Mititei is a signature dish of Moldova; we have verified places to eat it in Chișinău. Grilled minced meat rolls, finger-sized and thumb-thick, seasoned with garlic, black pepper, thyme and a touch of baking soda for the springy bite that defines the dish. Start with where to eat Mititei in Chișinău.
Mititei · Chișinău
Grilled minced meat rolls, finger-sized and thumb-thick, seasoned with garlic, black pepper, thyme and a touch of baking soda for the springy bite that defines the dish.
Mititei trace through the Balkans (Serbia, Greece and Turkey) into 19th-century Bucharest, where the dish is first documented in 1870 by Ulysse de Marsillac and named in 1872 by N. T. Orășanu. A popular Romanian legend credits Iordache Ionescu's tavern on Strada Covaci in Bucharest, where Uncle Iordache supposedly ran out of sausage casings and grilled the seasoned meat directly on the grates. The name means little ones, from Romanian mic, and the dish crossed the Prut into Bessarabia where it became the standard summer-grill order at Moldovan beer gardens. In Chișinău it lands on every grill from Pegas to the Beer Mania festival.
Where to eat in Chișinău:
- Pegas Terrace & Restaurant
- Sălcioara
- Beer House
- La Taifas
Where to eat Mititei in Chișinău: the editor picks