Bled Castle Restaurant
Bled €€€
Serves Upper Carniolan dishes in a castle above the lake, with a terrace seating about 100; lunch of three or more courses and the dinner tasting menu include the castle entrance fee.
Tables worth booking ahead: from castle dining rooms to lakeside terraces.
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Bled €€€
Serves Upper Carniolan dishes in a castle above the lake, with a terrace seating about 100; lunch of three or more courses and the dinner tasting menu include the castle entrance fee.
Postojna · Postojna & Karst €€
The restaurant occupies the Jamski Dvorec mansion beside the cave entrance, built in early-20th-century Italian style by Pietro Palumbo, serving traditional dishes with local specialities.
Bled €€
Run by one family since 1929, with more than 200 motorcycle-rally plaques in the pub room and a menu of cheese štruklji and Refošk tagliatelle with sage sauce.
Srednja vas v Bohinju · Bohinj €€
Fresh trout is a stated speciality, and the large terrace looks toward the Spodnje Bohinjske gore, with a children's play area close by and free parking.
Ljubljana €€
Opens at 07:00 every day and serves until 23:00; the menu is split into traditional Slovenian dishes, house specialities, grill, fish and vegetarian dishes, with a separate group menu.
Maribor €
The à la carte menu centres on grilled meats, with a separate beer shop stocking more than 80 world beers, in a building that also rents rooms above the restaurant.
Bohinjska Bistrica · Bohinj €
Serves Bohinj žganci from the local maize variety with sour milk, and potatoes in their skins with fresh cheese, in a room styled like a mountain hut.
Bovec · Soča Valley €€
The restaurant has been run for over forty years and put local dishes on its very first menu, Bovec sheep cheese, čompe with sheep's curd and krafi, which are still served today.
Kobarid · Soča Valley €€€€
Ana Roš cooks a single seasonal tasting menu in a rustic guesthouse whose legacy goes back to 1861, with trout, deer, goat, forest fruits and wild plants from the Soča valley on the plates; it holds three Michelin stars.
Postojna · Postojna & Karst €€
A mill on the Pivka where the water wheels have turned for five centuries, with 1593 carved in the door frame; the restaurant serves Slovenian dishes and grilled food in a shaded garden.
Ljubljana €€€€
Chef Igor Jagodic cooks in the round Archers' Tower of Ljubljana Castle, mixing Alpine, Adriatic and Pannonian cooking with medieval and traditional Slovenian touches; the Michelin Guide lists it.
Ukanc · Bohinj €€
Venison specialities, Lintvern craft beer brewed in Bohinj and Karakter gin distilled with Bohinj herbs, on a former Alpine pasture on the western shore of the lake.
Podkoren · Kranjska Gora €€
Game salami, sausages and cured meats are made and aged in the inn's own ageing chambers, served on a terrace facing the mountains and the village square of Podkoren.
Ljubljana €€
Breakfast eggs are named for Slovenian regions, such as Karst and Prekmurje eggs, and the boards list cured meats and cheeses from named small farms, served with a view of the Ljubljanica.
Bled €€
Hotel Park's pastry chefs have made the Original Bled cream cake here since 1953, served on a terrace facing the lake, the island and the castle.
Ljubljana €
The gostilna employs several people with special needs and lists slow-food dishes and varietal Slovenian wines alongside beef soup, kranjska klobasa, veal stew and štruklji.
Piran €
Order at the counter, take a numbered shell and wait for fried calamari with polenta; the interior is wood with green vine trellises, and a few tables sit on a terrace.
Kranjska Gora €€
A guesthouse has stood by Lake Jasna since 1929 and the inn reopened in June 2025 after about 20 years; it also offers a dinner-without-phones concept where guests leave their devices in a hut of silence.
Bled €€
A short seasonal menu built on Slovenian ingredients and a wine list of Slovenian and international labels, a few steps from the lake promenade with a view of the island and castle.
Kranjska Gora €€€€
Two Michelin stars and chef David Žefran's menu of preserved produce, wild berries, mountain herbs and conifer branches, with Slovenian wines and in-house cocktails made over ice from Slovenian spring water.
Piran €€
Adriatic fish, prawns and fresh seafood pasta, starting with anchovies in olive oil and seaside olives, served from a narrow Piran alley with several outdoor seating areas.
Mojstrana · Kranjska Gora €
Home-cooked meals from tried recipes in Mojstrana, open from 10:00 until 22:00 at weekends, with space for private parties and a wide drinks list.
Piran €€
Family-run Istrian and Venetian cooking known for fish soup, shrimp gnocchi and black cuttlefish risotto, with over 40 wines from Primorska, Kras, the Vipava Valley and Goriška Brda.
Kobarid · Soča Valley €€
Fish arrives from the hotel's own fishermen in Savudrija and trout from the Kobarid fish farm, and the kitchen makes Kobariški štruklji to grandmother Pepca's recipe, with venison from local hunters.
Maribor €€€€
Chef David Vračko opened MAK in 2011 after ten years working abroad; guests do not choose dishes, as the restaurant serves a shorter tasting menu at lunch and a longer one in the evening.
Stara Fužina · Bohinj €€
Chef Timi Rožič, back in his native Bohinj, builds a short seasonal menu from local produce, and guests can assemble their own 3-, 4- or 5-course tasting menu.
Bovec · Soča Valley €€€
Chef Tomaž Sovdat and his team cook from local seasonal produce in Log pod Mangartom; both chefs trained at Hiša Franko and Dobra Vila Bovec, and the Slovenian wine list leans towards natural wines.
Maribor €€
Students of the Maribor hospitality and tourism college do the professional work under mentors, in what the school calls the first school restaurant in Slovenia run on this model; lunch tasting menus are served 11:00-15:00.
Maribor €€€
Open since 2006, the restaurant cooks fresh to order without industrial additives, and its wine cellar holds 10,000 bottles of more than 1,000 labels, some of them magnums.
Postojna · Postojna & Karst €€
Opened in 1991 by Jana and David; the Neapolitan pizza dough rests 48 hours and bakes at 450 °C using Italian ingredients.
Tomaj · Postojna & Karst €€
The Škerlj family has farmed on Tabor Hill since a 1630 record; the kitchen cooks from the farm's own produce, meat and wine, and teran ripens in the red terra rossa soil.