Since its renovation in 2016, when it began a new, unique culinary journey, Stara gostilna has been working even more closely with local suppliers and has connected local culinary heritage with youthful imagination and talent, thus old is in fact…new!

Reviewed by: Violeta & Uroš Mencinger, Šola okusov

Young chefs

Kristian Zule & Irhad Jusić

Stara gostilna
Irhad Jusić & Kristian Zule

Journey

The tasting menu (five or seven courses, meat or sea) is a trip from Solkan to Piran.

Trout

Marble trout, fermented fennel for three months, lime topping, candied orange, fennel greens.

Stara gostilna, kraljica reke Soče

Bread

Homemade olives loaves are still warm.

Contrasts

Chicken pate with port, pickled onions, pear gel, roasted hazelnuts.

Stara gostilna, pridih dveh svetov

Vegetable garden

On a salad of kale, bacon and whey, the Brussels sprouts are fried in butter, covered with blanched kale leaves, glazed with miso paste, butter and honey, sprinkled with sesame seeds.

Between

Fresh oysters, just a drop of lemon and virgin oil, and freshly sliced feta ham.

Stara gostilna, ostriga in pršut Kukanja

Chicken

Chicken breasts roasted in a pan and glazed with spruce tops. Next to it is a variation of onion, in three ways, baked onion in butter, onion puree and onion sauce.

Mackerel

Stara gostilna, skuša in jamar

Sea bass

Sea bass, sea dashi, seaweed salad.

Roe deer

Roe deer fillet, yellow kohlrabi puree, balls of kohlrabi cooked in their own juice, quince cooked in their own juice and sugar, pastis-based sauce.

Stara gostilna, srna

Rhubarb

White chocolate mousse with rhubarb, pickled rhubarb and rhubarb puree, elderberry granite and elderberry gel.

Wine pairing

Card of spirits and cigars, also a certificate for the sale of cigars. Wine cellar with 350 labels.

Stara gostilna, vinska klet, somelje

Coffee

Coffee and praline with varlhona chocolate and baileys liqueur.

Stara Gostilna

The youth behind the Piran promenade invites you on a culinary journey
Kristian Zule
Chef