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Where to eat
Albanian cuisine is surprisingly good and tasty, a mix of Mediterranean and Balkan traditions, with plenty of fresh fish and produce. Standards are often high, with many members of the Albanian emigrant diaspora returning with years of experience in the catering industries around the world. Dining in Tirana is cheap and even in upscale restaurants a main course will not cost much more than 800 lek. We've listed the average main course prices in the reviews. Enjoy.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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Serendipity
A favourite among foreigners, Serendipity offers an irresistible combination of attractive clientele, innovative cocktails and fusion food (curry, chicken
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Rozafa
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Apollonia
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Pastiçeri International
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Era
Latest Comments
Wonderful restaurant! They have New York cheese cake direct from New York. They also have cold Starbucks coffee. They specialize in home-made pastas with mouth-watering sauces. You will be very impressed![...]
Friend's Book House is my favourite place to buy books, service is great, and coffee is the best. There are writen rules for clients who use the library, for all services, and price. I wish I had more time to spend there! I usually go at weekends wi[...]
I am happy to see the arrival of sushi to Tirana, and it was really tasty and fresh when I went there - the prices might be a bit hefty for Albania but sushi is quite expensive everywhere in the world. Recommend it![...]
Yamato is the best Asian restaurant in Albania! There are only two of this kind, what a pity. Best price, best service, best sushi ever! Thank you guys![...]
I do not agree with animals being imprisoned in cages just to attract people. But please do not generalise. If civilisation would only be measured from the way individuals treat animals or humans what would a great nation like the British one have to say, seeing how prisoners were treated in Iraq or at the way British gentlemen have treated animals and humans in Africa and elsewhere in the last 300-400 years. Please stay away from clichés!
EDITOR: Thanks. All points of view now represented - the discussion is closed.[...]
There are neither laws to protect these wild animals in Albania, nor pets like dogs and cats. I'm sorry to agree with you, but yes, you can evaluate the civilisation of a country by the way it treats the animals (Ghandi), and considering this, even [...]
It´s very cool. The burgers are great there. I was there last year and had the double hamburger menu.[...]
They have good pizza.[...]
Aleni is right, there is no Yamato in Tirana...maybe in Fier or Vlora...
EDITOR: Guys, please, trust the foreigners on this point. There is a Yamato in central Tirana (for nearly a year now... how well do you know your own city?). We clearly remember eating sushi there. We even have the menu. Just go to the address listed or call to check for yourself if you don't believe us.[...]
There's no service in there, they kept my change twice, and my orders arrived more than half an hour late. I'll never go there again.[...]
Emblema served the best of the traditional Albanian food. When we went the place was fully booked. I noticed a lot of foreigners as well as locals. Dishes are simple but very tasty. The waiting staff is polite and professional and the owner was happ[...]
Wow! I cannot believe what I am reading. You're complaining about animals in cages? Umm, have any of you (Jenny or Matrapick) been to a zoo before? I believe the animals there are in cages. And the analogy of human rights to animal rights is absurd. Also, while my country has its own issues, like every country in this world, I doubt that tourists will not come to Albania because a given restaurant keeps animals in cages. I think this restaurant is beautiful, and perhaps one of the best I have been to thus far...and I have travelled quite a bit. The atmosphere is amazing! I totally recommend this restaurant.
EDITOR: The point was that at the time, the bear was kept in a home-made cage made of rusty iron bars only twice the size of the animal itself, Edita. In nature bears need huge areas and in most zoos they are are at least given a decent space to run. It has a larger enclosure now.
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I will give you a good advice: don't eat at Kolonat for your health because it is very miserable food. And the price is double that of McDonald's.[...]
Lovely place, good service and delicious food.Complete satisfaction.These people know how to make pizza:)[...]
I am intrigued, I would love to visit this place. Usually in post-communist Eastern block it's difficult to find well preserved traditional places 'suitable' for a good relaxing time in a dynamic city where one can read (if even an interior design m[...]