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Pilvax Restaurant & Wine Bar

Restaurant Bar Family restaurant Wine bar Hungarian restaurant

One of the Most Reviewed Wine bars in Braşov


Address

Strada Michael Weiss 16, Brașov 500031, Romania

Website

www.pilvax.ro

Contact

+40 726 261 228

Price rating

$$ $$

Rating on Google Maps

4.50 (1.4K reviews)

Open on Google Maps

Working Hours

  • Wednesday: 12 to 10 PM
  • Thursday: 12 to 10 PM
  • Friday: 12 to 10 PM
  • Saturday: 12 to 10 PM
  • Sunday: 12 to 4 PM
  • Monday: Closed
  • Tuesday: Closed

Featured Reviews


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  • 5/5 Gerhard G. 1 year ago on Google • 115 reviews
    Wonderful restaurant with excellent Hungarian and Romanian dishes. One of my favorite restaurants in Brașov. I love the personalized attention of the staff, their friendliness and the cozy and homely vibe of the place. Their “cash only” is a bummer but not enough to reduce my five star rating.
    5 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Oliver H. 8 months ago on Google • 214 reviews
    Food excelent, but PLEASE, can you improve something with the Presentation&decoration of your plates? Look at the 2 fotos below? Yes food was great - but this is a presentation like at a BBQ party and not at a stylish hungarian restaurant you want to be. Bring some love and attention to the plates you serve.

  • 5/5 pse 8 months ago on Google • 182 reviews
    Fabulous Wine Bar with fresh, delicious food. Stopped-in Saturday afternoon to sit and enjoy a glass of wine while looking at Mt. Tampa. This is lovely spot just off the main tourist street and crowds. I enjoyed a wonderful local red wine (owner's suggestion based on our wine conversation and spot-on) and a hot, fresh, delicious creamy cauliflower soup. While I did not sample the bread basket the croutons that accompanied the soup were lightly flavoured and chewy adding a nice texture and additional flavour to each mouthful. Waitstaff is relaxed, attentive and pleasant as I never felt rushed even as it started to fill-up I highly recommend. (Thank you again for the very generous and loving gift.)

  • 5/5 Anna K. 1 year ago on Google
    The best restaurant to experience the food of Transylvania with Hungarian influences! We had the Goulash soup for a starter, and then we had the Transylvanian dumplings and the veal stew for mains! Simply amazing! The dishes feel like a warm hug! The prices are very very good, especially in relation to the quality of the food! The owner/waiter was very friendly but professional, helpful and always at our disposal! Please take his recommendations about the wines! We tried a Hungarian white wine, it was amazing! Also don't forget to try the desserts! Thank you for everything!
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Sarah D. 2 years ago on Google
    Fine dining without fussiness. I always enjoy the atmosphere, food and wine here. Nothing here is an afterthought— the wine list and menu seem to result from careful attention. Everything speaks of quality with a refined air that isn’t stuffy. The staff are sincere in their recommendations, and the flavors offer the rare opportunity to experience the cuisine of Romania’s Hungarian-speaking minority of Transylvania. Take the gulyaș, for example. It’s a relatively clear soup from a skillfully made beef stock, with attentively-cut and cooked potatoes and carrots. It is neither overloaded with paprika nor red pepper paste, and the stock was clarified by an expert. The sarmale are so different from my grandmother’s Moldavian version. The cabbage is much less sour and the leaves spine-free and tender; the lean and flavorful filling mostly meat with very little, if any, rice; the spices balanced and restrained. It occurred to me as I was preparing to leave that I felt light and alert from a healthily prepared meal that at home would have left me slumbering away the afternoon! In these pandemic times they will immediately turn on the heaters and provide lap robes and, best of all, attentive and swift service of piping hot plates to outdoor diners. Don’t overlook the famous Szekely potato bread in the basket- this is another regional treasure. The delicious and uncommon Issa Feteasca Neagra and the good selection of palinca from cherries, pear, etc. show their thoughtful curating of offerings.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Teodoryza 5 months ago on Google • 148 reviews
    The wine selection is very good presented by a very charismatic host. I also enjoy the food, they have rare traditional recipes. It s the place if you want to try something new.

  • 1/5 Adrian S. 4 months ago on Google • 13 reviews
    Small portions, big prices, I've seen better looking food at a student cafeteria and it didn't cost 60 RON/plate. Nothing impressing here (except how fast they managed to untag&block me on Facebook).
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Diana Georgiana S. 2 years ago on Google
    Very tasty food having Hungarian authentic taste. We will definitely come back.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 iuliana g. 1 year ago on Google
    Very bad gulyas. It felt like it was diluted with water and it wasn’t very tasty. The worst I had so far in Brasov.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Dragos 10 months ago on Google
    Excellent food and really good service, family run business. The menu was different than the normal Romanian offer available in Brasov. Amazing wine list, cosy, baby friendly and the food exceptional. Will come back again.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Cezar C. 11 months ago on Google
    Vast offering of Hungarian-inspired dishes, perfect if you want to try something else than the traditional Romanian cuisine or the pizza/pasta restaurants. Everything we ordered was delicious. Extra points for the waiters, who were very friendly and even brought some toys and books for the kids ro play with
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jon M. 1 year ago on Google
    I liked this place. Small menu, which meant the staff were knowledgeable about it dish. Very welcoming and would go again. The only issue was, at the time I went they were not taking card payments.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Alexandru Valentin R. 10 months ago on Google
    Excelent food and service, very good advice of somelier for wine choosing. Great ambiance!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Hunor D. 8 months ago on Google • 85 reviews
    Excellent Hungarian restaurant offering great classic dishes made out of raw materials personally handpicked from local farm markets by dedicated and talented owners.

