20 restaurants in Ljubljana, editor-picked for monday dinner. Open on monday, the day most kitchens go dark. All restaurants in Ljubljana.
JAZ by Ana Ros ★ 4.7
center · Copova ulica 5a, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Sat 7:00-24:00, Sun Closed
Ana Ros's Ljubljana casual concept on Copova, opened 2023. Head chef Alex Iacoviello (ex-Hisa Franko) runs daily sharing plates off the Central Market.
Landerik ★ 4.6
stari-grad · Stari trg 11, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Daily 12:00-17:00, 18:00-22:00
Landerik is chef Izidor Krzisnik's Stari trg tasting-only room. Ex-Mirazur pedigree, listed in the Michelin Guide for modern-Slovenian local-producer cooking.
Breg ★ 4.6
center · Breg 20, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Daily 12:00-22:00
Breg is Jorg Zupan's neo-gostilna with partner Matjaz Ivanc, opened 2021 in the old Vitez rooms on the Ljubljanica. Fatty-and-delicious is the brief.
Gostilna As ★ 4.5
center · Copova ulica 5a, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Thu 10:00-24:00, Fri-Sat 10:00-1:00, Sun Closed
Gostilna As in the Knafljev passage pairs Karst seafood and handmade pasta with a 300-bottle Slovenian wine list, open since the late 1980s era.
TaBar ★ 4.5
center-rog · Ribji trg 6, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Sat 11:00-24:00, Sun Closed
TaBar reopened in 2024 in the renovated Rog factory complex, where chef Jakob Pintar plates Slovenian tapas around foraged ingredients and a tight.
Aftr ★ 4.5
center · Nazorjeva ulica 2, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Fri 12:00-15:00, 18:00-22:00, Sat 10:00-15:00, 18:00-22:00, Sun 10:00-15:00, 15:00-1:00
Chef Jorg Zupan rebranded his one-star Atelje into Aftr in 2021, swapping the tasting menu for a relaxed a la carte room with the same kitchen technique.
Spajza ★ 4.4
stari-grad · Gornji trg 28, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Fri 17:00-23:00, Sat 12:00-23:00, Sun 12:00-22:00
Spajza on Gornji trg below the castle is one of Ljubljana's longer-running fine bistros, plating aged steaks and seafood in wood-and-vintage rooms.
Gostilna na Gradu ★ 4.4
stari-grad · Grajska planota 1, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Sat 12:00-22:00, Sun 12:00-17:00
Gostilna na Gradu shares the castle hill with Strelec but works in a folk register, pulling dishes from Slovenia's 24 gastronomic regions. Listed as Michelin.
Pen Klub ★ 4.4
center · Tomsiceva ulica 12, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Fri 12:00-22:00, Sat 17:00-22:00, Sun Closed
Pen Klub on Tomsiceva is the Kaval Group's relaxed sibling to Strelec, where chef Mojmir Marko Siftar plates contemporary European cooking with Slovenian.
Slovenska hisa Figovec ★ 4.3
center · Gosposvetska cesta 1, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Thu 8:00-24:00, Fri-Sat 8:00-1:00, Sun 9:00-24:00
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.
Pop's Place ★ 4.3
center · Cankarjevo nabrezje 3, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Daily 12:00-01:00
Pop's Place is the riverside burger bar run by the same family behind Gostilna As, plating gourmet burgers with local beef and a long craft-beer list.
Klobasarna ★ 4.3
stari-grad · Ciril Metodov trg 15, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Sat 10:00-23:00, Sun 10:00-15:00
Klobasarna is the fast-counter shrine to kranjska klobasa, the protected Carniolan sausage served with Kaiser roll, mustard and fresh horseradish.
Gostilna Sestica ★ 4.2
center · Slovenska cesta 40, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00-23:00, Sat 12:00-23:00, Sun 12:00-22:00
Sestica has been a Ljubljana inn since 1776, the city's oldest restaurant, plating Slovenian classics, game and house-made pasta from the menu.
Slovenska hisa ★ 4.2
center · Cankarjevo nabrezje 13, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Thu 08:00-01:30, Fri-Sat 08:00-02:00, Sun 08:00-01:30
The riverside sister of Figovec, Slovenska hisa serves breakfast, lunch and evening plates on Cankarjevo nabrezje. Protected Slovenian dishes from struklji.
Gostilna Sokol ★ 4.1
stari-grad · Ciril-Metodov trg 18, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Daily 7:00-23:00
Sokol opened in 1870 in an old bourgeois house steps from the Town Hall. The kitchen sticks to indigenous Slovenian cooking, kranjska klobasa.
Ribca ★ 4.1
vodnikov-trg · Adamic-Lundrovo nabrezje 1, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon 10:00-16:00, Tue-Fri 10:00-21:00, Sat-Sun 11:00-18:00
Ribca sits below Plečnik's colonnaded arcade by the river fish market, sourcing all its seafood from the stalls upstairs at the basement counter.
Ja, pr' Lectar ★ 4.1
stari-grad · Stari trg 17, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Daily 12:00-21:00
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.
Hood Burger Center ★ 4.0
center · Nazorjeva 4, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Sat 11:00-23:00, closed Sun
Hood Burger opened in 2012 in a Vic shipping container and now runs three Ljubljana rooms; the Center counter near Preseren keeps gluten-free options.
Hot Horse Tivoli ★ 3.9
center · Park Tivoli, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Sun-Thu 09:00-24:00, Fri-Sat 09:00-02:00
Hot Horse founder Jure Azman started the original horseburger in 1995, claiming a Slovenian street creation. Kitchen leans slovenian burger kiosk.
Joe Pena's Cantina y Bar ★ 3.9
center · Cankarjeva cesta 6, 1000 Ljubljana
Hours: Mon-Thu 12:00-01:00, Fri-Sat 10:00-02:30, Sun 12:00-22:00
Joe Pena's has been Ljubljana's reference Mexican kitchen since 1998, plating nachos to fajitas in a Cankarjeva room with a non-smoking gallery and a summer.