8 splurge rooms in Plovdiv, editor-picked. tasting menus and the full big-night-out treatment in Plovdiv. All Plovdiv food.
Nobel by Chef Shishkov ★ 4.7
ul. Veliko Tarnovo 19, 4000 Plovdiv
Nobel inside Residence City Garden Hotel is Chef Tanyo Shishkov's Plovdiv table. Modern Bulgarian fine dining near Tsar Simeon Garden and the Town Hall.
Salt and Pepper ★ 4.7
ul. Hristo G. Danov 34, 4000 Plovdiv
Chef Nikolay Boroukov runs one of the few Plovdiv kitchens that takes fine dining seriously. Modern Mediterranean with original menus beyond the classics.
Pavaj ★ 4.7
ul. Zlatarska 7, 4000 Plovdiv
Raycho Markov runs farm-driven Bulgarian cooking from his father's farm 20 km out; Pavaj is the Kapana flagship for the modern Plovdiv table.
Nobel by Chef Shishkov ★ 4.6
centre · ul. Veliko Tarnovo 19, 4000 Plovdiv
Chef Tanyo Shishkov's Plovdiv flagship in the Residence City Garden Hotel near Tsar Simeon Garden. Bulgaria's celebrity chef cooking refined fine dining.
Tams House ★ 4.6
ul. Zagreb 4, 4000 Plovdiv
Tams House (opened 2018) is the Kapana author table. Modern Bulgarian seasonal cooking from small regional farms, named one of the city's best new rooms.
Hemingway ★ 4.5
ul. Gen. Gurko 10, 4000 Plovdiv
Hemingway sits in a 1930s modernist building on Gurko Street. Refined seasonal Bulgarian and European cooking, deep Bulgarian and international wine list.
Restaurant Philippopolis ★ 4.4
ul. Saborna 29, 4000 Plovdiv
Gallery-restaurant on Saborna Street in Old Plovdiv. The garden sits on a Roman wall above Kapana, with Bulgarian and European cooking in a Revival room.
Memory Wine and Dine ★ 4.4
pl. Saedinenie 3, 4000 Plovdiv
Memory is the Plovdiv address for Bulgarian wine lovers. Saedinenie Square setting, summer garden, piano jazz weekends, deep Bulgarian wine cellar.