Gostilna Pri Hrvatu

Visiting experience -Rejuvenated trout (2025)

Because Pri Hrvatu was, and still is, a village inn full of tourists from all over the world, the century-old inn has been rejuvenated so that its guests can get to know Slovenian cuisine from this millennium too! Where trout used to only be served in wine, now it is where the past and the present intertwine, in a velvety butter sauce, spiced with herbs, with drops of aromatically coloured mayonnaise and with a cress dressing. And where the roast potatoes are still the same as before, there is now a cutlet instead of a roast, the cabbage is not pickled, but instead young and sweet, and the sauce is not just from the baking tray, but from a saucière (sauce boat).

Reviewed by: Violeta & Uroš Mencinger, Šola okusov

Rejuvenation

Gostilna has rejuvenated and modernized. If the entire Srednja vas wasn’t still full of “his” cars, we wouldn’t find him anymore. The inn has got bistro tables and restaurant chairs, the placemats are nice, but the napkins are still made of paper.

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Greeting

Greetings from the kitchen: homemade chicken pâté in a pastry tart, cranberries, butter, and chervil. Quickly on the table as a place setting, and in a typical way as a greeting from the kitchen.

Trout and asparagus

Cold smoked trout, green asparagus, parsley mayonnaise, citrus sauce, trout roe, sesame cracker. On a (so) real plate on its central, recessed stage, the colors first delight and then their complexity.

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Beef tongue

Beef tongue on celery and apple salad, horseradish cream, balsamic reduction (balsamic vinegar with honey).

Barley risotto

Barley risotto with porcini mushrooms and Bohinj cheese. Topped with toasted porcini slices (nicely firm to the bite), sour cream sauce, herb oil, radish microgreens, Bohinj cheese cracker.

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Ravioli with trout

Ravioli stuffed with red trout, roe, fish consomme, pieces of smoked trout, lemon oil, chervil.

Pork steak

Pork crown steak, roasted potatoes and stewed sweet cabbage, sauce.

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Trout in wine

Trout in wine sauce (fish base, reduced wine and herbs), chard with potatoes.

Buckwheat dumpling

Buckwheat dumpling stuffed with dried pears and cinnamon, vanilla ice cream, breadcrumbs with butter and honey.

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Gostilna pri Hrvatu, hruškov tart, ganaš bele čokolade, sladoled
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Pears with honey

Cookie basket filled with caramelized pears with honey, vanilla cream, white chocolate ganache with thyme, vanilla ice cream.

Accompanying wines

Wine pairing (for lunch) – aperitif: fruit brandy from the Matijevc farm; appetizers: Črna rebula 2019, Erzetič; pork chop: Kartuzijansko ręde 2021, Sanctum; trout: Vitovska 2017, Emil Tavčar.

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Gostilna Pri Hrvatu

the rejuvenation of an old inn and its trout
Denis Slamar
Chef