Cozonac appears as a signature dish in 1 Romania cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Cozonac · Bucharest
Cozonac is the Romanian sweet braided bread, an enriched yeast dough wound with walnut, cocoa, Turkish delight or poppyseed filling. The Easter and Christmas table centre, sold by bakeries through November and December.
Cozonac descends from the same Mediterranean-Ottoman enriched-bread tradition that produced Greek tsoureki and Bulgarian kozunak; the name shares roots with the Greek koksonaki. The braided format with multiple fillings is Romanian and southern-Slavic, and the Bucharest version centres on walnut and cocoa. Christmas Eve and Easter Sunday households still bake whole cozonac that families gift to one another.
Where to eat in Bucharest:
- Luca Bakery
- Boutique du Pain
- French Bakery Bucharest
- Caru' cu bere
- Lacrimi și Sfinți