Romania food retains its familiarity to people despite having different flavors. Visitors can enjoy a mixture of Oriental, Austrian and French flavors. Plenty of delicious local dishes like Sarmale, mamaliga, bulz and many others allure the locals as well as the visitors. Friptura, cozonac, tocana, and tochitura are some other famous names in the list. Tochitura is an assortment of fried meats and traditional sausages. Mici Coirba de burta, coirba taraneasca and drob also contribute in constituting that special Romanian menu. Garlic and onions are omnipresent in almost all the dishes.

While roaming the streets you will find quite tasty street foods like covrigi which is a hot pretzels. Langosi is dish containing hot dough filled with cheese. Another mouth-watering dish is gogosi that is donut-like dough, coated with fine sugar. If you are fond of pastries you have landed in appropriate place. Numerous varieties of palatable pastries are available. They come with different names such as merdenele, dobrogene, poale-n brau and ardelenesti in different flavors. Kebab and shawarma are two very popular items served in the many shops and restaurants.

Most of the restaurants in the country serve Romanian food, though they are very similar to western European food. The capital city Bucharest features wide range of International food chains. Chinese, Italian or French anything you name and you will get there. And interestingly, they all are nominally cheaper than restaurants. They sell foods of international standard but with quality lower than that in restaurants. So it is advisable to go for restaurants if you can.