Best restaurants in Cluj Napoca

The wonderful city of Cluj Napoca, lieing under Feleac Hill, welcomes you in its very particular way. It offers a Central European urban flair, similar in some directions with Budapest and Vienna. It is a multicultural city, there are Hungarian speaking elites and universities, living peacefully with the Romanians.

Restaurant Agape in Cluj napoca is typical Hungarian, with self service and friendly staff

You need a few days to know, learn and love Cluj Napoca, and I already recommended a few of the city's exquisite hotels to lodge in. In every day of your stay in Cluj Napoca you can visit museums, walking, shopping etc, and being probably tired and hungry you are supposed to eat somewhere. An option is to in the hotel you stay, the restaurants are good and checked. But if don't make your way to the hotel, you can try to discover other restaurants in Cluj Napoca, as I also did, and am able now to recommend you some good houses.

Restaurant Casa Ardeleana in Cluj Napoca is one of the city's best 

The restaurant Etno lies even in the yard of the Etnographic Museum. It is a cheap one, rather a pizzeria, ideal for a hungry visitor of the Museum, combining the high spheres and the more terrestrial ones.

If you are in the shopping mood, and have just entered the Cora Comercial Center, you can't miss the restaurant Casa Ardeleana (Transilvania house), which is really traditional, with painted furniture and rural ornaments. Observe the big wood fireplace, where the food is still traditionally cooked, smelling fantastic. A rich collection of exquisite wines is also available. Unfortunately, the service is sometimes very quickly and not always carefully. The explication is the big number of customers.

Restaurant Roata 16  has style and an excellent kitchen, an adress to remember

It would be such a pity to visit Cluj Napoca without tasting the excellent Hungarian Kitchen, which means first goulasch and paprika. An excellent place for that is the restaurant Agape, under a glass roof, in the first floor of Hotel 1!. Self service cheap bistrot, no special wine or sophisticated specialities.

Restaurant Roata 16 is hidden and difficult to find, but offers some excellent Romanian specialties , e.g beans with smoked sausages. The position is also excellent , in a charming villa with flower garden. The restaurant also offers a wide assortment of soups.

If you are busy and don't need to stay long, only for enjoying a coffee and the snacks for it, try cafe BT (Banca Transilvania) where you can find the best espresso from Cluj. This coffee has a pregnant bank theme, while enjoying your coffee you can change money or whithdraw money from the bancomat.

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The best business hotels in Cluj-Napoca

Cluj Napoca is such a wonderful city and really deserves a few days from your time. There are a plenty things to do in this charming location, which seduces with its peaceful multilingvistic and multicultural  flair.

Supposing you are businessman, or dispose anyway of the daily budget of 50-60 Euros. With this budget you can get a good average three stars hotel with breakfast ( to the limit I also selected ** or **** hotel). We should avoid the very centre, simply too noisy, overcrowded and expensive.

The good Hotel Victoria in downtown Cluj Napoca

Only 5 minutes away from the downtown you can find Hotel Victoria, the meeting place of the exquisite clubs Lion and Rotary. The kitchen is only satisfactory, the stairs looks fantastic with its lamps, but the rooms  need a refreshment.

10 minutes away a typical business hotel, the Best Western. It is totally blue for sure, is standard comfy, but has a good kitchen and a wonderful attractive bar, visited by the rockers, being totally dedicated to personalities like Elvis Prestley, Buddy Holly and Rolling Stones.

The conventional Best Western Topaz Hotel, whose bar is totally special, meeting point of the local rocjers

Also 10 minutes away from the downtown, but in other direction a nice surprise: Hotel premier **** at costs of three stars with a dynamic super team lead by Lucian Stanciu, who strives to salute every guest personally (when i arrived, 11 hours p.m. he was there, but also when I left at 6 hours in the morning he was already there.)  Don't need to say anything else about the service or about the kitchen (don't miss the delicious crepes suzettes/pancakes filled with confiture). So, probably the most interesting and advisable stoppover in Cluj-Napoca for this budget! And I can reveal you another secret: as Cluj Napoca has a strong football team, namely CFR, his counterparts from Romania (Steaua Bucuresti, Dinamo Bucuresti) or from abroad always make the choice to stay here.

Hotel Premier offers **** service for ***prices and a lot of space

General manager of Hotel premier, Mr Lucian Stanciu, takes always the time to speak personally with all his guests.

A little bit further from the downtown, maybe 30 minutes walking, the Hotel Sport** was first for sportsmen oriented, but meanwhile its esteemed clients turned to be businessmen  with much higher requests on service quality level, but the team managed to solve all the possible problems. You can find here a good kitchen and a good service in hotel and restaurant.

Hotel Sport is far from downtown, but offers major compensations

If your budget is lower, we will find solutions and recommend them to you on another occasion. And if you have a bigger budget we also have solutions, choice Opera plaza  in the downtown for 120 Euros at night.

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