. You will probably see not-so-young businessmen accompanied of much-younger nice girls. The ambience is relaxed and some days there is live classic and traditional music. However, the service you would expect in this kind of restaurants does not meet the standards.The price is very high compared to other restaurants in Romania, but nothing compared to Paris, Madrid or Rome. Try the smoked duck - not available all nights.There are excellent Romanian wines.
The one place old Cliffie would return to in Bucharest is the Caru cu bere (Beercart), a delightful restaurant in a 100-year-old building that somehow escaped the ravages of Ceaucescu. The food was simple but excellently prepared, and the draft beer was much better than the bottled beer on sale elsewhere in the capital. The night old Cliffie was there, a wedding party was celebrating loudly across the restaurant with traditional Romanian songs and dances.
some odd translations into English from Romanian menus:Filet of beef platted with Pork ->'knitted beef in a file'Sweetbreads->'blood serum'Telemea (a kind of salty cow's milk cheese) ->'sweat'Breaded and fried porks brain->'brain thrown with bread'
Food in Romania is very good and cheap if you compare to western prices. It seems very expansive for local standard of living. Of course a moderate tip at the beginning to the waiter will give you better service and better food. Although international cuisine is available in better quality restaurants, make sure that you savour the local Romanian dishes. Typical Romanian specialities include a range of soup - "ciorba", a sour soup made from fermented bran, bacon, potatoes and beef or chiken. " Sarmale " is a spicy dish of bitter cabbage leaves stuffed with meat, and " Mititei " are small grill sausages perfumed with aromatic herbs. A range of excellent white and red Romanian wines of the famous vineyards of Cotnari, Murfatlar, Valea Calugareasca, Odobesti accompany local and international dishes to perfection, while " Tuica " the local plum brandy is often drink as a digestive. Rumanian...
As legend has it, the god of wine was Thracian born, in what is today the territory of Romania. Wine has been produced in this area since the 7th century BC. The abundance and fame of the Dacian (as this part of Thracia was called) wines were so well known that in order to put an end to the migratory people’s incursions, the Dacian king Burebista (1st century BC) ordered all the vineyards destroyed. Of course, not all the vineyards were uprooted and soon many of them were replanted. Wine growing has been known for centuries long in Romania. The country has been favoured by its geographical position in South-Eastern Europe, by its proximity to the Black Sea, as well as by the specificity of the local soil and climate.The COTNARI vineyard is relating to the great Romanian prince Stephen the Great (15th century). Not only did he bravely fight against the Turks, but seems to have been very...
when in Romania, please try to eat at home, some traditional cooking, you will love it...than try some local cooking in a restaurant, you will feel the diferences...sarmalute in foi de vita, mamaliguta, peste fript pe jar, miel fript hoteste, there are just some af the traditional meals...I just don't know how to translate them
In Deva, the chinese food restaurant is fantastic. Very hard to find, however. It is in the first group of houses as you walk away from the train station and cross the road on the right. It was run by a Chinese family that has quite the reputation in the region. It's small and intimate and looks like every other chinese restaurant in the world... However, the Chicken Fried Rice and Pineapple Chicken were THE BEST I've ever tasted. Everybody was happy with their food and the staff were very friendly.
JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel Bucharest
7 Reviews and 147 Opinions The Bucharest Marriott Grand Hotel is primarily a business hotel, located close to the main business...
Bella Muzica Brasov
6 Reviews and 59 Opinions We stayd at this hotel in february 2010. The hotel was perfectly located in the the senter of...
Hotel Binder Bubi Sighisoara
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