Banitsa is the Bulgarian filo pastry, layered with sirene cheese, yoghurt and egg, baked until the top sheets blister; in Bulgaria we have verified places to eat it in Plovdiv. Start with where to eat Banitsa in Plovdiv.
Banitsa · Plovdiv
Banitsa is the Bulgarian filo pastry, layered with sirene cheese, yoghurt and egg, baked until the top sheets blister. Ate hot for breakfast across Plovdiv.
Banitsa appears in 12th-century Bulgarian monastic kitchens, refined under Ottoman rule with phyllo techniques shared across the Balkans. The Bulgarian Revival cemented sirene-and-yoghurt as the canonical filling. Plovdiv counters still queue from sunrise for the marmalade and sirene variants, and the dish is eaten hot for breakfast across the Kapana and Old Town neighbourhoods on weekday mornings.
Where to eat in Plovdiv:
- Mekitsa and Coffee
- Hali Banitsa Counter
- Gibb Bakery
- Aylyakria
Where to eat Banitsa in Plovdiv: the editor picks