Cuisine in Kranjska Gora
Indulge your taste buds with delicious local specialities!
The Upper Sava Valley boasts a varied culinary offer, ranging from traditional home-style cuisine to selected flavours of nouvelle cuisine. The valley’s gastronomic offer is complemented by restaurants that, with their family tradition of home-cooked dishes, preserve the authentic flavours of homeliness and a connection with nature.
Are you a fan of haute cuisine? Restaurants in Kranjska Gora boast international accolades such as Michelin stars, Gault & Millau caps, Bib Gourmand and chefs of international repute.
Traditional cuisine
“Traditional dishes give us a glimpse into the culinary diversity of the Upper Sava Valley. This means wealth of knowledge that is proportionate to man, his economic endeavours, social relationships, and forms of spiritual creativity. The stories of the everyday lives and festivities of the people we meet on short visits or during holidays in this beautiful valley at the foot of the mountains are revealed ‘through’ the dishes.”
Prof. Dr. Janez Bogataj
Sample the famous home-made dumplings, called “krapi”. Rateče is the home of cottage cheese dumplings (“špresovi krapi”) and dried pear dumplings (“kocovi krapi”). Both versions can be tasted in Rateče’s inns, namely Gostišče Uh and Gostilna Žerjav. In Zgornja Radovna, the Pri Psnaku Inn makes buckwheat-flour dumplings, and in Mojstrana, at the Tavern Pr’ Železnk, you can sample the Mojstrana version. Podkoren also has its own version of dumplings, made from a mixture of buckwheat and white flour, filled with polenta, cottage cheese and an egg. Meanwhile, in Dovje, dumplings are prepared using millet porridge, stuffed with cottage cheese. To make them even tastier, roasted onions and plenty of chopped chives are added to the filling.
Fine cuisine
The Milka restaurant at Jasna Lake, under the direction of Chef David Žafran, has made it onto the Michelin list with two Michelin stars. The restaurant Triangel, by young chef Jon Zupan, also made the Michelin list. It was awarded Bib Gourmand, which assesses value for money. If you love local flavours, you should definitely make it your business to Pino Alpino, which has been awarded two Gault & Millau caps. For meat or seafood lovers, a stop at the family-run Hotel Lipa marks the beginning of a culinary journey to a land of magical flavours created by the Perkolič family team.
