Restaurants in Transylvania
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Bistro de l'Arte
In the bottom of a cosy 15th-century building, the Bistro is the place for sit-back wine sessions, breakfasts with wi-fi for your laptop, or lively dinners with mingling Romanian couples (who sometimes come for plays). The menu drifts from French and includes daily fish dishes, big salads and pasta.
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Grand Plaza
Not far from the train station, this simple and busy Romanian restaurant passes on the gimmicks and focuses on tasty Romanian food, which the locals file in for.
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Roata
Housed in a back-alley building, with tasty traditional Romanian dishes served in clay plates, this joint is best for sitting on the small terrace and vying for space amidst potted plants and moss-covered stones. Traditional music puts a little bounce into the air. People know it's good, and it's almost always busy.
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Crama Sibiul Vechi
This popular, evocative brick-cellar spot off the main crawl reels in locals for its tasty Transylvanian armoury of mutton, sausages and beef and fish. There's live music most nights.
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Speed/Alcatraz
Busy fast-food option with good seating options, including an outdoor deck and an enigmatic Alcatraz basement with seating in Al Capone-style cages.
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Café International & Family Centre
This two-room café, with chairs spilling onto the square in summer, is the perfect lunch spot, with daily made, mostly vegetarian fare, including quiche or lasagne or lemon meringue pie. No alcohol is served but you can bring beer to the outside tables. It also doubles as a tourist office in summer (only); knows a lot about the city, can arrange 1½-hour walking tours, hire bikes and can point you to an organic apple orchard in the hills outside town. Sales of local crafts go to help local homeless children and the elderly. The basement is a good spot for internet access.
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Tokyo
If you've been in Romania for a while, you'll want to come to this non-Romanian, non-Italian eatery. It's hard to miss, with its red Shinto gate façade west of the Botanical Gardens. Japanese pop on the stereo is a refreshing touch, as is the pretty good sushi, warm hand towels and imported green tea.
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La Casa Veche
This lovely three-room place serves Romanian fare and it feels like stepping back a stack of centuries. It has silver platters and rustic wooden floors inside, and outside seats on brick courtyard face the nice backyard. It's best for steaks, but - this is Romania - there are a few pasta choices.
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Irish House
Guinness is on tap, ceilings are green, and the menu squeezes in a few token Irish dishes, but everything else in the two-room rustic spot is pretty much Romanian or Italian. Everyone looks little, as the tables are too high for the chairs. Irish House also has a guestroom upstairs.
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Casa Româneasca
Deep in the Schei district, away from trolling tourists, this casa serves tasty sarmalute cu mamaliguta (boiled beef rolled with vegetables and cabbage) and a very meaty 'rustic tray' grab-bag. Live music adds to or subtracts from the experience, based on your taste.
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Kebab
The name's simple, and the food's great and cheap, plus there's seating. Go in, pick out kebabs or cafeteria-style salads or hot dishes (including a veggie option or two), then sit inside or under the orange canopy on the sidewalk.
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Leo
Covered sidewalk seats fill first in this buzzing all-hours restaurant, popular for tasty grilled meats (a specialty is the lovely grilled pork with corn grits, fried eggs and garlic sauce), pizzas, big salads, beer or ice cream.
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Pizza Pasta Venezia
Wall-sized Venetian paintings and soft lighting - and cheaper prices - helps this cosy Italian restaurant fill before its similar-themed neighbours. The mozzarella-and-tomato salad seems particularly fresh.
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La Brace
Amidst trees, and near where the cable car passes, this fun multifloor place gets busy for pizza mostly - and the oven-baked pies are well done. It's a 15-minute walk from the centre; follow the many signs.
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La Piazzetta
Facing the square, this pizzeria is livelier than most, with smokers and passive smokers eating sizey pizzas at red-chequered tables in the peach-walled interior or outside when the weather's nice.
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Caprice
Baking since 1926, this three-room patisserie evokes ages past. Ice-cream comes out in summer, but look for the 'frog' (choco biscuit covered in Kermit-green frosting) year-round.
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Rustic
Wide-open windows hardly make a dent of light in this dark wood-and-brick 'man's man' bar/restaurant down from the citadel. Eggs are served all day, plus the usual grilled meats.
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Emma Vendégco
This low-key Hungarian restaurant/bar brings in the locals for its cheap borschts and four-course dinners. Best of all is the chicken with cucumber sauce and polenta.
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Cafeneaua Graft
Part of the old wall lookout on the western wall, this smoky hipster spot revels in ice cream, coffee and drinks. There's an outdoor area above the wall too.
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Lugano
This ritzy little Italian restaurant is the best at the pasta game, with no pizza to clutter the menu or a long wine list. Trout is grilled with lemon.
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Ferdinand
On the way up/back from Peleş, Ferdinand's rustic dining room is an ante-upped option; chicken in raspberry wine sauce is the house speciality.
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Jo Pizzerie
Jo's huge terrace overlooks the busy square, with old tower views. The setting's great but the pizza's just OK. Focus on beer and ice cream.
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Cositorarului Casa
Near the citadel wall, this indoor/outdoor café focuses on sweets, coffee and brandy - but has a few sandwiches.
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Sandwich & More
This window spot serves fresh veggie sandwiches and Asian-style pastas. It's by far Sibiu's best fast-food option.
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Hirscher Keller
Gothic meets Moderne in this stylish dining room that focuses on steaks - very tasty, very juicy steaks. There's a nice grilled vegetables plate with eggplant, cheese and tomato, and a wine cellar downstairs housing the luxe list of local wines. Breakfasts include Eggs Benedict.
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