Shopska Salad appears as a signature dish in 1 Bulgaria cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Shopska salad · Plovdiv
The Bulgarian national salad: tomato, cucumber, raw or roasted pepper and onion, all crowned with a snowfall of grated sirene cheese. Eaten with rakia and bread.
Codified by the Bulgarian state tourism agency Balkanturist in 1955 as the national salad to promote to foreign visitors, with the colours (red, white, green) matching the Bulgarian flag. Shopska is named for the Shopi people of western Bulgaria; today it is the canonical Bulgarian opening course, eaten with rakia and bread before every shared meal in Plovdiv and across the country.
Where to eat in Plovdiv:
- Stariyat Plovdiv
- Pavaj
- Aylyakria
- Restaurant Alafrangite