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Cheap, Filling but Dull Food at Zlati Lev

  • April 4, 2009
  • Rated 3 of 5 by fizzytom from Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Cheap, Filling but Dull Food at Zlati Lev

Situated in the Lent district on the edge of the town centre and beside the new market place, Zlati Lev (which translates as the Golden Lion) is another value for money gostilna (roughly translated as an "inn" that serves traditional food). It’s a sprawling place with several rooms that is always much busier at lunch time than in the evenings, possibly because of its proximity to the university and the fact that it offers special three course meal offers for students.

While it does serve some traditional food it isn’t that Slovene and I’d say the food is more safe and simple than strictly Slovenian. It does however serve excellent cevapcici – a Balkan speciality – little spicy sausages with a lepinja (a flat bread cake) and ajvar – a spicy relish made with aubergine and peppers or pleskavica which is a flat pattie made of the same spicy meat. Cevapcici costs 5 Euro and is a really delicious and filling dish. The dunaj schnitzel is another good choice and costs 5 Euro too.
If you fancy something lighter there are soups, salads and vegetarian dishes.

The menu is in Slovene and German; no English is spoken. The staff speak to me in German now, even when I try to speak Slovene. What is quite odd is that it seems to take longer to get served in the evening when the place is almost empty than it does at lunchtime when the place is packed out.

The interior is a little dull and in the evenings it can be a bit dark. There are separate rooms and in winter our favourite one is the very back room that has a great fire that looks real but actually isn’t.

The Zlati Lev is a place for reasonably cheap filling food but not one in which to find culinary delight. Recommended for cheap eats and somewhere that is usually open when everything else is closed.

Dinner for two with drinks 17 Euro 80

Open daily 07.00 – midnight

Vodnikov trg 4
2000 Maribor
Phone: ++386 2 250 80 80

From journal The Magic of Maribor

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