What we are cooking today
Please order the dishes from under the peka a day ahead, by phone or with a note on your reservation. Allergens and labels for vegetarian and vegan dishes are listed with every item; if you have special needs, tell us when you book and we will prepare.
Menu, daily menu and wine list
We cook from Zagorje and Zagreb family recipes. Please order the dishes from under the peka a day ahead.
Cold starters
Home-cured ham, dry sausage, pork crackling, fresh cheese with sour cream and pickles, with home-baked bread.
With horseradish and pickled onion.
With spring onion and home-baked bread.
Fresh from the bread oven, six pieces.
Soups and stews
Creamy, with toasted seeds.
Hearty stew of several kinds of meat, onion and red paprika, cooked in the cauldron; with home-baked bread.
With home-smoked sausage.
Main courses
Three pieces, baked or boiled: tell us which you prefer. We stretch the dough by hand and fill it with fresh cheese and sour cream.
Turkey roasted in its own juices, served with mlinci (thin baked pasta) soaked in the roasting gravy and a sauerkraut salad.
Sauerkraut rolls filled with minced meat and rice, simmered with smoked ribs; served with mashed potatoes.
Veal cutlet stuffed with ham and cheese, breaded and fried; with fries and a mixed salad.
Slow-cooked, with home-made gnocchi.
With butter potatoes and lemon.
Home-made gnocchi in a cream sauce with porcini.
From the peka (order a day ahead)
Young veal with new potatoes, carrots and rosemary, three hours under the peka.
Lamb shoulder and potatoes with garlic and rosemary.
New potatoes, carrots, courgettes and peppers with olive oil and rosemary.
Sides
Desserts
Crisp puff pastry, vanilla custard and whipped cream.
Yeast-dough roll filled with ground walnuts.
With poppy seeds, walnuts, apples and curd cheese.
Served warm, with vanilla sauce.
With chocolate sauce.
A Zagorje treat: vanilla, pumpkin seed oil and toasted seeds.
Soup of the day, the dish of the day and bread, Monday to Friday until 3:00 PM. The dishes change every day; the price stays the same.
Soup of the day
Beef, vegetable or cream soup, depending on the day.
Dish of the day
A cooked or roast dish with a side; ask the waiter what is on the stove today.
Bread
We pour every wine by the 1.5 dl glass, and you can take it by the 0.75 l bottle too: the glass and the bottle each have a line and a price of their own.
Sparkling wines
Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, traditional method: fine bubbles and notes of green apple.
Fruity and fresh, with notes of strawberry and raspberry.
White wines
Fresh and fruity, notes of apple and peach; goes well with soups and štrukli.
A rare native grape, mineral and floral; pairs with trout and cheese.
A light white from the Zagorje hills with lively acidity; good with cold starters.
Fuller-bodied, notes of pear and honey; with turkey and gnocchi.
Floral, with notes of acacia and almond; with chicken and fish.
Red wines
Light and berry-driven; with sarma and roasts.
Elegant, notes of sour cherry and spice; with turkey and veal.
Intense and fresh, deep purple; with goulash and čobanac.
Full and warm, notes of dried plum and spice; with veal or lamb from the peka.
Dessert wine
A sweet wine with notes of rose and apricot; a 1 dl glass goes with kremšnita or orehnjača.
Spritzers and house spirits
White wine and sparkling water, 2 dl glass: the classic with Sunday lunch.
Red wine and still water, 2 dl glass.
A 3 cl glass, to round off the meal.
Veal or lamb from under the peka?
The peka cooks for three hours over embers, must be ordered a day ahead and is made for two people or more. Call us or add a note to your reservation.