As you possibly already noticed, I’m doing a lot of travelling and love to find the best sightseeing spots and restaurants in foreign countries.
Doing so I truely discovered a lot of good, but also a lot of bad restaurants during my travels, but hey: You need to have something bad sometimes to truely admire the greatness of certain places.
I’m normally not doing this kind of posts and this isn’t a paid advertisement or something similar, but I just have to tell you about this place I was several times by now. It’s the
Bonaca Restaurant and Lounge Bar (Verudela/Pula)
I found this place together with my girlfriend wandering around the shores at Verudela/Pula and instantly loved the location of this restaurant.Directly above the sea with a great view, especially during the sundowns, this is the perfect place to end the day. The interieur and exterieur of the restaurant is well chosen and fits perfectly to the style of this place. Stylish modern but cozy is the right description in my opinion.
Initially I went there just to have a coffee, but we ended up having a starter and a main dish and we simply were amazed of the quality of the food and also the presentation of it.
The menu doesn’t follow the tactics of a lot of restaurants in Croatia to try to fulfill all the needs of the numerous nationalities that visit Croatia, but it gives a stylish roundtrip over the most important food of Istria. You can choose from very good sea food, to some great meat dishes (also a bit of casual food) and round it up with a sufficient choice of starters.
My recommendation is absolutely to have the “Symphony of Mainland Istria” as a starter. Having this one together with your partner is a great way to start your culinary journey in this restaurant. We had this starter several times and we loved that it was a little bit different each time. This was one thing to make us coming back several times, because we both aren’t the “creatures of habits” that a lot of other people are.
Switching to the main dishes I can fully recommend the grilled squids with vegetables, the crispy octopus arms with vegetables, the chicken brest wrapped in Pršut and the mixed salat with crisp chicken brest. Every time we ate here the quality of food was amazing and the waitresses and waiters were friendly and fast, even if the place was crowded.
I can happily call that one a
10 out of 10
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