Food
Rachel’s recipes: Romanian strawberries, basil and buffalo sour cream and yoghurt
I was so happy to see Romanian strawberries this weekend… so many beautiful easy recipes…and it’s well worth buying the local ones, because they do have more fragrance and taste than those flown in. I bought some gorgeous strawberries at the Matache market and topped up with extras at the Autogara market in Baneasa. It’s [...]
Romanian recipe: Poale’n brau cheese pies
This recipe is from the Moldova region of Romania (North of the country), and if the literal translation is …well, not very appetizing – let’s just call it an amazing cheese pie. ‘Poale in brau’ roughly means ‘the bottom of the skirt raised to the belly band’ and to some extent illustrates the form of [...]
Romanian Easter recipe: Drob de miel (lamb haggis)
A traditional food that is found on many Easter menus in Romania is called ‘Drob de miel’ (Lamb haggis). Lamb- based recipes are popular at this time of the year among Romanians, but while a lamb broil is easier to make, the drob recipe is a bit more complicated. Let’s learn how to cook it. [...]
Romanian royalty cookbook among finalists at World Cookbook Awards
Romania is among the six finalists in the Easy Recipe section of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, that will take place next week in Paris. Princess Margareta of Romania’s book ‘Cartea regala de bucate’ (The Royal Cookbook) is one of the six finalists in this section, joining book publishers from France, Ireland, Malta, UAE and [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Collage (10-12 Mihalache Blvd., Bucharest)
Collage, 10-12 Mihalache Blvd, 0758 10 10 40, www.collageworld.ro Collage is new and interesting, only opened two months ago- it has many strings to its bow. A high-end restaurant, an art gallery lounge with a retro design which becomes a cafe restaurant and music venue after dark. Then a wine tasting room in the cellar, with a fine [...]
Romania Insider restaurant review: Lente (Bucharest, Gen. Praporgescu St.)
[pullquote]Lente, Gen. Praporgescu St, Metro Universitate[/pullquote] Lente is not strictly speaking a restaurant – it’s a cafe, but it’s a cafe where the food is considerably more than an afterthought included just because it should be. Situated on a quiet road off Batiştei street, behind the Intercontinental hotel, the first impression is of tranquility. Outside, [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Da Giulio, 29 Popa Stoica Farcas St., Bucharest
29 Popa Stoica Farcas St., Romana Square Tel: 021 323 52 40 da_giulio@yahoo.com In a nutshell, here is great authentic Italian food. Da Giulio has been a real find only discovered through the recommendations of others. This city has more Italian style restaurants than those of any other foreign country with variable quality and authenticity. [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Ici et La, 43 Mendeleev St., Bucharest
Address: 43 Mendeleev St., Romana Square Phone: +40 731 453 608 Web: www.icietla.ro If you are looking for good French cuisine in Bucharest then Ici et La will fit the bill. Opened two and a half years ago in Piata Romana by French owner and Chef Philippe Dupre, this seventy- seater restaurant offers a very [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Ginger (40-44 Banu Antonache St.)
Address: Banu Antonache 40-44 St., Floreasca area Phone: 0730930421 www.gbar.ro Well, everybody appears to be back to school and Bucharest is in full swing again after the holiday season, it would certainly appear so based on the traffic. This means the search is back on to find new bars and restaurants and old favorites to [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Siam Thai Restaurant (1 Amiral Vasile Urseanu St.)
ADDRESS 1 Amiral Vasile Urseanu www.siamthairestaurant.ro Tel: 021 210 9435 Finding good Thai food in these parts can be a struggle, fair enough you would say, the Thai population in Romania is very small. Infact whilst writing this article I rang the Thai Embassy in Bucharest as a point of interset to see how [...]
French guide ‘A la Carte’ picks favorite restaurants in Romania
A new restaurant guide put together by French Nicholas Andrieu and Didier Ousset lists seven favorite restaurants in Bucharest and elsewhere in Romania and ranks others by the quality of food, décor, quality of service and the quality/price ratio. The latter seems to be an issue in Romania, although here one can find comparable food [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Madame Pogany (40-44 Banu Antonache St.)
ADDRESS: Str. Banu Antonache 40-44, Floreasca Web: www.madamepogany.ro Phone: 0743 661 782 Madame Pogany opened in October last year bringing something new and fresh to the area around Floreasca fruit and vegetable market. Situated on the ground floor under the large office building at 40 Str. Banu Antonache, this bar and restaurant is fitted throughout [...]
Fox’ Bar and Restaurant review: Aqua restaurant (7-9, Nordului St.)
Aqua Restaurant 7-9, Nordului St Tel: 0731 888 999, www.aquachique.ro Aqua is a restaurant set in an idyllic location on the banks of the Harastrau Lake. Its modern and sophisticated style places it firmly in the upper end of the restaurant spectrum in Bucharest.The excellent food, service and setting make it all worth the price tag, a fact proven by its customers. [...]
