Restaurant Štern 1877

Visiting experience -Modern in the inn (2026)

Štern 1877 isn’t a fine dining restaurant. There’s no tasting menu, it’s not haute cuisine and it’s not a unique experience. No, nobody actually wants that at Štern 1877 in touristy Ježica. Štern, thus, is a restaurant with the soul of an inn, in which the chef’s cooking is so smart that it’s classic, contemporary and good, too.

Reviewed by: Violeta & Uroš Mencinger, Šola okusov

The inn

You wouldn’t expect such a homely restaurant atmosphere in a tourist ‘resort’, with fresh tulips on carefully laid tables. But Štern has an old vintage in its name and cherishes a long inn tradition!

Štern 1877, dining room
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Štern 1877, dining room
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And restaurant

The antique-country homeliness of the dining room is full of bottles, tulips and careful place settings with cloth napkins. When all guests, regardless of their order, receive a greeting from the kitchen, it is not an ordinary couvert, but a friendly stimulus for the taste buds.

Greeting

Mashed sweet potatoes, fried tapioca with cuttlefish ink and/or beetroot, volcanic black salt, chopped hazelnuts. The greeting is (also) for telling what will happen next.

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Sea bass ceviche

Sea bass ceviche with pomegranate, tiger milk sauce (made with coconut milk and 20 Asian spices), pickled raindrops chilies, flowers, oyster microgreens.

Beef tartare

Beef tartare on hash brown potato, mustard seeds, chive mayonnaise, egg yolk cream.

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Black risotto

Cuttlefish black risotto and lobster bisque, oyster microgreens. Dalmatian black risotto and French-style creamy lobster ‘soup’.

Risotto with porcini mushrooms

Risotto with beef fillet and porcini mushrooms, pea sprouts, grated Parmesan at the table.

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Lemon sorbet

Lemon sorbet with gin tonic gel and lemon zest.

Apricot sorbet

Apricot sorbet, mezcalita gel, tahini.

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Angler

Angler, Jerusalem artichoke puree, Jerusalem artichoke chips, white wine sauce with truffles, romanesco cauliflower, black truffle grated at the table.

Veal cheek

Slow-cooked veal cheek, mashed potatoes, fried Brussels sprouts, meat demi glace sauce. Less is more, or rather, simpler is better than overly complex.

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Crème Brûlée

Crème Brûlée, because it’s so good that even the real French wouldn’t be ashamed. When it’s like this, it doesn’t need anything else. No words, in short.

Cheesecake

Yuzu cheesecake, matcha ice cream, freeze-dried raspberries.

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Restaurant Štern 1877

a restaurant with the soul of gostilna (an inn)