Local food: what to try in Bansko

Bansko kapama

Bansko’s best-known dish: several kinds of meat, sauerkraut, rice and spices layered in a clay pot and slowly stewed for hours. Made for a long evening with friends.

Banski starets

A dried, pressed pork sausage with spices — a traditional bite with red wine.

Wine from the Melnik area

About an hour and a half to the south lies Melnik, home of the old local grape Shiroka Melnishka Loza. You will find it on the wine list of most taverns in Bansko.

The hotel restaurant serves at least one Bansko dish every evening — ask your waiter.