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.
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Tables worth booking ahead: from castle dining rooms to lakeside terraces.
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Gostilna Pri Planincu
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.
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Gostilna Sokol
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.
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Gostilna Zlati Lev
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.
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Gostišče Martinov hram
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.
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Hiša Franko
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.
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Restavracija Strelec
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.
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Restavracija Vitranc
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.
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Slovenska Hiša
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.
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Gostilna Jasna - jedi treh dežel
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.
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Old Cellar Bled
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.
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Restaurant Milka
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.
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Restavracija MAK
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.
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Restavracija Majerca
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.
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Restavracija Mangrt
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.
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Restavracija Sedem
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.
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Rožmarin Restaurant & Wine Bar
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.
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Čuk Restaurant & Pizzeria
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.
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Škerlj Tourist Farm
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.