Restaurants in Black Sea Coast
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Happy Bar & Grill
Varna’s home-grown, and now nationwide, chain restaurant has four branches around the city, including at this central location. The uncomplicated menu of grills, steaks and salads pulls in customers throughout the day, and the friendly waitstaff, who occasionally launch into spontaneous dance routines, certainly add to the atmosphere. There’s another branch on bul Slivnitsa.
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Pri Monahinite
[ourpick] Pri Monahinite Set in the courtyard of a little church, Pri Monahinite (‘At the Nuns’ Place’) is a classy place for roast lamb, grilled pork and other meaty offerings. It also does good salads and has an extensive wine list.
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Pri Lipite
[ourpick] Pri Lipite Easily the best restaurant in town, ‘Under the Lime Trees’ is set in the shady courtyard of a house built in 1910 for the then mayor of Burgas. It offers a huge menu of traditional Bulgarian cuisine including stewed boar, roast lamb, chicken kavarma (a traditional seasoned stew served in a clay pot) and veal-tail soup, as well as various yoghurt-based dishes (with all the milk and cheese coming from the restaurant’s own dairy). It gets extremely busy at night, and reservations are advisable.
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Mehana Marina
A few steps up the unnamed lane running east from the bus stop, Marina is a folksy restaurant set in a courtyard planted with trees and little fountains. The menu features traditional Bulgarian cuisine such as kebabche (spicy grilled meat sausages) , as well as lots of fish dishes, grills and German fare such as bratwurst and schnitzel.
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Vodenitsata
Standing on the seafront overlooking the beach, ‘The Water Mill’ is a traditional wood-cabin affair, which is always packed out with locals. Specialities include grilled fish, barbecues, steaks and salads, and it seems to be one of the rare places along here that stays open beyond the summer months.
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Restaurant Paradise
The pedestrianised section of ul Ropotamo, alongside Harmanite Beach, is packed with cafés, restaurants and bars. They’re all pretty much the same, but a couple stand out. Restaurant Paradise has a raised, off-street eating area and serves reasonably priced steaks, fish and soup.
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Dom na Arkitekta
Dom na Arkitekta ‘The Architect’s House’ is a fine old wooden National Revival–style building with a private, leafy courtyard popular with local cats. The usual grills, steaks and salads are on the menu and it’s a restful place for a cold beer or two.
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Mr Baba
The coast-long trend for novelty ship restaurants has come to Varna, with this wooden-hulled venture stranded at the end of the beach, near the port. Named after a 17th-century Ottoman admiral, it features a pricey but hearty menu of fish and steak dishes such as sea bass, trout and bluefish.
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Evropa
Almost every restaurant in the city seems to serve pizza, but if you’re in the mood for a quattro staggione, then Evropa is one of the better outlets, baking the freshly made pizzas in a traditional brick oven. Pasta, salads, fish and pork steaks also figure on the menu.
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Tambuktu
One of the few restaurants along the seaside promenade that stay open year-round, Tambuktu is a chain seafood restaurant, serving up a vast assortment of freshly caught fish. Sea bass, lobster, prawns and many other dishes are on the menu, and there’s live music in the evenings.
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Fat Cat
On the beachfront facing the Glarus Hotel, this is a typically boisterous restaurant and pub aimed particularly at British tourists, with a menu of pizzas, steaks, pies and curries, and big screens showing Sky Sports. There’s a 20% discount between 5pm and 7pm.
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Restaurant Tsarevets
The beachfront promenade, ul Kraybrezhna, is lined with restaurants, while better options (with multilingual menus) are found near the Preobrazhenie Gospodne Church, including Restaurant Tsarevets, which offers grilled pork, chicken and fish dishes.
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Ksantana
The split-level terraces of this traditional fish restaurant afford a bird’s-eye view of Sveti Ivan Island from the courtyard balcony. The restaurant can be entered at both the top and bottom of the steps and can be easy to miss, with a sign only in Cyrillic.
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Monte Christo
One of the classier options along this pizza-prone street, serving up excellent dishes such as duck breast with blueberries, salmon with peppermint sauce, and lobster. It also does some tasty appetizers: try the marinated sheep’s cheese with honey and pears.
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Orient Turkish Restaurant
Another of Varna’s best, this halal place serves up delicious Turkish and Middle Eastern dishes such as shish kebabs, tabouleh and stuffed vine leaves. Despite being on a busy road, the outdoor terrace is pleasantly shielded from the traffic by some bushes.
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Bistro Silva
Set right on the beach, this is a great place to grab a quick, cheap lunch. You can sit on the main wooden terrace or in an old fishing boat alongside that’s fitted out with tables, and tuck into basic dishes such as moussaka and chicken and rice.
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Zlatna Diona
Near the Hotel Crystal Beach, the ‘Golden Dune’ is a cheap and cheery restaurant offering better value than the beachfront places. The English menu features grilled fish, pasta, pizza, salads and soups and the usual Bulgarian specialities.
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Bistro Flagman
One of several harbourside restaurants just outside the town walls offering a fish-heavy menu, though grilled chicken, pork steaks and salads are also available. It’s a pleasant place to just sit back with a Burgasko beer or two on a hot day.
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Old Sailor
Marine-themed harbourside restaurant offering all the fishy dishes you can think of. Mussels, crabs, bluefish and shark are just some of the featured menu items, while steaks, chicken fillets and omelettes are among the alternatives.
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Old Nesebâr
With two tiers of seating offering great sea views, this is a popular place for barbecues, grills and fish dishes. It also offers an unexpected menu of Mexican food, including reasonable stabs at fajitas and burritos.
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New Shanghai
At the eastern end of the street, this always bustling, authentic Chinese restaurant serves up huge portions of all the old favourites, including sweet and sour chicken and pork noodles, as well as vegetarian dishes.
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Dvata Petela
The ‘Two Cockerels’ is one of the cheaper places on the seafront promenade, with seating on a wooden pier perched over the rocks. Pizzas, pork chops, chicken kebabs and various fish dishes are served.
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Old Boat
With an attractive waterfront setting overlooking the harbour, this is as good a place as any for fresh fish. The grilled mackerel, shark fillet and bluefish are all good, and it also serves salads and grills.
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El Marinero
The excellent restaurant of the Hotel Mistral is the place to go for some classier cuisine. Fried turbot, smoked salmon, caviar and pepper steaks are among the offerings, and it does particularly good salads.
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Prestol
Busy place on the seaside promenade serving cheap grills and salads in an attractive beachfront setting. Pork skewers and fish are on the menu, along with ‘sausage by the metre’ for the very hungry.
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