PEN KLUB restaurant

Visiting experience -Visit 2021

PEN KLUB’s menu has two pages – old and new – but the old doesn’t reanimate and the new one isn’t OTT. The young chef Mojmir Šiftar works wonders in rejuvenating traditional dishes – real food with a youthful smile.

Reviewed by: Violeta & Uroš Mencinger, Šola okusov

Renovation

Pen klub
Kaval group
Pen klub, točilnica
Pen klub, točilnica

History

Chef

If it was already known for Mojmir Šiftar that he cooks modern, in fact modernist, now the surprise is so much better, because in the Pen Club he proves that he also knows “conventional”.

Pen klub, chef Mojmir Šiftar
Pen klub
Dean Dubokovič

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Greetings from the kitchen

Foamy butter with black pepper and salt flower, chicken pate with pomegranate.

Pen klub, pozdravi

Amuse bouche 1

Trout soup as a sphere, or candy, sprinkled with herbal tea, like oysters, to “sip” it, from a cup. Next to it is buckwheat porridge chips, with apple cider vinegar gel and grated horseradish.

Amuse bouche 2

Pork head fritter on raspberry gel, dried shiitake soup.

Pen klub, pozdravi

Beef tongue

Cooked beef tongue with pumpkin oil and Istenič balsamic vinegar, chives mayonnaise, mustard seeds, pickled shallots and chervil.

Prawns

Prawns tatar marinated with lemon peel, pickled cucumber in gin, slices of semi-dried kumquat, false shamrock and crab chips.

Pen klub, Tatar gamberov s kumaro v ginu, sveži kumkvat in rakov čips

Bean soup

Ravioli

Ravioli with smoked carp, black radish cream, pickled black radish.

Pen klub, Ravioli z dimljenim krapom, bistro krapovo juho in črno redkvijo

Duck liver

Duck liver flambéed with cognac, roasted macadamia nuts on liver and plum chutney with shallots, shiso leaves.

Turbot

Turbot fillet baked with cracklings, tuberous celery cream with smoked ham, watercress, butter wine sauce.

Pen klub, File romba z masleno omako na kremi gomolja zelene s šunko

Roe deer

The roe deer shank is slowly cooked in its own juice, from which the chef makes a sauce; barley with Carniolan sausage and pickled Kuehneromyces.

Wild rabbit

Wild rabbit fried in panko bread crumbs, parmesan cream, sour apricot sauce and long roasted carrots rolled in roasted carrot powder.

Pen klub, Ocvrt zajčji hrbet na kremi staranega sira s pečenim korenjem in marelicami

Roasted pear

Baked pear sorbet and lemon meringue, burnt at the table.

Pumpkin seed oil

Pumpkin seed oil panna cotta, pickled pumpkin in vinegar and sugar, roasted pumpkin ice cream on walnut crumbs, marigold flower.

Pen klub, Strjenka bučnega olja z orehovim drobljencem, bučnim sladoledom in kandirano bučo

Petit fours

Carob biscuit with caramel chocolate, coffee powder and dried (lio-fili) raspberries and after eight praline (dark chocolate, yoghurt and mint).