  • 1/5 Vlad T. 2 months ago on Google • 29 reviews New
    Came in the restaurant and asked for a menu, only to be told that the menu was outside, which I found really rude. The waiter didn't know that I cane from one of the sides and the menu was only at the main terrace entry? In any case, very disappointing attitude and a lost customer.

  • 5/5 Beatrice I. 3 months ago on Google • 20 reviews New
    Delicious food, excellent service, and lovely ambiance. Highly recommend!

  • 5/5 Wizander 9 months ago on Google • 19 reviews
    Wow! I was really impressed by the incredible hospitality of the waiters here and by the food. I am from Romania but I went here with a couple of my foreign friends and I really recommend it to people who come from other countries if they want to taste some of our traditional dishes. The waiter's english was very good and his kindness was on another level. Five deserved stars to this place!

  • 5/5 Zoltán M. 6 months ago on Google • 7 reviews
    Restaurant: Great Transilvanian entrée and international main course. These two courses were sufficient for me to write this review. (The dessert is yet to arrive…)

  • 5/5 Josephine Sarah K. 2 months ago on Google • 6 reviews New
    What an incredible restaurant! Everything was delicious: we started with the beef goulash and beef marrow with homemade sourdough bread. The combinations of flavors were exceptional - a perfect blend of Hungarian paprika in the goulash and garlic in the marrow. Then the waiter, who is also an in house sommelier, brought us tripe soup, which was delicious. The wine we had was perfectly paired with our meal, so my compliments to the sommelier! For the main course, we had pork ribs, veal stew and duck leg. Everything was so good, I can’t stop raving about this place. Six out of five stars!!

  • 5/5 Anca L. 8 months ago on Google
    We spent a very nice evening in the Pilvax restaurant with friends. the food was very good, as well as the wine recommendation from the staff. Really cozy, relaxed place ran by friendly and welcoming people!

  • 5/5 Codin C. 11 months ago on Google
    A very good example of good Hungarian cuisine. Located centrally, on Michael Weiss street, it also has a terrace, on which we ate. Excellent service, nice staff. For its price, the food is very good.

  • 3/5 Rich G. 8 months ago on Google
    Very tasty food but portion size of all the dishes our table ordered were on the small side so if you're really hungry expect to have to order more than just a main.

  • 2/5 skaccomatto24 10 months ago on Google
    Not happy with the service. Really slow when it's almost empty and basically unresponsive when full. I didn't really like the Transylvania dumplings but that's just taste. No working pos today so only cash, but math is not their strongest (gave a 100 and 1 lei for a 61 bill and got 30 as a change - when I realized I was already moving away and I was in total hurry, given the super slow pace of the service).

  • 5/5 Mollie M. 1 year ago on Google
    We had dinner there tonight and it was the best food we had in Brasov. We had the tomato salad (the tomatoes are grown by the restaurant and they were very very tasty) we also tried the soups which were fantastic and lastly we had the braised cheek stew with polenta and the pork loin with risotto. The food here is very high quality and reminds me of the food my grandma used to make me when I was little. You are also offered complimentary home made bread ! The staff are very attentive and friendly. If I could give 10 stars I would !! Also check out their Instagram to see all the yummy food :D

  • 5/5 Joanna G. 1 year ago on Google
    Rather small menu but with interesting choices. Medium sized portions, just right to have a desert afterwards. Risotto with mushrooms was very tasty, well seasoned. Pasta with cabbage was also delicious, reminded me about Polish “łazanki” but without mushrooms. Deserts looked yummy but I haven’t tried them. Definitely recommend this place for a dinner.

  • 5/5 Brankica C. 1 year ago on Google
    The restaurant looks nice and clean, the service was good and so was the food. The pos terminal didn't work when we got there, but we were told that from the start so there weren't any issues about it.

  • 5/5 Slobodan T. 2 years ago on Google
    Great food, fast service. POS terminal didn't work at this moment, but staff told us before we ordered so there were no issues.

