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TaBar

Restaurant Bar Wine bar Tapas restaurant

👍👍 Wonderful! Service was amazing. Food was fresh, creative and fun! I wish I could come back in fall to see how the menu changes. Our host was generous with his time educating us on the local wines. People often mention wine, menu, service, experience, waiter, wines, dishes, great, good, staff,


Address

Ribji trg 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Website

www.tabar.si

Contact

+386 31 764 063

Price rating

$$$ $

Rating on Google Maps

4.40 (886 reviews)

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Frequently mentioned in reviews: wine (28) menu (12) service (12) experience (12) waiter (11) wines (10) dishes (9) great (8) good (8) staff (8)
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  • 2/5 Olle 1 year ago on Google
    I have a hard time understanding both the hype and the Michelin star. I’m not a big guy but the size of the portions made me leave hungry even after having a six course dinner here. The waiter was very attentive and nice which is a plus. Also the menus offers many fun dishes like pig brain. Unfortunately about half of the dishes are great… some were just a bit plain. If you have no problem spending 80 € per person on a fun albeit decent dinner I’d say it’s worth a visit but if not I’d advise you to spend that money elsewhere in Ljubljana considering it’s a city with many great restaurants.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jeff H. 8 months ago on Google
    Wonderful! Service was amazing. Food was fresh, creative and fun! I wish I could come back in fall to see how the menu changes. Our host was generous with his time educating us on the local wines.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 matan s. 11 months ago on Google
    I expected more from a Michelin restaurant. My friend and I had the six-course menu here yesterday. The food was nice, but for the price we paid, I expected a higher level of quality. The portions were super small, and for 80 euros per person, I believe you should leave the restaurant feeling full. The real embarrassing thing was the toilets - they looked like gas station toilets and smelled even worse. However, the service was great.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Laura F. 2 years ago on Google
    The most expensive joke ever. The dishes were not only redicously small, but on top even not good. How is anyone brave enough to charge 10 Euro for a handful of small cucumber pieces or (!) a single tomatoe with hints of cheese? Anyway this was an experience and the many 5 Star reviews speak for themselves, so maybe others seem to be able to enjoy this. At least the wine was good and the waiters were very friendly!
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Kalianne F. 8 months ago on Google
    We opted for the à la carte menu. The food was simply delicious! The waiter was super friendly and his wines suggestions were SPOT on. Bonus for a plethora of wine by the glass, especially orange in our case. We really enjoyed our lunch on the terrasse.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 André M. 2 years ago on Google
    Nice staff and centrally located, but I wasn't very convinced. Not really a fan of strange mixtures, and, although I understand this is a more "gourmet" and trendy place, I found the doses are ridiculously small. For instance, the zebra tomato with cheese is literally A (one) tomato with a teeny tiny spread of cheese. The brioche with mussels, the same, you get 1-2 mussels in each of the three tiny pieces of brioche and that's it. The service was good, the person attending to us was very nice and explained everything very well, but I was very disappointed, especially after reading these reviews on Google Maps...
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Ella van den O. 1 year ago on Google
    Amazing food, great wine and super friendly service. The staff gave us very nice explanations about the food and advice for the wine. The decoration of the restaurant is very cozy. You can buy some wine as well, which we did! Totally recommend it. If you want some fine dining to share this is the perfect place as all dishes come in tapas portions. We wanted to go there for dinner but it was fully booked. So I would recommend to book a table in advance or go there for lunch like we did. Totally worth it!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Fanny B. 1 year ago on Google
    From start to finish we are satisfied with the food, wine, and service. The place is cozy. Super friendly and helpful staff. We asked for recommendations for the tapas and the wine pairing, and it was amazing! The food was excellent, with lots of flavor and texture. Delicious wine!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Whitney B. 6 months ago on Google
    Incredible dinner experience, highly recommend. My friend and I split the six course tasting, and even though we had no clue what we were getting, we loved every bite and portions were slightly larger than we've seen at similar types of restaurants. Our waiter was excellent and explained every dish in detail, while being able to accommodate allergies and providing numerous wine recommendations from the extensive local wine list, all of which we enjoyed. Plus, we loved being able to sit outside on a beautiful night. The restaurant was tucked away and totally unassuming (without a local recommendation, we may have never seen it) but offered one of the best meals I've had in a long time!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Alessandro P. 5 months ago on Google
    Great food and a huge selection of local wine. Prices are a bit high but worth it for the quality of the meal. Great attention from the kitchen to my wife's food allergies, not always like that.

