We returned to the marvellous Moma restaurant in Bulgaria's capital, Sofia. The resaurant building is covered with roses, the symbol of Bulgaria, which provides the majority of the world's roses and rose perfumed soaps and cosmetics. You will find it marked on free maps of Sofia which you can pick up at the tourist office in one of the main modern underground train stations.
If you want to eat in the garden outside at the entrance you need to book. We ate once at the ground floor restaurant, colourful red decor, the second time upstairs in the more restful orange room. On the staircase you see stunning paintings of a bride and other girls in traditional costume by a local artists. The paintings are for sale at prices from 300 to 600 levs, local currency, about 150-300 Euros at the exchange rate when we were there in June 2019.
The best main course was the one I had on my first visit, a casserole containing potatoes. How I miss potatoes living much of the year in Asia, specifically Singapore, where the national dish is chicken
rice.
Brown bread bowl, main course at Moma restaurant, in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
However, on my second visit to Moma I had to have the bread bowl casserole. I had tried this previously in Prague. The bread bowl here in Moma was served on a plate with a decorative base of red tomato sauce.
Tasty tomatoes are another famous feature of Bulgaria. The tomatoes appear in the red, white and green salad, which copies the colour of the national flag. (Like Italy's trilcolor salad copies their national flag.)
I found the advantage of serving the bread bowl on tomato sauce is that the base of the rigid, hard bread bowl softens so that you can scrape it out at the end of the meal.
To go with our meal we were advised by the sommelier to try the local Traminer grape wine.
Useful websites
https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/
About the Author, Angela Lansbury
Travel writer and photographer, teacher of English and other languages.
If you want to eat in the garden outside at the entrance you need to book. We ate once at the ground floor restaurant, colourful red decor, the second time upstairs in the more restful orange room. On the staircase you see stunning paintings of a bride and other girls in traditional costume by a local artists. The paintings are for sale at prices from 300 to 600 levs, local currency, about 150-300 Euros at the exchange rate when we were there in June 2019.
The best main course was the one I had on my first visit, a casserole containing potatoes. How I miss potatoes living much of the year in Asia, specifically Singapore, where the national dish is chicken
rice.
However, on my second visit to Moma I had to have the bread bowl casserole. I had tried this previously in Prague. The bread bowl here in Moma was served on a plate with a decorative base of red tomato sauce.
Tasty tomatoes are another famous feature of Bulgaria. The tomatoes appear in the red, white and green salad, which copies the colour of the national flag. (Like Italy's trilcolor salad copies their national flag.)
I found the advantage of serving the bread bowl on tomato sauce is that the base of the rigid, hard bread bowl softens so that you can scrape it out at the end of the meal.
To go with our meal we were advised by the sommelier to try the local Traminer grape wine.
Useful websites
https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/
About the Author, Angela Lansbury
Travel writer and photographer, teacher of English and other languages.
