Food in Macedonia is characterized by the fact that in local establishments you can have lunch and dinner at very attractive prices (food prices here are among the lowest in Europe).
Food in Macedonia
The Macedonian cuisine was influenced by Turkish, Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian culinary traditions. The diet of the Macedonians consists of meat, vegetables, legumes, rice, fish, spices.
In Macedonia, you should taste the beans fried in a pan (gravce na tavce); Ohrid trout; minced fried meat; puff pies with cheese, meat and other fillings (bureks); potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants with meat layers (moussaka); baked and stewed sweet pepper salad with beans and eggplants (aivar); Macedonian cabbage rolls (sarma); meatballs (keftinya); meat stew (agricultural mix); vegetable stew (zarzavat); trout with prunes, sprinkled with vegetable oil sauce with garlic, herbs and beaten eggs (pastrmka); hot soup based on bread kvass (chorba); pork or beef sausages with onions and spices (chebapi); stew with rice (dzhevyuch); dried ham (prosciutto).
Those with a sweet tooth should enjoy various jams, baklava, rice pudding ("sutliash"), tulumba (a dessert made of unleavened dough in the form of tubes, fried until golden brown and sprinkled with sweet syrup), halva, marmalade, butter donuts ("crofni"), bagels with honey and jam ("kiflice").
Where to eat in Macedonia? At your service:
- cafes and restaurants with Macedonian and other cuisines of the world;
- eateries and other fast food establishments.
Important: there is a division of restaurants for men and women in the country (in the majority there are restaurants for men, and the most popular women's restaurant is Baghdad in Skopje).
If you are a true gourmet, you will love the Macedonian cuisine, which is diverse and unusual: local chefs beautifully decorate their culinary creations.
Drinks in Macedonia
Popular drinks of the Macedonians are coffee, tea (green, herbal with honey), mousses and fruit juices, salep (thick sweet white drink with cinnamon), ayran, rakia (local brandy made from grapes, plums, peaches, apricots, pears), beer, wine.
Local brandy is white and yellow: it is not recommended to mix the two varieties of this drink, as well as to drink beer or wine before or after the brandy.
Gastronomic tour to Macedonia
If you are a wine connoisseur, you should go on a gastronomic journey, during which you will visit local wineries. On this tour, you will walk through wine cellars and taste various Macedonian wines. In addition, you will walk through local restaurants serving seafood and fish dishes, complemented by white, red and rosé Macedonian wines.
In Macedonia, you can go hiking and mountain tourism, go fishing or river rafting, relax on the Prespa and Ohrid lakes, look at ancient monasteries, and taste original Macedonian cuisine.
