At the table
A place where we ate this week.
Romanian restaurants and kitchens seen from the table: the atmosphere, the plate, the people behind it. Short reviews, no stars.
At the Table · București · Shaorma Fest
How Shawarma Became Romanian Food
Nadia Eperjessy ate her first shawarma stumbling out of a club in Constanța about twenty years ago. Today she's a nutritionist and part of the team behind Shaorma Fest, billed as Romania's first festival dedicated to shawarma. What's changed since then isn't the recipe — it's who owns it.
Adi Coco · 6 min
At the Table · Bukovina · Ciocănești
The Soup That Never Leaves the Village
Adi Coco · 3 min
AT THE TABLE · DOBROGEA · MURFATLAR
La Povești, Murfatlar — sturgeon ciorbă and blueberry papanași, in the pergola garden
Adi Coco · 5 min
AT THE TABLE · FRIED ICE CREAM
Have You Ever Eaten… Fried Ice Cream?
Redacția RomâniaFrumoasă · 6 min
Where to Eat the Best Mici in Bucharest: 10 Places Where Mici Became Legend
Redacția RomâniaFrumoasă · 5 min
Other rubrics
A number
A number that explains something about Romania this week.
A village
A Romanian village, seen carefully.
A place
A remarkable, non-obvious place.
The road
A road, a bridge or a railway, and the story behind it.
The season
What's specific to this week in Romania.
Out now
What's out this week: film, book, album, exhibition.