One of Kvarner's best restaurants, Plavi Podrum does wonderful, innovative cooking perfectly paired with great wines and olive oils. Its standout dishes include risotto with scampi and truffle (or wild asparagus); sea bass, foie gras and pumpkin-and-coriander purée; and scampi skewers with a dusting of coffee and black Istrian truffle accompanied by monkfish reduction and apple purée.
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