Pavus – Laško Castle

Visiting experience -Visit 2021

Excellent pairing of ingredients that are also pleasing to the eye. Simplicity bursts out of chef Marko Pavčnik, especially in his use of colours which are vibrant and complementary. It’s not only obvious from the taste but also its evident that he is a contented chef, well, who wouldn’t be in such a regal setting!

Reviewed by: Violeta & Uroš Mencinger, Šola okusov

The castle

Rok Deželak
UME

Chef Marko Pavčnik

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The food / chef menu on Pavus is an experience!

Pavus, črni ješprenj s sipinim jajcem

Tasting 5 - 10

Pavus offers the chef’s menu, with any number of courses, from 5 to 10.

Amuse bouche

Bao bans bread (first cooked and then fried) stuffed with chicken pate, topped with dehydrated raspberries.
Trout pate wrapped in a slice of daikon radish cooked in dashi, topped with croutons and lemon mayonnaise.
Pavus Garden – herbal cream, malt and hazelnut soil, fresh vegetables and buckwheat cracker.

Pavus, amuse bouche

Butter and bread

Mackerel

Adriatic Sea: marinated mackerel, mussel cream, cracker with olives, fish stock gel with dune ink in the form of cubes.

Pavus, dimljena skuša

Venison

Tatar of smoked venison with a little added beef, dehydrated blueberries, cuttlefish ink cream, crackers and wild herbs.

Forest

Mushrooms, chestnuts, spruce, junipers and autumn leaves.

Pavus, gozdna juha, gobe, kostanji

Cuttlefish

Barley risotto with cuttlefish ink, fried cuttlefish egg, cuttlefish ink espuma, crispy cuttlefish polenta

Cheese

Tortellini with Jamar cheese, onion in three ways (onion jam, confited onion and onion consomme).

Pavus, tortelini z jamarjem

Egg

Yarrow pasta, trout slices instead of bacon, wild parsnips, freshwater fish espuma.

From tail to head

Lamb in different shapes: sliced roasted vitlof for bitterness, lamb ragout, lamb carpaccio, fried lamb sweetbread on top, vanilla sauce, parsnip puree and pickled parsnips.

Pavus, jagnje od repa do glave

Zander

Zander fillet, beurre blanc with pumpkin seed oil, variations of pumpkin, mashed and pickled pumpkin, roasted pumpkin seeds, butter wine sauce with pumpkin seed oil.

On the pasture

The roasted Slovenian ramsteak is rolled in the ashes of spruce needles, along with acorn cream, dry hay sauce, and fried herb balls (meadow herbs).

Pavus, govedina in seno

Gozdiček

At the bottom, juniper needle oil, black currant cream, mushroom crumbs, false shamrock ice cream, spruce foam, meringue with porcini mushrooms and spruce needle ash on it, fresh false shamrock.

Beer

Chocolate ice cream with beer and honey.

Pavus, čokoladna lučka s pivom in medom

Pavus – Laško Castle

Marko Pavčnik is a co-creator of the Slovenian ‘culinary spring’
Marko Pavčnik
Chef