Ovcharska Salad
The shepherd's salad: a shopska with ham, yellow cheese, mushrooms and egg piled on. A whole meal in a bowl, and the reason nobody orders a main course after it.
- Gluten-free
A starter, a main and a dessert, already chosen. Swap anything you do not fancy.
For 2026-10-30
The shepherd's salad: a shopska with ham, yellow cheese, mushrooms and egg piled on. A whole meal in a bowl, and the reason nobody orders a main course after it.
Beef shoulder braised slowly with a great deal of onion and sweet paprika, thickened at the end into a sauce heavy enough to coat a spoon. Ninety minutes of doing nothing, and most of the flavour is made in the first fifteen.
The braided, golden Easter bread of Bulgaria: a soft, buttery yeast dough scented with citrus and vanilla, spun into a long plait and baked until it shreds into silky strands.