Local cusine


Food and Drink

    Here your Rovinj hosts have difficulty in making recommendations. Since Rovinj offers so many different establishments, you will have to choose for yourself. For your information, the town and the surrounding area offer many attractive places to suit even the  most discering guests - specialist fish restaurants, wine cellars, taverns, patisseries, soft drinks bars, rotisseries and bars for all tastes and palates.

Typical food

Istrian smoked ham, sheep milk cheese, truffles "Manestra" (vegetable stew)
Home-made pasta: "fuzi", gnocchi, lasagna, macaroni with game stew
Meat dishes: home-made sausages, smoked fillet with sauerkraut
Seafood dishes: pilchard marinade, stew made of fish, sea
shells, crabs or squids
Fish: gold fish, base, grooper, sea-bream...
Salads: made of crabs, octopus, musk octopus...
Sea-shells: oysters, scallops, "dondolw", mussels...
Sweets: "krostule", "fritule", "povetica", "cukerancici"

Typical wines

Malvazija-white wine
Teran-red wine
Borgonja-red wine
Hrvatica-rose

Fine wines

Pinot - white and gray
Chardonnay - white wine
Cabernet-red wine
Merlot-red wine
Muskat-white wine

Aperitifs and digestives

Home made brandy-with aromatic herbs
Biska-spezial brandy (Roc, Hum)
Komovica-spezial brandy