Ciorbă rădăuțeană is the chicken version of Romanian sour soup, originally a Rădăuți specialty: chicken breast in lemon-and-cream soured broth with garlic and parsley, the lighter cousin of ciorbă de burtă.
Created in the 1970s by chef Cornel Pătrăuceanu of the Hotel Nordic restaurant in Rădăuți (north Romania), as a chicken-based alternative for diners squeamish about tripe. The dish spread south through restaurant menus and became a national Romanian sour-soup classic, with Bucharest restaurants picking it up by the 1990s.
5 editor picks for Ciorbă rădăuțeană in Bucharest, ranked by editorial score. All Bucharest signature dishes · Ciorbă rădăuțeană across every city.
Caru' cu bere ★ 4.6
lipscani · Strada Stavropoleos 5, 030107 București
The 1879 Caru' cu bere on Stavropoleos serves the soul of Bucharest dining, where mici were recorded in a 1920 chef's letter to the Academy.
Lacrimi și Sfinți ★ 4.5
lipscani · Strada Șepcari 16, Old Town, București 030116
Poet Mircea Dinescu's Lacrimi și Sfinți on Șepcari pours wines from his Cetate estate alongside modern Romanian classics in Bucharest Old Town today.
Vatra ★ 4.3
cismigiu · Strada Ion Brezoianu 19, 010131 București
Vatra on Brezoianu cooks traditional Romanian on bakestones and in tin kettles, in a 1920s Transylvanian interior next to Cișmigiu Park in Bucharest.
Crama Domnească ★ 4.1
lipscani · Strada Șelari 13-15, Old Town, București
Crama Domnească sits in the cellar of the Princely Court on Șelari, the Princely Wine Cellar in Bucharest, with live folk and house wines by carafe.
La Mama (Lipscani) ★ 3.9
lipscani · Strada Lipscani 36, 030033 București
La Mama on Lipscani is the Bucharest chain doing Romanian home cooking at scale: oversized sarmale, ciorbă bowls, big-portion papanași for dessert.