Hungry in Bucharest - where and what to eat?

The ever cosmopolitan Bucharest has an extremely wide variety of restaurants of oh-so-many nationalities, specialties and cuisines.

If first time here, you just have to try Romanian cuisine. You can go to a traditional restaurant, but you can also find traditional dishes at other restaurants, just read carefully the menu. If you see sarmale, mamaliga and tochitura, you're on the right track. If you see double from too much palinca, you might walk on more than one tracks on your way home.

The Roman blood that had once flowed in our veins is maybe an explanation of why there are so many Italian restaurants in town: pizzerias, tratorias, caffeterias, cucinas, you can never go wrong with an Italian restaurant.

If you're in the mood for heavier food washed down with floods of beer, there are very highly rated German pubs too. Not that Romanian dishes are not heavy, you just wash them down with palinca.

Si vous etes un gourmand and appreciate gourmet dishes, you might want to try some of the French restaurants in Bucharest.

Other kinds of cuisines: spicy Hungarian, sunny Mediteranean or passionate Greek.

If you're in for oriental food, there are quite a few Chinese joints, and also Thai, Korean, Vietnamese and you just have to try the sushi bar at Howard Johnson Grand Plaza Hotel. Also oriental, but with a completely different approach, Indian restaurants are well represented.

Latin America trails along quite shyly, try Don Taco (Mexican), Carnivore (Brazilian), Bolivar or Argentine (take a wild guess).

If nothing can convince you to get a taste of the real thing, you can just stay in and order food, there are lots of places that have catering services.

Last but not least you surely might want to consider the already existing reviews.

We recommend, subjectively it's true, Burebista and Nicoresti for Romanian traditional food, Four Seasons - lebanese specialties, Trattoria Edgar for Italian food, Becker Brau and Die Deutsche Kneipe for German complex dishes, Taj with a vietnamese menu, Noblesse for French dishes or Balthazar for both French and Asian exquisite (and quite expensive) food.