Frances Reilly on Romanian food: Quality of local food comes from superior produce
Frances Reilly, a 22-year old Oxford Brookes University graduate who is on a tourism internship to Romania, where she will take part in the Transilvania Fest traveling food and culture festival, has recently discovered Romanian food- and wrote about it for Romania-Insider.com. As a 22-year-old English woman arriving in Romania, there were several things that [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Beer O’Clock (VillaCrosse Passage)
Beer O’Clock Pasaj Mecca – Strada Bijuteria, Old Town (Calea Victoriei side) Tel: 0767233335, www.beeroclock.ro Beer beer beer! You may say to yourself yet another bar to open in the Old Town, which is a fair observation as the streets are lined with bars and it can be a struggle to point out the differences between them [...]
Restaurant review: Just desserts! @ Malagamba (2 Sf. Dumitru St., Bucharest, Romania)
Address: 2 Sf. Dumitru Street, Lipscani area, Bucharest Web: www.malagamba.ro Being blessed with a sweet tooth and thus a great lover of dessert, as I sample different restaurants around the city, a pecking order takes shape a bit like a league table in my head of what tickled the taste buds. Fortunately sharing such appreciation [...]
Recipe from Romania: Cabbage a la Cluj (Varza a la Cluj)
Cabbage a la Cluj is an original way to prepare the cabbage: spicier, making it more consistent. You can prepare this anytime because it’s an excellent food, easy to prepare. You will need the following ingredients: 2 medium cabbages (pickled cabbage is recommended) 1 to 1.2 kg minced pork and beef meat 150g of rice [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Mesogios, 49 Jean Louis Calderon St.
Mesogios Fish Restaurant ADDRESS: 49 Jean Louis Calderon St. Tel: 0727 239 239 cezar@mesogios.ro, www.mesogios.ro Fish, glorious fish! Mesogios was a recommendation by a friend and is located in Jean Louis Calderon St. It is slightly off the beaten track, so not a place to simply stumble across, in a very fine old building which [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Naser, 86 Dumitru Zosima St.
Naser Restaurant, Dumitru Zosima St., no. 86, Sector 1, Bucharest, 021 222 72 07 Hands up anyone who has been to Syria! I haven’t either, but based on the Syrian kitchen I have discovered here in Bucharest, I feel quite inspired. My new find, the Restaurant Naser, is very exciting and I have visited it [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Osteria Gioia, 16 Ion Mihalache Blvd.
16 Ion Mihalache Blvd., Tel 021 31 37 50 www.osteriagioia.ro Osteria Gioia has intrigued me for a while now and while driving past it regularly, it has seduced me into trying it. Knowing nothing about the history, just looking through the perfectly square window into this tunnel-like restaurant which always looks to busy. Too much [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: 18 Lounge by Embassy (3-5 Presei Libere Square)
18th Floor, 3-5 Presei Libere Square, City Gate South Tower Tel 0733 501 401 www.18lounge.ro 18 Lounge opened in Bucharest last December on the top floor of the City Gate South Tower, next door to the Pullman Hotel. As you enter the building on the ground floor you could be forgiven for thinking you are [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Divan, 46-48 Franceza St.
Address: 46-48 Franceza St., Old Town Phone: 021 312 30 34 Web: www.thedivan.ro For those of you who love the Turkish kitchen, Divan will definitely satisfy your needs. The place was opened in December of 2009 in the Old Town by Romanian owners, who have created a totally authentic feel, with all the furnishings, down [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Red Angus, 56 Franceza St.
Red Angus Steak House 56 Franceza St., Old Town, Bucharest Tel: 021 312 03 83, www.redangus.ro This traditional US style Steak House, newly opened in October, has brought a new dimension to the Old Town and fills a niche in Bucharest as a place to have a really top quality Steak. Operated by Justin Costello [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Sunday Brunch, Radisson Blu, 63-81 Calea Victoriei
On cold, wet, gray Sundays in Bucharest, when you haven’t got the energy or the will to head for the ski slopes, what better way is there to spend a Sunday afternoon than having a very long, leisurely Sunday brunch. Many of the big Hotels in town offer this in a similar format, but having [...]
Fox’ Bar & Restaurant Review: Zen Sushi, 86 Calea Serban Voda
Sushi- the Japanese word meaning ”sour”- was a dish invented in Japan in the Muromachi period around the mid 1300′s, and in those times it was made from fermented fish. The Sushi we eat today, which is internationally recognised and enjoyed, was created in the Edo period in the early 1800′s by a man called Hanaya Yohei as a fast food. I would thank him personally if he were still alive! Sushi is a personal favourite which I developed a taste for whilst living in the Far East.
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