Restaurant: Burebista
For the vegetarian in you, do NOT step into this restaurant, as it offers a very large variety of hunter’s food. Today we present Burebista.
There are 3 restaurants in Bucharest named this way, the first one opened in 1998.
Specific hunter’s restaurant is located on Batiste Street, right across the US Embassy. The first one is located on Calea Mosilor, and there is a third one – traditional – close to Piata Victoriei.
This restaurant has 3 levels, a ground level and two (one and a half, to be precise) in the basement, and, for its decoration, combines the medieval style (amours, flags with tassels and coasts of arms) with a rustic one (massive wood furniture and stuffed animals).
The staff was very prompt and kind, we were told precisely about what we were about to eat. Ah... the menu. Rarely does one get to see such diversity and order.
For example, a page full of appetizers is all one needs to get a hunger-attack: venison back with fruits in aspic (14 lei), wild boar in tartar sauce (15 lei), hare (15 lei), duck liver terrine stuffed with jam (32 lei) or deer pastrami (11 lei).
The main course (if you skip the classical soup) is also luring: Pan-fried venison fillet with Williams pears and currents (30 lei), duck foie grill sour cherry sauce (36 lei), roasted wild pheasant with currants sauce(36 lei), bear’s paw (450 lei).
In case you enjoy the atmosphere but just can’t live with the idea of eating Bambi or his fellow bunny friends, the restaurant offers a variety of “classics”: all kinds of salads (6-11 lei), soups (6-8lei), cold meats or raw vegetables (potatoes, eggplant) or various types of cheese.
Also, you’ll find a variety of regular types of meat (chicken, beef, pork) in original presentations, with plenty of delicious sauces: wine, mushroom, sour cherry, apple or tartar (4 lei). For desert, the honorable cheese dumplings (we’ve heard they are the best in town).
The wine menu is extremely diverse and even contains some old Romanian wines: Murfatlar, Tarnave, Dealu Mare and Cotnari, the oldest being a Sauvignon Blanc from Cotesti Region from year 1976 (150 lei).
The atmosphere, slightly too crowded because of excess ornaments (especially animal ones), gets better in the evening, when a folk music band starts playing and little lights are lit which give the feeling of an old inn.
The restaurant is full in the evenings, so we recommend a reservation, phone no 004 021 211 89 29.
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