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Top 5 Croatian dishes that you have to try on your trip

The best foods in Croatia are a delicious blend of Mediterranean flavors, shaped by the country’s location along the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea and centuries of influence from the Republic of Venice, Romans, and Greeks. But don’t worry—there’s more to Croatian cuisine than just fish. After a full day of cycling or wandering around, here are five must-try dishes waiting to refuel you.

Brudet (brodet)

This is a thick fish soup you will eat in Istria, the Kvarner Gulf, and further south in Dalmatia. Usually, several different types of fish are cooked in the same pot, such as grouper, conger, sea bass, sea bream, dentex, sometimes also scampi and mussels, and usually with some vegetable (tomato, potato), local spices, and a few glasses of red or white wine are also added. It is best combined with polenta (cornmeal), but it can also be served with a thick piece of bread.

 

One of the best foods in Croatia, fish soup with mussels.


Black risotto

Once you’ve tasted a real, high-quality cuttlefish risotto, you have a problem when some restaurant serves you a mess with some frozen octopus and artificial ink. The color of the dish is really impressive, but the point is in the taste. The ingredients are cuttlefish, onion, garlic rice, a piece of butter, and quality olive oil, and it adds its charm if, instead of water, it is cooked with fish stock – the broth in which we previously cooked the fish.

 

Black risotto is a must try typical food in Croatia.


Buzara

‘Buzara’ is a type of sauce that can be made with various seafood in Croatia, scampi or mussels, and it is a sauce very rich in garlic, parsley, tomatoes and white wine. For the side, you don’t need more than a piece of fresh white bread to soak up the rest of the sauce. Well, except for a glass of cold, white wine, Malvazija or Graševina, for example.

 

Mussel Buzara is a typical Croatian food you need to try on your Balkan cycling tour.


Peka (under the oven)

This traditional method of slow cooking in large cast iron or wrought iron pots, which are covered with hot coals, is not only found in Croatia but also in neighboring countries along the Balkan Peninsula. Not only does the dish itself cook for at least an hour, sometimes three, but preparing the fire itself also takes time, so don’t think that you can just show up at a restaurant and ask for ‘peka’. You will need to make an appointment. Meat dishes (beef, lamb, chicken) or seafood dishes (octopus, monk, etc.) can be cooked under the oven. The meat is cooked together with vegetables (potato, carrots, onion,…), which gives the entire content an extraordinary intertwining of flavors.

 

Traditional Croatian food speciality.


Fritule

A very simple, but extremely tasty Croatian dessert that can be a great end to dinner or just a snack during an evening walk along the waterfront. In some areas, raisins or a dash of rum are added to the basic ingredients, which are flour, eggs, yogurt, (vanilla) sugar, and baking powder. If you see them fresh somewhere during the day, don’t eat too much of them, the fried dish will make it harder to pedal your bike.

 

Fritule are one of Croatia's most popular sweet dishes.

Interested in Slovenia Green Pannonian Route? Wait until October

We’re happy to see your interest in the new cycling tour – Slovenia Green Pannonian Route. At the moment, the organized tour details are not yet finalized, so if you’d like to be notified when we publish the program & open the reservations, leave us your email.

Expect our e-mail somewhere in mid-October when the launch of the new tour will take place and when we’ll also be ready for planning season 2023. 😉

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Interested in Slovenia Green Wellness Route? Wait until October

We’re happy to see your interest in the new cycling tour – Slovenia Green Wellness Route. At the moment, the organized tour details are not yet finalized, so if you’d like to be notified when we publish the program & open the reservations, leave us your email.

Expect our e-mail somewhere in mid-October when the launch of the new tour will take place and when we’ll also be ready for planning season 2023. 😉

You’ll be one the first who’ll get the information about the new tour.

Interested in Slovenia Green Kočevsko Cycling Loop?

We’re happy to see your interest in the cycling tour – Slovenia Green Kočevsko Loop. This tour is only done on request and it is completely tailor-made to fit your needs. So please feel free to drop us an e-mail and we will get back to you with an offer. 

Slovenian actor discovers the Slovenia Green Gourmet Route in a new video documentary

Dear lovers of cycling, nature, and gastronomy! Please take time and see this new nearly 30 minutes long documentary about exploring Slovenia’s best restaurants and Slovenia Green-certified accommodations – on a bicycle. Even if we know all those places very well, we just couldn’t stop watching. One word: beautiful! Seven words: we can’t wait to ride there again!

The Bike Slovenia Green Gourmet Route (BSGGR) is the perfect itinerary for ever-evolving global travelers who demand everything: pleasure, adventure, and responsibility. Find the itinerary, dates, and pricing click here. Welcome!

Visit GoodPlace is extending Travelife Partner status

We happily announce that we at Visit GoodPlace are staying committed to sustainable and responsible tourism development by extending our Travelife partner status. 

We will continue to grow our passion for active and green tourism by following Travelife standards. Those standards are compliant with the UN’s Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria and OECD’s Social Responsibility Guidelines that are here to improve environmental, social and economic issues. 

Our team worked hard to meet the strict Travelife standards and to manage and develop our business operations and cycling tours in a way that they:

  • Support and benefit the development of local communities
  • Reduce the negative impact of tourism on the environment and cultural heritage
  • Include fair business practices, labour conditions and support human rights
  • Make our cycling tours fun and memorable and our customers happy

It’s important to us to be a part of this and to make a positive impact in the world with our tours. For that reason we must say thank you to all our past (and future customers) who trusted us and decided to take a step towards more sustainable travelling. 

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