Zganci is the Slovenian Alpine answer to polenta, a buckwheat or maize porridge served with bacon crackling, sour milk or sauerkraut. A TableJourney pick.
Zganci is the working-day winter staple of the Slovenian Alpine peasantry, eaten through the cold months with whatever fat and ferment was available. Buckwheat is the most traditional grain in Carniola, though maize zganci exist further south. Ja, pr' Lectar runs a faithful version in the Ljubljana old town.
3 editor picks for Zganci in Ljubljana, ranked by editorial score. All Ljubljana signature dishes · Zganci across every city.
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.
Ja, pr' Lectar ★ 4.1
stari-grad · Stari trg 17, 1000 Ljubljana
Lectar's Radovljica inn anchored Slovenian tradition since 1822 and the family opened Ja, pr' Lectar on Stari trg in 2025 to bring it to the capital.
Gostilna Sokol ★ 4.1
stari-grad · Ciril-Metodov trg 18, 1000 Ljubljana
Sokol opened in 1870 in an old bourgeois house steps from the Town Hall. The kitchen sticks to indigenous Slovenian cooking, kranjska klobasa.