Romania Restaurants

Restaurants in Romania run the gamut, but tend to be a bit less sophisticated than more touristy European countries. In Bucharest, you'll find everything from ambitious chef's serving up haute cuisine to organic fare in airy lofts. Elsewhere, Romania's peasant tradition is strongly reflected, and your best bet is to seek out more traditional eateries, where hearty meat-and-vegetable-based dishes show influences from nearby Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria, and cake-based desserts are spiced and stuffed with apples, prunes, or nuts. It’s all best washed down with a glass of Romanian wine or the traditional plum brandy.

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  • 1. Bistro La Teleferic

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    The restaurant at the Ciubuc-Szabó family's seven-room bed-and-breakfast (named for the cable car next door) serves good quality home-made food. The atmosphere is homey, with the small, non-smoking restaurant filled with plants and flowers in summer. The menu changes seasonally, but if it's available, be sure to try the house-made zacusca, a Romanian vegetable spread made with roasted eggplant, onions, tomatoes, and roasted gogoşari (red peppers). In winter, warm up with the pumpkin or three bean soups, or the spinach and cheese baked pasta. For dessert, try the crêpe with apple and cinnamon or honey and walnuts. Prices here are in euros.

    Strada Cuza Voda 6, Sinaia, Prahova, 106100, Romania
    723-648–380-cell phone

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: No credit cards
  • 2. Forest Restaurant

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    True to its name, this upscale eatery sits at the back of a boutique hotel and is built into the hillside amongst the trees; these and the resident bunnies running around give the feeling of dining al fresco, even in Romania's icy winters. Visit the wine cellar with the hotel's sommelier to taste a few options before settling down with the menu, which is more like a thick photo album with detailed captions. The food is on the heavy side—pork ribs with baked potatoes, duck breast with pineapple, baked lamb—but local river fish are also available, as are salads. The chocolate fondant with vanilla ice cream gets two thumbs up. The restaurant has crayons and coloring books, high chairs, and a supervised play area.

    Strada Calea Codrului 11–15, Sinaia, Prahova, 106100, Romania
    723-606–025-cell phone
  • 3. Kuib

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    Part of the Piatra Soimului Resort, Kuib is slightly removed from town but well worth visiting if you have kids in tow, as the hotel has a playground, there's a children's menu, and the kitchen is very good about dietary restrictions and allergies. Everything is labeled so you know if a dish has dairy, nuts, gluten, and so forth. The selection of food here is huge, and Kuib is perhaps the only restaurant in Sinaia with a vegetarian menu, which includes a platter with an organic quinoa salad, guacamole, and marinated tomatoes stuffed with organic couscous. Mains include a lamb filet in a sesame and chia-seed crust and seabass stuffed with seaweed and peppers and served with brown rice.

    Strada Gârbovei 10C, Sinaia, Prahova, 106100, Romania
    244-310–302
  • 4. Snow

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    There's a fun, homey vibe here, with warm service and family-friendly attributes including a children's menu, highchairs, and a proper non-smoking section. You'll find home-style Romanian fare on the menu—sausages, goulash, potato soup, and the hearty tochitură, a traditional stew of beef and pork in tomato sauce served with eggs over easy and mămăligă (similar to polenta). Vegetarians will be safest with zacusca, an eggplant and tomato spread, and some of the pastas and salads.

    Strada Cuza Voda 2A, Sinaia, Prahova, 106100, Romania
    722-111–666

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: No credit cards, Daily 8:30 am–11:30 pm
  • 5. Tirol

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    Tirol's management has recreated a little slice of Austria in this small Romanian town. Furniture and floor are of dark, gleaming wood, while the male staff dress in lederhosen and the females in dirndls. The food is good, but heavy—think chicken soup with thick noodles, duck breast with mushrooms and potatoes, or veal goulash. The lightest option is a rucola salad with bocconcini, prosciutto, cantaloupe, baby corn, and apple sauce.

    Strada Avram Iancu 1, Sinaia, Prahova, 106100, Romania
    244-313–851
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