  • 5/5 Lilia P. 1 year ago on Google
    Delicious food and really good waiters. We took a 9 course menu - the first 6 courses were absolutely amazing, with the star of the show being the pork brain! The last 3 courses were a little disappointing following that (and the ginger sorbet was far too experimental for my taste 😅). Our waiter was excellent and a real wine expert, he offered to select some wine pairings for us and we tasted a lot of interesting wines that really went with the food. His service was fantastic and he actually moved us to another table, as a fairly loud group had been seated near us, and he could tell they were disturbing our romantic date! So that was really appreciated.

  • 5/5 Sam H. 10 months ago on Google
    Exceptional service and food!! If you’re in Ljbuljana and want a dining experience that will blow you away, look no further than TaBar. Delicious and creative plates are paired with an amazing wine selection, curated by a staff with a great knowledge of the wines that will help pick the best one for you. 11/10!

  • 5/5 Gunnar S. 10 months ago on Google
    An overall wonderful experience. Starting with the location in a little courtyard removed just a stone‘s throw away from the busy river cafés, quiet enough to enjoy the spectacle in the distance. Detail oriented food and some of the best service we‘ve had to date - obviously courting our experience with the most exquisite wine accompaniment, opening our hearts even more to this great, young country with age old traditions. As a cherry on top, this is a fine dining experience focussing on what matters without the pretend, allowing for t-shirts and our dog to join us. 5 Stars hands down!

  • 5/5 Juliette P. 1 year ago on Google
    Such incredible food and service. We came for my mothers birthday and we’re lucky enough to get a table without a reservation! Our waiter was so kind, and guided us through the menu. Instead of the set menu we allowed our waiter to suggest dishes and just went with the flow - the food was unexpected and delicious - I’m still thinking of the anchovies and tomatoes. At the end of the night, we were surprised with a complimentary dessert to celebrate, and bags of bread to take home. A meal I will never forget! Thank you, Tabar! (ps - food was so good I forgot to take pictures)

  • 4/5 Zara S. 4 months ago on Google
    Had the 9 course tasting menu. Service was a little slow to start with but got better through the evening, still took 3 hours to get through it. Food was amazing! Some strange, some tastier than others but all good and would definitely recommend the experience!

  • 5/5 Charlie T. 4 months ago on Google
    We had an incredible meal here earlier this year, TaBar champions local Slovenian produce and you can see why - everything we tried was absolutely delicous from the bread to the wine and everything in between. Our waiter was a star and gave us some amazing recommendations, none of which we regretted. Will hopefully be back soon!

  • 5/5 Birgitte T. 8 months ago on Google
    We had the six course menu and it was very delicious! And very friendly waiter who let is try different wines before we chose. Many Slovenian wines.

  • 5/5 Byron J. 7 months ago on Google
    Only in Ljubljana for one night and this meal was an excellent choice. Huge selection of local natural and orange wines, which were well selected by the staff. Went for the 6 course menu and glad we did! The long spoons for the dessert course were unique.

  • 5/5 Lisa F. 1 year ago on Google
    Excellent food, incredible wine, when the staff say “trust me” you will not be disappointed. We sat down at 8pm and were last to leave at 1am. A fantastic experience

  • 5/5 Eeffie B. 1 year ago on Google
    AMAZING experience! My husband and I went there for lunch and absolutely LOVED it! The food was delicious, fresh, and authentic. The service was attentive and caring. We actually booked it again for our last night in Ljubljana. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

