The best ingredients that Istria can offer come together under the skilled hands of our chef to create dishes that encompass the full range of Mediterranean and Istrian cuisine. Find dishes created around unique ingredients that are rarely encountered, such as pulic-Istrian donkey meat or motar where you can still smell the sea. Our carefully selected wine list focuses on Istrian wines that perfectly complement your meal.
The restaurant of Adrion Aparthotel contains everything for an unforgettable gastronomic experience.
Squid salad
Donkey meat in wine (teran) sauce
Lamb chop with sesame and thyme
Cheesecake with wild berries
Did you know that fleshy Sea fennel leaves can be cooked, pickled, added to salads, or prepared with risotto and used as a spice? Sea fennel (lat. Crithmum maritimum L.) is a plant that you probably know from the coast and islands. It is a sea fennel that can grow up to 50 cm and is a real delicacy. The stem is woody and the leaves are fleshy and aromatic. It develops greenish-yellow flowers in August and September. We see Sea fennel in the immediate vicinity of the sea, where it grows abundantly from rocks and in the sand. Sea fennel is best picked while young, in May and June and later choose only softer leaves for cooking or pickling. Young and fresh Sea fennel is excellent and raw, as an addition to salads but also risotto or any other Mediterranean food, and is added to dishes such as spices.
In Istria, it was customary to put a red ribbon around the neck of a puppy, a young donkey, when it was born. When a one-year-old chicken reached a weight of about 100 kg, the butcher would take it all over the village and each family would order the part of the meat they wanted. Nowadays, young donkey meat is a real specialty, it belongs to the traditional Istrian cuisine, it is highly valued around the world and a delicacy that you must not miss…
Truffles are a widely known culinary trump card that will leave few indifferent. Since the truffle was discovered in the Motovun forest 80 years ago, it has not ceased to be a gastro hit of northwestern Istria. Thousands of gourmets flock to the taverns that serve it, and the magical truffle cult fuels the popular belief about its aphrodisiac powers. Immediately after extraction, fresh truffles are used directly as a food additive or modern methods of processing truffles create top quality products (various spreads, cheeses, oil, sweet delicacies, etc.).
Adrion Aparthotel has a HACCP certificate which guarantees the health safety of food, but also a high standard of the entire process of procurement, processing and serving food.
