Eat in Old Town, Plovdiv

Restaurant Philippopolis

• ★ 4.4
• Bulgarian and European
• $$$

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.

Restaurant Alafrangite

• ★ 4.3
• Traditional Bulgarian
• $$

Restaurant Alafrangite occupies an 18th-century Revival house with a courtyard garden in Old Plovdiv. Traditional Bulgarian salads and meat dishes anchor.

Boris Palace

• ★ 4.3
• Bulgarian and European
• $$$

Boris Palace, a Saborna Street Revival mansion turned boutique hotel, serves Bulgarian and European cooking with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options.

Odeon Restaurant

• ★ 4.1
• Bulgarian
• $$

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.

Puldin Restaurant

• ★ 4.0
• Traditional Bulgarian
• $$$

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.

Kafene Philippopolis

• ★ 4.2
• Café
• $

Order Bulgarian black coffee, mountain herb tea

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.

Snack Shop Old Town

• ★ 3.9
• Bakery
• $

Order Sirene banitsa

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.

Philippopolis Wine Garden

• ★ 4.3
• Wine bar
• $$$

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.

Bulgaria Wine Tours: Craft Beer and Wine Tour (Plovdiv)

• ★ 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.

Bulgaria Wine Tours

• ★ 4.5

Bulgaria Wine Tours runs a full-day Thracian Valley outing from Plovdiv, visiting two local wineries including Villa Yustina at Ustina, with a tasting of five local wines at each.

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.

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.

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.