Struklji are rolled dumplings filled with sweet or savoury fillings, served as a starter, side or dessert. Cottage cheese, walnut, tarragon and apple are the.
Struklji appear in 16th-century Slovenian cookbooks and remain the most versatile dish of the national kitchen. Boiled or steamed in a cloth, sliced and served warm with melted butter and breadcrumbs. Slovenian gostilne run both sweet (cottage cheese with raisins) and savoury (mushroom, buckwheat) variants. Druga Violina runs a daily rotating struklji menu.
3 editor picks for Struklji in Ljubljana, ranked by editorial score. All Ljubljana signature dishes · Struklji across every city.
Druga Violina ★ 4.3
stari-grad · Stari trg 21, 1000 Ljubljana
Druga Violina on Stari trg is a social-enterprise gostilna run by the CUDV Draga centre, employing adults with special needs. The kitchen sticks to Slovenian.
Slovenska hisa Figovec ★ 4.3
center · Gosposvetska cesta 1, 1000 Ljubljana
Figovec opened in 1879 as a coachman's inn and reopened as Slovenska hisa Figovec, plating the canonical Slovenian table from kranjska klobasa to prekmurska.
Vodnikov Hram ★ 4.2
vodnikov-trg · Vodnikov trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana
Vodnikov Hram on the market square has a kitchen that has continuously served Slovenian classics since the 19th century, with grilled meats.