Gostilna Francl

Visiting experience -2024

Francl preserve old dishes, customs and flavours, has a sense for local and quality ingredients and adds to them a measure of originality. Therefore, despite being a century-old, Francl is still a young and fresh, youthful and seasonal, simple Celje and Slovenian restaurant.

Reviewed by: Violeta & Uroš Mencinger, Šola okusov

Gostilna Slovenija

The soul of Francl’s tradition is the garden, which is always blooming and bubbling. Under the chestnut, linden or wood shade

Gostilna Francl, zvon Gostilna Slovenija
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Gostilna Francl, pozdrav
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Amuse-bouche

Buckwheat crisp, beef carpaccio, truffle cream, homemade plum jam. Three types of homemade bread: classic white bread with butter, gluten- and lactose-free corn bread, and bread with wild garlic.

Beef tongue

Smoked aged beef tongue with pumpkin oil, hard-boiled egg, tomato, thyme and dill.

Gostilna Francl, prekajen goveji jezik
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Gostilna Francl, kurja juhca, jetrni štrukeljc
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Chicken soup

Strong chicken soup with liver strudel, rings of carrots and small pieces of chicken, topped with chives.

Gnocchi

Homemade gnocchi with chicken, chanterelles and aged cheeseščancem (in z lisičkami, če jih ni preveč že v drugih jedeh).

Gostilna Francl, domači njoki s piščancem
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Gostilna Francl, lisičke s poširanim jajcem
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Chanterelles

Chanterelles, seared on garlic and parsley, poached egg, potato cream and fried onions.

 

Vegetarian indulgence

Features: fregula with cauliflower, baked cauliflower, homemade curd štruklji, roasted peppers, vegan sarma in a cabbage leaf, buckwheat porridge, potato fritters and various roasted vegetables.

Gostilna Francl, vegetarijansko razvajanje
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Gostilna Francl, telečja jetra z lisičkami
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Veal liver

Veal liver with chanterelles on buttery potato puree and meat sauce.

Apricot dumpling

Apricot dumpling. And period! Because just the name is enough to make you happy in the inn and in July, because we don’t have time for dumplings at home, even though we all, without exception, love them so much.

Gostilna Francl, marelični cmok
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Gostilna Francl, hišni puding mlečne čokolade, malinov sladoled
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Chocolate pudding

Homemade milk chocolate pudding, roasted almonds, raspberry sorbet and whiped sweet cream.

Wine

That’s why Francl has an ‘eloquent’ wine display case. Not only is it next to the bar, it is also so large that no one can overlook Francl’s wine ambitions. In short, wines are an important part of Franclo’s story.

Gostilna Francl, modri pinot, Sanctum
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Gostilna Francl

old Gostilna Slovenia with a new chef
Sebastijan Kovačič
Chef