Gostilna Krištof

Visiting experience -Spring-hospitable homeliness (2025)

At Gostilna Krištof you can sit at the bar over a bowl of goulash or stew, or on the roadside terrace where you enjoy vegan cabbage rolls. But you go to Krištof for snow-white tablecloths … This is the kind of restaurant hospitality that one searches for in vain elsewhere, but at Krištof you rely on there always being a lot of wines in the centre of the old, wooden, homely dining room, full of organised chaos and black and white memorabilia, always some kind of organic sausage in the wooden meat slicer, and you are always at the same table, albeit always savouring different chef’s specials. This is a restaurant where you choose what Krištof recommends.

Reviewed by: Violeta & Uroš Mencinger, Šola okusov

Color whiteness

White placemats, with tablecloths, runners and napkins, with the homeliness of colors all around, a picture book of Brda on the wall, tulips in a vase, salami in the fridge, wine in a jug and black and white pictures of the brothers in frames.

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Chef's greetings

Pheasant pate and buckwheat popcorn. Fried mouse on parsley pesto. Kristof’s cactus is a stir-fry with beef ‘leftovers’ from Sunday soup, marinated with carrots and orange. On a fried panko breadcrumbs, there are carrot jelly and carrot chips. Podjed’s goat cheese in apple jelly. But it all starts vegan and in the middle, where there are three tahini pastes on a sunflower seed crust, with turmeric, asparagus and beetroot. Five delicious bites that well represent the character and philosophy of the inn and the knowledge and imagination of the chef.

Veal tartare

Veal tartar, Jerusalem artichoke cream, Jerusalem artichoke chips, potica bread, egg yolk in panko crumbs with hazelnuts, hazelnut oil, Barolo wine reduction with truffles.

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Burrata and tomatoes

Burrata with tomato duo.

Trout

Trout from the Vodomec fish farm, horseradish foam, fried trout skin like chips, potatoes from Sorško polje fried into chips, Vodomec trout caviar, and a little ginger “for an Asian touch”.

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Potato, egg, asparagus

Potato cream, poached egg, Krškopolje popcorn, asparagus and parmesan foam.

Nettles and prawns

Risotto with nettles, sour cream, prawn carpaccio, some spring greens. Drizzled with Grand Selection Monterosso olive oil at the table.

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Veal fillet

Veal fillet with porcini mushroom crust, creamy polenta with wild garlic, broad beans, bacon powder and espagnole sauce.

Our kremšnita

Crispy puff pastry, egg vanilla cream and raspberries.

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Štruklji and potica

Buckwheat and curd štrukelj, potica-flavored ice cream, apples, vanilla cream.

Peti fours

Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats and chocolate truffle.

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Accompanying wines

Aperitif, sparkling wine Brut, Medot; Veal tartar: Zelen 2023, Guerila; Risotto: Malvasia 2020, Korenika & Moškon; Veal fillet: Cabernet franc 2021, Sante; Dessert: Ben Rye 2019, Donna Fugata, Sicily; Additional (orange): Malvasia Pivol 2020, Zaro and Laški Riesling 2018, Ducal

Gostilna Krištof

Homely food from a chef with ideas, and ecology
Uroš Gorjanc
Chef