Bucharest restaurant - Be prepared for disappointment!

Are you looking for a really nice Bucharest restaurant? For years I followed this same trail - you would find a place, and enthuse about it to all your friends, so eventually you would go with some dear friends to a rather bland, disappointing meal - nothing like the first time.

My favourite Bucharest restaurant is ironically Pizza Hut in Piatia Romana. It is the only place that time after time I have left happy - the pizza is good about 90% of the time.

As we are so busy keeping it all together, we are becoming limited to weddings and baptisms and mercifully few funerals to experiment with Bucharest cooking. This does have a major side effect, we have to go to places other people have chosen, and of course eat the preselected menu.

Our school simply stopped doing staff does in any Bucharest restaurant - if we need to eat together, we eat in the school canteen. The Turkish are so proud of their food that even things like water, coke and fizzy drinks are sourced from their own country!

Occasionally the need to eat out does overwhelm us - and then we go to one of two places. IKEA in Banasea may seem an odd choice but their meatballs are great! It is always cheap and simple - but always nice. We even have been known to drive there with empty plastic boxes to eat at home.

We still use Ca Mamma (like mothers) if we get a burning desire for tripe soup. Which I hasten to add is a remarkably rare event!

I am amazed at how costly one of the meals is in a local hotel. He does a clever dance, catching things in his hat. At around 100 a meal, he must be good - there was a long line of rich folk waiting to eat. I think they are desperate to spend their often ill-gotten riches somehow before it burns a hole in their pocket.

Romanian restaurants are still way behind on the no smoking front - this again is why I like pizza hut - they split restaurant into two with a glass sheet completely sealing the smokers inside. We loved eating in pubs in the UK for this reason.

In Romania, There would often be non-smoking tables near normal tables so the whole time smoke would drift lazily across your plate.

When you eat, add 10% to your bill as a tip. I have heard but fortunately never experienced the waitress who came back and demanded more.

If you know of a great place to eat, please tell us. Pick up magazine here called BucharestinMyPocket for the latest food reviews - they even have a phone App to guide you to the nearest decent eating hole!

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