Hotel Piran

A coastal hotel, but not just for sunbathing

Piran is lovely, the sea is close, the hotel is the oldest and the terrace, aptly, is the most sought after, because Piran’s promenade ends differently to how it starts. Therefore, Hotel Piran isn’t just a place for sunbathing, even though the beach is merely a metre from one’s room. There are many advantages of this historic Piran hotel: breakfast by the sea, lunch on the beach, wine tasting on a stroll, dinner at sunset and cocktails on the roof. The kitchen of the hotel, which has 103 rooms, might be just 12 m2 but its restaurant also attracts numerous non-resident guests.

The restaurant of Hotel Piran, with chef Tadej Petric, is different enough from the continuation of the promenade that hotel guests return, while non-residents make a reservation. Carpaccio of sea bass with cuttlefish mayonnaise and Istrian sunbleak fish (Leucaspius delineatu) crisps, ceviche of grouper with green apple sorbet or Adriatic squid as noodles in a Primorska pasta arouse enough curiosity that the angler fish can be stuffed with herb cream, and poached sea bass seasoned with fig gremolata. That is why, whenever the sun shines, the Piran promenade fills up, and the Piran Hotel is at its start.