During Restaurant Week from 18^th to 27^th June, Slovenian chefs will demonstrate why Slovenia is the 2021 European Region of Gastronomy

The tastiest spring week of the year in Slovenia, which is so good it actually lasts 10 days, is approaching and the epidemiological picture is improving by the day. This year, 99 restaurants ranked in the critics’ choice will take part in Spring Restaurant Week from 18^th to 27^th June and, in doing so, will proclaim a return to ‘normal’ life in the country.

In 2020, despite the pandemic, over 100,000 guests visited Slovenia’s Restaurant Week in spring and autumn. This year’s Restaurant Week will be even more special, not only because of the normalisation of life after the COVID-19 crisis, but also because of the title European Region of Gastronomy that Slovenia holds in 2021. Restaurant Week will therefore be the first event of the ‘culinary presidency’, when the crème of Slovenia’s restaurants will be able to prove that they are truly up there with the best in Europe.

Hiša ančka TR2020j, Korenčkova torta, foto Tomo Jeseničnik

Booking from 7^th June

The European Region of Gastronomy is thus the main theme of Spring Restaurant Week, for which reservations open on 7^th June. By that date, the official website www.tedenrestavracija.si will be updated with all the menus – a minimum of three courses – that the chefs will prepare for their most popular presentation.

Taking into account all the current epidemiological measures, as well as those of the Slovenian Institute for National Health, that will be in force at that time, Slovenia’s restaurants, which have been closed for more than 6 months – since autumn Restaurant Week which ended after eight days due to the epidemic – will be full again. As measures are also being relaxed in neighbouring countries it is becoming increasingly possible to cross borders, thus Restaurant Week will also be an opportunity for foreign guests to return. For them, too, the race for reservations will start on 7^th June via the English Restaurant Week website.

Otherwise, its ‘business as usual’. Each participating restaurant will prepare one or more menus with a minimum of three courses and at a set price. The price of the menus is EUR 19, which has remained unchanged since 2019. However, since last year Restaurant Week introduced a supplement for quality at the best rated restaurants (3 and 4 hearts, EUR 6), this year it will be extended to restaurants with two hearts and an additional EUR 2 (price EUR 21).

Therefore, soon, once again: Choose, Reserve, Enjoy!

The Slovenian Tourist Board (STO) is the sponsor of Restaurant Week

As has been the case for many years, and is also this case this year when Slovenia has been declared the ‘European Region of Gastronomy’, the Slovenian Tourist Board (STO) is the sponsor of Restaurant Week. The STO is also the most prolific promoter of Slovenian cuisine abroad.

Maja Pak, Director of the Slovenian Tourist Board
“Restaurant Week actively helps to present the best that Slovenian gastronomy has to offer. It is all the more important this year when, after more than a seven-month hiatus due to the pandemic, Spring Restaurant Week once again invites guests to Slovenia and its restaurants.

As Slovenia is also the holder of the important title of ‘European Region of Gastronomy’ this year, Spring Restaurant Week is an opportunity to prove this in practice. During Restaurant Week, the best of the country’s cuisine will prove that Slovenia is not just a ‘European Region of Gastronomy’ in name, it will also remain so for year after year.”

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