Restaurant Philippopolis ★ 4.4
Gallery-restaurant on Saborna Street in Old Plovdiv with a garden perched on a Roman wall above Kapana. National and European tastes in a Revival house.
Signature: Garden Bulgarian mezze, Grilled meats
Restaurants in Old Town
Restaurant Alafrangite ★ 4.3
Restaurant Alafrangite occupies an 18th-century Revival house with a courtyard garden in Old Plovdiv. Traditional Bulgarian salads and meat dishes anchor.
Signature: Sarmi, Grilled lamb
Boris Palace ★ 4.3
Boris Palace, a Saborna Street Revival mansion turned boutique hotel, serves Bulgarian and European cooking with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options.
Signature: Garden Bulgarian mezze, Slow-roasted lamb
Odeon Restaurant ★ 4.1
Odeon Hotel-Restaurant on Otets Paisiy serves classic Bulgarian cooking with a covered courtyard, a few minutes' walk from the Old Town's southern gate.
Signature: Kavarma, Kebapche
Puldin Restaurant ★ 4.0
Puldin sits in a 19th-century Revival merchant's house high in Old Plovdiv. The terrace looks across the city; the kitchen runs classic Bulgarian banqueting.
Signature: Sarmi, Grilled trout
Casual Dining in Old Town
Restaurant Alafrangite ★ 4.3
Restaurant Alafrangite occupies an 18th-century Revival house with a courtyard garden in Old Plovdiv. Bulgarian salads and meat dishes anchor the long menu.
Signature: Sarmi, Bulgarian salads
Boris Palace ★ 4.3
Boris Palace, a Saborna Street Revival mansion turned boutique hotel, serves Bulgarian and European with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options.
Signature: Bulgarian mezze plate, Slow-roasted lamb
Odeon Restaurant ★ 4.1
Odeon Hotel-Restaurant on Otets Paisiy serves classic Bulgarian cooking with a covered courtyard, a few minutes' walk from the Old Town's southern gate.
Signature: Kavarma, Kebapche
Puldin Restaurant ★ 4.0
Puldin sits in a 19th-century Revival merchant's house high in Old Plovdiv. The terrace looks across the city; the kitchen runs classic Bulgarian banqueting.
Signature: Sarmi, Grilled trout
Cafés in Old Town
Kafene Philippopolis ★ 4.2
The Philippopolis gallery garden on Saborna runs an Old Town cafe through the day. Roman wall under the seats, Kapana below, slow drinks until the restaurant.
Signature drink: Bulgarian black coffee, mountain herb tea
Bakeries in Old Town
Snack Shop Old Town ★ 3.9
A no-frills Old Town pastry counter on Saborna runs the morning queue for sirene banitsa, kifli and milinki. Open by sunrise, sold out by lunch most days.
Worth the queue: Sirene banitsa
Wine Bars in Old Town
Philippopolis Wine Garden ★ 4.3
Philippopolis runs a wine garden on a Roman wall above Kapana. Bulgarian and European cellar, summer pours over the rooftops of the Trap quarter below.
Signature pour: Thracian Valley reserve
Wine focus: Bulgarian and European wines
Food: Bulgarian mezze, refined plates
Food Tours in Old Town
★ 4.3
Full-day Craft Beer and Wine Tour from Plovdiv pairing one boutique Thracian Valley winery (5-wine tasting with appetisers) with one rural brewery outside.
★ 4.5
Full-day Thracian Valley wine outing from Plovdiv: Villa Yustina in Ustina village (vineyard park, Agro Yustina goat farm and a 5-wine tasting.
Plovdiv Tours Private Guided Walking Tour ★ 4.4
Plovdiv Tours runs a private guided walking tour with food and rakia stops, starting at the Roman Stadium of Philippopolis and finishing with an Old Town wine cellar stop in the Kapana creative quarter.
Food Festivals in Old Town
Young Wine Festival Plovdiv ★ 4.7
The 17th Young Wine Festival turns Old Town Revival houses into a showcase: 46 wineries and 16 artisan food producers across seventeen 19th-century mansions.
Trifon Zarezan Wine Saint Day ★ 4.6
Bulgaria's wine saint day. Asenovgrad vineyards south of Plovdiv hold the first pruning ritual; the city's wine bars pour Mavrud through the evening.
Plovdiv City Wine Festival ★ 4.3
Early-October wine festival across Plovdiv Old Town: Bulgarian wineries pour in Revival houses with food pairings, tastings open to the public throughout.
Cooking Classes in Old Town
Banitsa and Phyllo Workshop ★ 4.3
Three-hour banitsa workshop in a Revival house in Old Town. Stretch your own phyllo by hand, fill with sirene and yoghurt, eat with Bulgarian coffee.
Traditional Bulgarian Breakfast Workshop with Villi ★ 4.3
Villi hosts a Bulgarian breakfast workshop in Plovdiv's Old Town, walking up to 12 guests through the princess sandwich, mekitsa and a small banitsa. Hands-on session with a sit-down family-table finish.