  • 4/5 Ioannis A. 2 years ago on Google
    Excellent service and friendly staff, the kitchen when we visited was somewhat slow. Good food. Great for families

  • 1/5 Mariya M. 1 year ago on Google
    Don't waste your time in this eatery It is overrated on Google, perhaps this is a vote cheating Poor quality food, terrible service Better go to "Prato" next to it or to "Dei Frati" nearby Even "La Ceaun" on the same street is better

  • 5/5 Mark E. 1 year ago on Google
    Absolutely wonderful place! The food was superb and the staff were friendly and fun, and helpful and knowledgeable when it came to questions about the menu and the dishes. We had a mushroom risotto and beef tenderloin for our main courses and they were both delicious. Make sure you leave room at the end of the meal because their desserts are also very very good. I will defiantly be going back to Pilvax next time I'm in Brasov.

  • 5/5 Helen E. 1 year ago on Google
    Sensational restaurant. We stopped for a snack and a glass of wine and ended up staying for a while. The dumplings with creamed spinach were delicious and the sommelier picked out several local wines for us to try. All also delicious. Reasonably priced with wonderful service.

  • 5/5 Pusa Ana M. 1 year ago on Google
    One of those very few places where the food taste like good homemade food, cooked by your Nana. Not a large variety of options, almost all the plates are based on the Hungarian cuisine but everything it's very tasteful. Be aware that on Sundays they have a short timeline and on Mondays and Tuesdays they are closed.

  • 5/5 Catalin I. 1 year ago on Google
    Even the restaurant is not new in Brasov 's culinary landscape, and I travel quite often to Brasov, just recently I entered this restaurant. Really nice! A (not too) short menu, interesting dishes. What we had was very tasty, well cooked; the emphasis is more on good ingredients then on "sophisticated" design or flavours - and this is something I like. Talking about ingredients, it seems that they are coming from different small local producers. The taste confirm it. The staff is very friendly, service was good. A positive experience from beginning to the end. My only regret is I never stopped in that place before ...

  • 5/5 Simona O. 1 year ago on Google
    I felt like home and found the tastes from my childhood but also new flavours. Very nice people, amazing food and very good vibes.

  • 5/5 Viola H. 1 year ago on Google
    Best restaurant in the area, and I do not only mean Brasov county :) I would rather say the best restaurant in the heart of Transylvania. Though I live only 30-40 minutes far from Brasov, just discovered this lovely place a few month ago. Going back on regular basis ever since. Food is good and authentic, staff is friendly and welcoming, location is excellent :) certainly could not wish for more. Recommend this place with all my heart 🤍

  • 5/5 Andria M. 1 year ago on Google
    Very tasty dishes in a more upscale yet still affordable setting. We loved the chicken paprikash and veal stew. My husband was a big fan of the ribs. The recommended wine was delicious. A very nice stop in the center of Brasov.

  • 5/5 Flavia D. 1 year ago on Google
    Great food, friendly staff. Reliable quality. And they have some interesting items on the menu, very local. I don't know why there are so few Hungarian restaurants in Brasov but I am glad we have this one. It's a must try especially for tourists. I often bring guests here because it's predictably good.👍

  • 5/5 Hannah B. 1 year ago on Google
    Stupendous! The food was wonderful and the menu had allergen symbols and was in English which was fantastic. The owner was able to recommend a beautiful Hungarian wine to pair with dinner and the whole meal was very reasonable. Would definitely come again! Thank you

  • 5/5 Jack M. 1 year ago on Google
    Transylvanian food is fantastic and this is the place to try it! What a great place with a great host who helped us choose a bottle of wine. We also tried some Hungarian food which was equally as delicious. Highly recommend! Cost around 300 ROM which is around £60 for a bottle of wine and 3 courses (2022). Will be back! Mulțumesc!

  • 5/5 Reyna 1 year ago on Google
    Very good Transylvanian dishes and nice outdoor seating on a warm day. Service is excellent. Among our top picks in Brasov. Their desserts are also great especially the floating island.

  • 5/5 Sanyi F. 1 year ago on Google
    Local family restaurant with nice atmosphere, good food, perfect if you are looking for a place in the old town to stay and eat with friends or collegues. The pálinka is great.

  • 3/5 Andra Maria G. 1 year ago on Google
    The host was very friendly, but the food was dull. Maybe is just a matter of taste - we had the gulas soup & some beef in souce with polenta (never mind the kid, nothing would of work for her anyway). And the cash only policy or revolut by phone is a big no, sorry, and has no justification nowdays.

  • 5/5 Diana P. 2 years ago on Google
    Delicious Hungarian food! The staff is very nice, prices are good and the meniu gives you a lot of different options. I totally recommend this place! From the outside you can’t tell how good the restaurant is, but come inside and give it a try. It is totaly worthy! 🍀 I think they should invest a bit more into a more attractive design for the terrace and interior and also, they need better music. With the right atmosphere, I think that this place would attract more people. They deserve to have a full restaurant every day! ✨

  • 5/5 Naomi D. 2 months ago on Google • 2 reviews New
    The service here is always amazing. Very warm, kind waiting staff made it feel cosy and you felt truly valued as a customer. The food is hearty and feels homely, and our host selected a lovely wine for us. A must visit for me next time I come to Brasov.


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