  • 2/5 M H. 1 year ago on Google
    At first glance, this is an inviting eatery and wine bar. Here are the positives: the service was efficient, the wine list extensive and comprehensive (all Slovenian wines), the food that we had was well prepared. I had carp and kid of goat, my friends had other delightful dishes, such as sardines, venison sausage and beef tartare. Our vegetarian friend had… not very much. Here's where the missing two stars come in – there was not a single dish that excluded animal protein (yes there was cheese, which doesn't count in this context). When we asked our slightly tired waiter to advise, he suggested to take the meaty bits off some of the dishes, leaving salad leaves or a bit of vegetable, presenting a solution straight from 1987 for a situation that should not occur in a Western urban downtown restaurant in 2022. Now, we know that this bar previously had a good offering for vegetarians. Every conservative tapas bar in the world does. So not catering to people who don't eat meat seems to have been a political decision by management (who assumedly were also behind the pink and blue genderised toilet doors in the back, disabled people get a green door). We made the best out of this evening, and had a reasonably good meal with lots of wines (whilst TaBar's wine list is long they don't actually stock all that's advertised on the menu, another slight annoyance.) Unless TaBar becomes more inclusive in its offering, exclude it from your travel plans.

  • 5/5 Katarina A. 1 year ago on Google
    Absolutely lovely. Amazing staff and great atmosphere. The food and wine could be described in superlatives only. Hats off to TaBar 🫶🏼

  • 5/5 Gal S. 1 year ago on Google
    We decited to celebrate our aniversary in TaBar and we found it to be beyond our expectations. The ambience was perfect, the service was really friendly and proffessional. We tried many orange wines that were carefully picked by our waiter and we loved it. We took a 6-course menu, which was amazing, everything we tasted melted in our mouths. Our top three plates were chicken pate with sauce made of teran wine, dandelion rolls with rhubarb and raspberry and finally smoked deer with celery and juniper oil. On top of all we had an honor to meet the head chef and hear the philosophy behind his plates. The restaurant is zero waste and they are offering seasonal food. We will be definitely coming back! Highly recommended.

  • 3/5 Jan 1 year ago on Google
    The restaurant has high ambitions, for sure. The dishes we received were well prepared and tasty, but quite pricey and very small. Would probably recommend to go more for the wine (great wine list) and have some snacks to accompany the wine, rather than go there for dinner. And be aware of the "mountain oyster" dish on the menu - it's a bull's testicle 😂😐

  • 5/5 George R. 2 years ago on Google
    Incredible dining experience. The waiter was brilliant, very knowledgeable about the food and also the wine pairings. They were also very accommodating to gluten intolerance.

  • 5/5 Gabe O. 2 years ago on Google
    Excellent delicious food and very friendly staff. You better make your reservation before going there as it can be very busy. Gluten free options available and they help you to make the right choice.

  • 5/5 Andreas L. 2 years ago on Google
    Utterly perfect. Just go and thank me later.

  • 5/5 Juana C. 2 years ago on Google
    Wonderful place! The food is incredibly delicious and made with so much love and attention to detail. We loved every single dish. The Service was the best we had in Slovenia and so far it was our best culinary experience here. There is even one more thing that was missing to make the experience even more extraordinary - the bathrooms would definitely need some refurbishing or at least more attention to detail. Apart from that - lovely place!

  • 5/5 Ema Elena O. 2 years ago on Google
    Amazing food, atmosphere, people, and whole concept. We really enjoyed everything and would definitely recommend for the locals and tourists.

  • 5/5 Jenn C. 2 years ago on Google
    Delicious, presentation is on point and the prices are fair. The service is impeccable!

  • 5/5 Maayan S. 2 years ago on Google
    We had a quick stop at Ta Bar pre lunch so we only ordered 5 dishes. Our favorite were the burger and the mussels and truffles on brioche. Very bold flavors, big wine selection, we had orange wine for the first time and we liked it.


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  • Payments
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    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Wine
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Alcohol
    • ✓️ Spirits
    • ✓️ Cocktails
    • ✓️ Small plates
    • ✓️ Late-night food
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible seating
    • ✗ Wheelchair-accessible car park
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Brunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
    • ✓️ Seating
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✗ Delivery
    • ✓️ Outdoor seating

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