The best restaurants Maramures

This typical little wooden house houses a restaurant as simple as it is cute: a single menu (starter/soup, main course, dessert) that changes daily, a small room decorated in traditional style and a pleasant walled garden at the front, where a few tables are set up, in canteen mode. You'll enjoy good home cooking, using local farm produce. What's more, you'll be greeted with a warm welcome. For the record, the restaurant was created by Andreea, a young woman who decided to bring up her children in the countryside.

In the hotel of the same name, this is certainly the best restaurant in town, serving delicious Romanian specialties in an elegant, rustic setting, with large wooden tables, handicrafts hanging on the walls and waiters in folk costumes. The atmosphere is warm and inviting, enlivened by the presence of traditional musicians. As for the cuisine, it's simply succulent. In high season, it's best to book in advance.

Restaurant-brasserie. Hot dishes are often sprinkled with beer.

It's probably the best address in town, recommended by the locals. This very cosy restaurant gives the impression of being in a friend's dining room, with its beautiful parquet floor, comfortable sofas and fireplace. The decoration, both modern and country, contributes a lot to make the place warm. You will taste well prepared Romanian specialties. The establishment also has a beautiful garden planted with trees at the back. The place is also a boarding house, with pleasant rooms tastefully decorated in light tones.

A young and trendy restaurant, right next to the theater, where prices are quite reasonable. The bright, Scandinavian-style decor makes for a pleasant, relaxed setting. A word of advice: try the burgers! It's the house specialty. Also on the menu are meat specialties, mainly chicken but also pork and beef, cooked Mexican-style, Italian-style or with curry sauce. For non-meat lovers, there are also fish dishes, pastas, pizzas and salads.

This fine restaurant is part of a complex on the southern edge of town, which also includes a hotel, nightclub and swimming pool. The medieval decor is rather elegant, with exposed beams, chandeliers, carved wooden chairs and white tablecloths. International and Romanian cuisine is served here: burgers, pizzas, pastas, Angus beef, ciorbă de burtă, sarmale, trout en croûte... The choice is varied! The products, often local, are prepared using traditional methods: smoking, slow-cooking or charcoal-burning..

A little outside the village, this large inn is a good place to stop off for a meal or an overnight stay. This recently-built inn, with its original architecture inspired by that of the Bârsana monastery, is run by a local farming family. Here, you can dine in a traditional setting, enjoying local specialities concocted from farm produce. The sausages, for example, are delicious. The bread is homemade, and the trout comes from the pond at the back. Upstairs are 8 bright, modern bedrooms.

One of the city's most popular nightlife venues. Located in a magnificent historic building on the central square, the Millenium complex includes a café with a beautiful terrace, a patisserie, a pub-club and a cosy cellar restaurant. The extensive menu offers a wide choice of dishes and prices: pizzas, sandwiches, pastas, soups, fish, meats, Romanian and Hungarian stews, as well as less common specialties such as turkey with apples or venison with mushrooms. Egg-based breakfasts are also served.

Quite simply, it's the best bakery in town, located on the main boulevard running through the center of town. The proof: it's always busy! At any time of day, you can indulge in a delicious cake, viennoiserie, tiramisù, cookies and all kinds of delicacies, accompanied by a speciality coffee, homemade lemonade or natural fruit juice. You can even have lunch here, with a wide variety of excellent sandwiches and salads to choose from.