Bled Restaurants

  1. Castle Restaurant

    The fabulous views are 'free' from the superbly situated terrace of the restaurant in the castle. It's run by the Bled's catering and tourism school and staffed by its charming students.

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  2. Gostilna Pri Planincu

    En situ since 1903, this is a homely pub-restaurant just down the hill from the Bledec Hostel near the castle. It offers simple Slovenian mains and grilled Balkan specialities like čevapčiči (spicy meatballs of beef or pork; around €6 .65) and tasty pljeskavica z kajmakom (Serbian-style meat patties with mascarpone-like cream cheese).

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  3. Mayer Penzion

    The restaurant at this delightful inn serves such tasty Slovenian fare as sausage, trout, roast pork and skutini štruklji (cheese curd pastries). The list of Slovenian wines (only) is a cut above.

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  4. Okarina

    This very upmarket restaurant has lost its parklike location just northwest of the Pri Planincu and is now in a modern dining room next to the post office. Still, the ethnic decorations and traditional musical instruments (an okarina is a small clay flute) remain, and along with well-prepared Slovenian and international favourites, the Okarina's tandoor oven produces decent Indian dishes like chicken tikka and rogan josh . There are a fair few vegetarians choices.

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  5. Ǒstarija Peglez'n

    A new favourite restaurant in Bled, the 'Iron Inn' is just opposite the landmark Grand Hotel Toplice. It has fascinating retro décor with lots of old household antiques and curios (including the eponymous iron) and wooden floors. It serves some of the best fish dishes in town. What's more, it is nonsmoking throughout.

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  6. Peking

    This Chinese eatery opposite the Hotel Krim Bled has such favourites as hui guo rou (twice-cooked pork) and ma po doufu (spicy bean curd). They ain't exactly what you'd get in Chengdu, but this is Slovenia, after all.

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  7. Pizzeria Pletna

    If you just want something cheap, cheerful and fast, head for this simple pizzeria with a wood-fired oven above the main road in Mlino.

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  8. Slaščičarna Šmon

    Bled's culinary speciality is kremna rezina (cream cake; around €2.70 ), a layer of vanilla custard topped with whipped cream and sandwiched neatly between two layers of flaky pastry, and while Šmon may not be its place of birth, it remains the best place in which to try it.

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