Bulgaria Food Guide

Bulgaria’s food is very rustic fare, wholesome, well balanced and with a good mix of flavours, sometimes surprisingly spicy for a European cuisine. The people consume a large amount of meat, fish - there’s a particularly good fish soup from the Danube region, and Sozopol-style mussels are famous throughout the country, and lots of vegetables. Foods are often stewed or grilled, and served with a wide range of cheeses, bread rolls and wines. Among Bulgaria’s best-known dishes - many of which are shared with, or influenced by, nearby Greece, are Bansko-style kapama, a meat and vegetable stew, banitsa (cheese pie), stuffed vine leaves, moussaka, baklava, and pancakes with honey and walnuts. Coffee is a specialty of the Bulgarians, and is consumed in almost as large quantities as the wines are.