The Bulgarian cuisine is distinguished with its strong taste, numerous condiments and spices and variety of fresh vegetables, fruits, carefully prepared main dishes and desserts. Among the traditional Bulgarian specialties are banitsa, musaka with minced meat and potatoes, banska kapama, Thracian katma, cabbage or vine-leaf sarma, lukanka, sudzhuk, pastarma, shopska salad, Bulgarian white brine cheese and home-made yoghurt.
Along with France, Spain, Italy and Greece Bulgaria is one of the biggest producers of wine in the world. The experienced connoisseurs distinguish the Bulgarian red wine sorts of Gamza, Pamid, Mavrud, Cabernet and Merlot and the white sorts of Muskat and Misket.
The traditional Bulgarian aperitif is the rakia – grape or plum which goes with vegetable salad.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria
Sofia 1040, Bulgaria
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Tel.: +359 2 948 29 99
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Tel.: +359 2 948 20 18,
+359 2 971 10 54
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