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Budget Dining with Luxury Views

  • August 22, 2009
  • Rated 4 of 5 by fizzytom from Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Budget Dining with Luxury Views

In a town that can be expensive, Pizzerija Pletna, over looking Lake Bled, represents reasonable value. It’s situated in the little hamlet of Mlino on the southern side of the lake, about ten to fifteen minutes walk from the main part of town. The interior of the restaurant is clean and comfortable enough but not very exciting; however, do yourself a favour and venture upstairs to bag a table on the terrace which will give you a wonderful view of the lake. To be honest you’d expect to pay more to eat somewhere with such a lovely view so this does make Pletna stand out.

Pizzas are the speciality and the restaurant has a wood burning pizza oven but both times I have eaten here (some five years apart) I have eaten the cevapcici which are among the best I’ve tasted in Slovenia . For the uninitiated, cevapcici are "little kebabs" – small sausages formed from spiced ground meat and served with ajvar – a relish made from aubergine and red peppers. It’s really a Bosnian dish but it’s eaten all over Slovenia too. In many places you get the sausages with a flat bread bun called a lepinja but at Pletna it comes with fries and a reasonable salad on the side (more than a garnish but not as much as a side salad). In August 2009 this cost €7.50 per person.

Other dishes include things like burgers and chicken dishes - generally anything from the grill.

Although it was a fairly busy Saturday lunchtime our waitress was efficient and spoke excellent English – however as I need to practice my Slovene I’d have appreciated her responding more in Slovene to help me. Our food came fairly quickly and it was a generous portion. The fries were good but of course they were eclipsed by the cevapcici which were nicely spiced and lovely and moist.

We drank beers with our meal – one Union and one Lasko, both priced at €2.40 for a 500ml bottle.

As we were eating we saw pizzas being brought to neighbouring tables and they did look very good; from the conversations at those tables it seemed like they tasted good too. Other people just acme for drinks and it seems this is OK though I suspect they’d rather you were eating too at the busiest times.

There is only one drawback for me with pizzeria Pletna and that is that the toilets are on the ground floor and aren’t that nice. They are clean enough but quite stark and they could be a lot nicer. You also have to go through a first part of the mens’ toilets to get to the ladies’ and the smell in the men’s is really not very nice.

At a shade under €20 for drinks and two main courses at a place over-looking the lake you won’t get better value than this. If you are at this part of the lake or don’t mind the walk (you could take the road train but that costs) then Pizzerija Pletna is a good value option.

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