Mlečna Marijanca

café bistro in the oldest thermal spa

Chef: Katja Đudarić
    Dobrna 50, Dobrna, Slovenija
Menu price in RW

26 €

Opening hours in RW
  • Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 13:00 - 21:00
  • Monday: closed
Reservations

Reservation required.

Reservation Schedule
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 13:00, 15:00, 17:00, 19:00

Milky autumn - meat menu

Amuse-bouche: whey elixir, focaccia, curd cheese spread with eggs, pickled red onion, smoked salt, chives
Venison carpaccio, horseradish sour cream, pear, mustard seeds, toasted flaked almonds
Two-colored pumpkin soup, pumpkin seeds, pumpkin seed oil, cream foam
Veal medallion, brown butter and sage cream sauce, chestnut purée, crispy leek

Gifts of the River – fish menu

Amuse-bouche: whey elixir, focaccia, curd cheese spread with eggs, pickled red onion, smoked salt, chives
Smoked trout tartare, herb sour cream with dill, buckwheat blini, trout roe, pickled red onion
Two-colored pumpkin soup, pumpkin seeds, pumpkin seed oil, cream foam
Zander fillet, semolina štrukelj with curd cheese, parsnip purée, crispy leek, langoustine sauce, dried porcini mushrooms
The menu includes a product made from beef or poultry meat, milk, dairy products and/or fruit bearing the »izbrana kakovost - Slovenija« label. The »izbrana kakovost - Slovenija« promotion encourages the use of locally produced food of Slovenian origin.
Wine pairing
Rose Carthusiana, brut, NV, Zlati grić, Štajerska Slovenija
Chardonnay, 2025, Kristančič, Goriška Brda
Modri pinot prestige, 2020, Meum, Štajerska Slovenija
Wine pairing price 14,00 €
Wine pairing
Rose Carthusiana, brut, NV, Zlati grić, Štajerska Slovenija
Chardonnay, 2025, Kristančič, Goriška Brda
Renski rizling Markus, 2022, Frešer, Štajerska Slovenija
Wine pairing price 14,00 €
Extra offer
Yogurt panna cotta, roasted apple, caramel, buckwheat crumble, apple pie ice cream 6,50 €
Homemade curd cheese štrukelj, raspberry, pistacchio ice cream 9,00 €
Roasted pear with warm rice pudding, honey, vanilla, cinnamon 6,50 €
The additional offer includes a product made from beef or poultry meat, milk, dairy products and/or fruit bearing the »izbrana kakovost - Slovenija« label. The »izbrana kakovost - Slovenija« promotion encourages the use of locally produced food of Slovenian origin.
Local suppliers
Sirotka, skuta, siri: Kmetija Podpečan, Žalec
Med: Čebelarstvo Krulec, Dobrna
Katja Đudarić
Chef

The Ladies of Dobrna

In bygone days, drinking whey in the café in the spa park of Slovenia’s oldest thermal spa was part of the prescribed spa treatment. These days, a visit to Bistro Mlečna Marijanca, housed in the same late-19th-century building, is part of any visit to Dobrna. A whey drink is served as the chef’s and sommelier’s amuse-bouche.

Mlečna Marijanca is a bistro, but its walls are brought to life by Biljana Unkovska’s vividly coloured portraits of famous ladies from Dobrna. Alongside Carniolan sausage and a royal burger, homemade beef soup with noodles and homemade tagliatelle with truffles, game ragù with gnocchi and Rossini fillet with foie gras, you will discover that some illustrious women have visited Dobrna before you: film diva Sophia Loren, Habsburg empress Maria Theresa, Serbian princess Julija Obrenović, Anna Plochl, wife of Archduke John, and Austrian aristocrat Clémentine Metternich.

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Is it hard to choose when the menu has so many papers and pages? The smallest one offers the most for the least, making it easy to put together an affordable three-course menu from the chef’s selection, with three dishes to choose from for each course.

Menu

Tasting menu

3 courses

32 €

Wine list

Speciality: drinks/cocktails from whey. Sommelier Benjamin Jug.

Ambience

A historic café dating from 1847 in the spa park with a thermal spring, amongst ancient trees from throughout the world and beside the Topliski stream.

Specialities

The oldest Slovenian health resort with a thermal spring, a spa dating back to 1403.