Crème de la Crème Patisserie
Order Vienna-style coffee with French croissant
Crème de la Crème Patisserie in Chișinău is the ground-floor Parisian counter under the Provençal café, baking croissants, eclairs and custom cakes daily.
17 cheap eats places in Chișinău, editor-picked. The best low-budget spots in Chișinău: the places editors actually return to. All Chișinău food.
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Raccoon Coffee
Drink House-roasted single-origin filter
Raccoon Coffee on Strada Armenească in central Chișinău roasts its own beans in-house and pours rotating single-origin filters and espresso from a small.
Pasio Coffee
Drink Espresso flight
Pasio Coffee on Strada Vasile Alecsandri in Chișinău is the small specialty bar where the baristas pour for regulars, with rotating single-origins by week.
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Crème de la Crème
Drink Vienna-style coffee with French croissant
Crème de la Crème on Strada Alexandru cel Bun in Chișinău is the three-storey Parisian patisserie and café, with the Provençal main floor open from 08:00.
Dulcinella
Order Ion cake with wafers, chocolate ganache and condensed-milk cream
Dulcinella in Chișinău is the multi-branch pastry shop best known for the Ion cake, with custom-order cakes and a separate vegan dessert sub-menu.
Coffee Monkey
Drink Flat white
Coffee Monkey on Strada Pușkin 22 in Chișinău is the bright blue-and-white specialty bar that locals call the coffee hotspot of the city centre.
La Plăcinte (Ștefan cel Mare 3)
Order A mixed plate of plăcinte: cheese, cabbage and pumpkin slices, with smântână.
La Plăcinte on Ștefan cel Mare 3 is the central Chișinău branch of the Moldovan chain that turned the street plăcintă into a sit-down restaurant.
Granier
Order Plăcintă with cottage cheese and cherries
Granier in Chișinău is the all-day bakery chain on Ștefan cel Mare and beyond, baking honey cake, plăcinte and almond rings that sell out by closing.
Patisserie Caramel
Order Eclair with vanilla cream
Patisserie Caramel on Bănulescu-Bodoni 45 in Chișinău is the French-style patisserie and café with eclairs, red velvet, tarts and a small outdoor terrace.
Feeling Coffee
Drink Cortado
Feeling Coffee on Strada 31 August 1989 in Chișinău is the seasonal-flowers jazz-bar coffee room, one of the newest specialty spots in the centre.
Piața Centrală street-food stalls
- ★ 4.2
- Street food
- $
- Centru
Try Plăcinte, chebureks, mititei and grilled corn (15 to 25 MDL each)
The Piața Centrală street-food cluster on Mitropolit Varlaam in Chișinău is where the city eats plăcinte by the slice, mititei, chebureks and grilled corn.
La Plăcinte (Hâncești 58)
Order Plăcinte with cabbage and cheese, mămăligă with brânză and smântână on the side.
La Plăcinte on Șoseaua Hâncești 58 is the Botanica-side branch of Moldova's plăcinte chain, with the largest dine-in room and a kids' play area attached.
Tucano Coffee Costa Rica
Drink Single-origin filter coffee
Tucano Coffee Costa Rica on Strada Pușkin in Chișinău is the central Moldovan-born specialty-coffee chain (Chișinău, 2011), serving 100% Specialty Arabica.
La Mamuca
- ★ 4.1
- Street food
- $
- Centru
Try Plăcinte by the slice (cheese, cabbage, potato) and chebureks
La Mămuca on Strada Pușkin 22 is the takeaway plăcinte counter where the tray turns over every hour and the in-house cheburek fryer runs behind the window.
Andy's Pizza (Pușkin 32)
Try Pizza by the slice, mushroom soup in bread bowl
Andy's Pizza on Strada Pușkin 32 is the 24-hour branch of Moldova's pizza chain, with pizza by the slice and the mushroom soup in a bread bowl under 150 MDL.
Andy's Pizza (Ștefan cel Mare 77)
Order Cream of mushroom soup in a bread bowl with the Capricioasa pizza.
Andy's Pizza on Ștefan cel Mare in Chișinău is the central branch of Moldova's homegrown pizza chain, open into the late hours with a 24/7 sister branch.
Andy's Pizza (Mircea cel Bătrân 12)
Order Mushroom soup in a bread bowl with a Capricioasa pizza to share.
Andy's Pizza on Bulevardul Mircea cel Bătrân in Chișinău is the Ciocana branch of Moldova's homegrown chain, with a wide pizza list and a 24/7 sister nearby.
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