![]() ![]() ![]() I equally like to go to a cafe across the street I live in (in Vič district) as well as places downtown. Where to drink? There’s many places that combine previously stated combo: good coffee + good people. We take our time, sit down, chat, drink, chat.Īs with everything, things are changing and we are also feeling the third wave coffee influence, such as introducing Chemex, cold brew, Syphon, AeroPress, Canadiano. We don’t just drink, we enjoy coffee - with present company. I would also add coffee for us is a ritual. Tine Čokl from Cafe Čokl likes to say we drink Italian coffee Vienna style, which in other words means we like espresso-based coffee having served to us at a table, and I do agree with this. What’s it like? Any great places to get a caffeine boost? Tell us about Ljubljana’s coffee culture. I could go on forever… A cold brew coffee at Cafe Čokl. Try mulled wine in winter, dandelion and lamb’s lettuce salad in Spring, superb gelato in summer, and pumpkin soup in the fall. What is one local dish everyone needs to try when visiting Ljubljana and why? Also, go visit our farmers’ market and talk to the vendors. Ljubljana tourism board also has an initiative called Taste Ljubljana, a good starting point to understand what we eat and when. Along with your food walks, how would you recommend first-time visitors navigate trying the local cuisine?īasically just take a stroll downtown around lunch hour, noon to 2pm, and observe where locals go. I guess we took the best from all the empires & federations we were ever part of - like Roman, Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslavia - and made it our own. Our fish market is also very well stocked. Our attachment to garden vegetables, despite living in a city, is big, and many citizens have some sort of urban garden. We are fortunate enough to have a farmers’ market every day except public holidays and Sundays. It would be all the cultures that have lived here, starting with Romans over 2,000 years ago - who interestingly enjoyed great wine even back then! Next, it was the role of Ljubljana as always being a merchant and transient city, selling goods between East and West, and of course the people who lived here and had their demands: river workers - the Ljubljanica River was once the main “road” in the city - merchants, city dwellers. Historically and/or culturally, what has helped to shape Ljubljana as it is today? The balance between traditional and contemporary food is awesome. And because Ljubljana is a capital - meaning people of many origins, tastes and diets live here - the scope of food on offer is satisfyingly abundant. I like the fact most Ljubljana eateries follow these principles, therefore I anticipate every season and certain holidays because I know special dishes are coming. In your opinion, what is Ljubljana cuisine/what does it mean to you?įirst it means home. With my Ljubljananjam food walks, you get to eat and drink like a local with a local - me. People tell stories and people make food therefore, food tells stories. Although it’s not just about the food we taste, but the places we stop and the people behind tabletops. I take guests to my favorite spots in the city to experience delicious food first hand. I have lived and traveled abroad enough to know what we have in Ljubljana and Slovenia. The idea is simple: I want my guests to get to love Ljubljana like I do, through the city’s culinary side. What is the philosophy and goal with this? Without further adieu, here is everything you need to know to make your trip to Ljubljana a delicious one. While I could tell you about what I noticed about Ljubljana’s culinary culture as a visitor, I thought it would be more pertinent to have, Iva, the real expert, give her perspective. There’s a difference between stopping into a place and eating a vegetable soup, and stopping in with a local and having the chef tell you they picked those vegetables fresh from their garden this morning, and that their recipe inspiration came from their 25 years working in Italy. In Ljubljana, it was meeting the restaurant owners and learning what drove their passion for food, what they loved about their city and how the idea for the restaurants were formulated. One of the many delicious meals I savored with Iva on her food walk Of course, you can go to any city and simply wander, choosing restaurants that proclaim to serve the typical food, but doing a food walk with a local allows you to eat what they would eat, and learn what makes the culinary culture special beyond the ingredients. ![]() On a recent trip to Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital, I signed up for a tour with Ljubljananjam Food Walks, created and led by born and raised local Iva Gruden. ![]() I’m an fan of getting to know a city through not only its food, but its purveyors and delicious small businesses. ![]()
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