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Restaurant "Istar"

Restaurant

One of the Best Places To Visits in Silistra


Address

ул. „Капитан Кръстев“ 17А, 7500 Industrialna Zona, Silistra, Bulgaria

Website

www.restaurantistar.bg

Contact

+359 87 710 1880

Price rating

$$ $$

Rating on Google Maps

4.60 (1.2K reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Monday: (New Year's Day), 8 am to 12 pm, Hours might differ
  • Tuesday: 8 am to 12 pm
  • Wednesday: 8 am to 12 pm
  • Thursday: 8 am to 12 pm
  • Friday: 8 am to 12 pm
  • Saturday: 8 am to 12 pm
  • Sunday: 8 am to 11 pm

Featured Reviews


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  • 5/5 Hristo H. 11 months ago on Google
    That restaurant is great. The food is very delicious and the personal is polite. The atmosphere is wonderful.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Annа Boeva T. 1 year ago on Google
    Very beautiful restaurant with great garden and nice food!
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Kremi G. 3 years ago on Google
    Nice location by the river! Amazing service! Reasonable prices and a levelled up dishes! Well done! Keep it up! I am proud to see a place managed like that!
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Law O. 2 years ago on Google
    The restaurant has two large guest rooms. The summer garden is located with a beautiful view of the river and Romania. The proximity of the river brings a feeling of space and coolness. The food offered is of good quality. The menu has pictures of the dishes that correspond to the ones served. Various salads, seafood, Italian and Bulgarian dishes are offered. Prices are in the middle range. The staff is kind and responsive. Jaco's parrot attracts children's attention.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Reneta K. 9 months ago on Google
    Great and tasty food, good atmosphere and vibes, pleasant place with a beautiful view of river Danube. Thr staff are friendly and helpful, the food selection is teally nice and the food itself is very tasty and fresh. Compliments to the chef that works there! There is an inside and outside area, both very welcoming and comfort. If you feel a tad cooler in the evening, there are blankets to help yourself. Lovely place with plenty of seats, suitable for a few people or more. Overall - pleasant, comforting experience with delicious food!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Momchil B. 2 years ago on Google
    Great atmosphere, friendly staff and most importantly - delicious food. One thing to consider being at a riverside restaurant - take precautions against mosquitos.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Vladimir V. 1 year ago on Google
    It was highly recommended to visit this restaurant, so well... I took thre stars, because the customer service is terrible, people you need to look after your clients... I don't know where to start from... Firstly, the menu is unbelievable, like a book to read... 4 pages only on salads - are you serious. Waiting more than 10 minutes someone to clean the table from the previous clients. Secondly, my cousin and I ordered one chicken Cesar salad and one fish soup each, what to say the salad arrived 25 minutes later... so I was eating, waiting, eating, waiting and the soup became cold for Eskimos... In addition, the mains arrived immediately after the salad... no time to adjust the food. Dishes became cold as well. The worst part was when I order a bottle of rose wine... Jesus, what a mistake... took them 20 minutes to arrive... my main was Rabbit stew, kind of taste, but cold... the wine was warmer than the main dish,chilled one, yeah. To pay the bill was quick, coz the shift finished... Overall, took us 3 hours for lunch, right!!! What to recommend, I don't know... awesome experience, never will be back! Good luck!!!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Kolichkova '. 4 months ago on Google
    This place looks good but then that's it. The food is mostly fried or baked on a barbeque and served with the oil still leaking. I don't know what that parchment was at the bottom of my plate but a long time ago it soaked in oil. The spinach salad with quinoa was supposed to have honey dressing. Well, the dressing was somewhere else, just not in my salad. It must have been on a vacation or something. I don't know. Perhaps, the tomatoes were supposed to replace it. At least they were well chopped. Yes, 'chopped'. The cheese in the salad was missing, at least the eggs were there. Or somewhat of a part of an egg. A table for three was actually a large table with a few chairs taken away. We tried to adapt and pull the chair closer to the others but the waiters quickly scolded us, saying that we'll be an obstacle and they cannot serve the other tables. On top of that, a table for three will suggest communicating with the people there. Well, since it was a large surface of a table it was hardly possible to hear anything because of the nearby ... Voices of the people and the music everywhere. It's as if the interior designer did not finish their job with the furniture allocation. Honestly, it felt like a torture through sounds! Weren't there any other options for the smaller groups of people to be allocated, so you decided to put them in the middle of the service hall?????! Really? Last but not least, the miraculous shift manager barely had personnel around the place, so we had to 'summon' a waiter by waving or shouting through the crowd for some attention, from someone, eventually. Frankly , every other discreet way has been tested. Not like the food was worth such an effort. Personally, at the end of my visit , I was pushing myself to find anything nice as an experience and I was wondering how the other visitors found it 'great food', 'nice place'. Not even close to the prices attached to those dishes even. At least it was possible to pay either with a card or cash. Overall, observation: Appalling! And I'm rarely leaving a negative opinion on a restaurant or a bar.

  • 5/5 adrian z. 2 years ago on Google
    Great lunch menu, large variety of fresh fish from the river, the fish soup is a must! The garden with river view is one of the best alongside the Bulgarian Danube line. Friendly, but a bit slower than expected staff. The best choice in Silistra.

  • 5/5 Yavora B. 6 months ago on Google
    An excellent place One of the best restaurants I have ever been There are all kind of amazing dishes: from pork to fish, also vegetarian and vegan dishes, salads, soups, starters, amazing deserts and also a great selection of wines and also other drinks! The staff is friendly and kind, super nice, the place is by the river Danube and have a great garden, atmosphere is great Recommend a reservation

  • 5/5 Aleksandar Valkov (Arch. E. 7 months ago on Google
    A very nice place, excellent food, but there are mosquitos despite all the attempts of the stuff, because it's right next to the river. Also if you want to go there on Fridays or Saturdays you need a reservation, it's always full to the brim

  • 5/5 Rosen R. 10 months ago on Google
    Delicious food. Wide variety of local and popular dishes. The staff is kind and friendly. There is separate dining area for smoking and a garden with tables outside. Clean and nice everywhere.

  • 5/5 Anemona S. 1 year ago on Google
    Awesome restaurant. Very good good and a pleasant atmosphere. Hope to visit agan soon!

  • 5/5 Peter W. 1 year ago on Google
    Very nice place. Menue choice is amazing. Well prepared and served. Prices absolute moderate. Non smoking and smoking area available. It is recommended to do reservations in advance especially on weekends. We will come back for sure

  • 4/5 Nick W. 1 year ago on Google
    Nice location and decor. Staff friendly with good service.

  • 5/5 Stoil S. 1 year ago on Google
    Quick service, delicious meals, prepared with attention. Excellent panorama to the Danube and easy to find parking spaces around.

  • 5/5 Alexandra T. 1 year ago on Google
    Didn't like the duck that much

  • 5/5 Nick A. 1 year ago on Google
    An unexpectedly great meal in Silistra. Delicious peppers with sheep cheese, tabbouleh with quinoa and Danube whitebait type fish, and a very nice half bottle of Silver Angel Bulgarian wine. Don't forget the mosquito spray, and I felt a little underdressed, but when long distance biking, options are limited! Lovely service and they have the menu in English on tablets.

  • 5/5 Daniel B. 1 year ago on Google
    Just a little bit overpriced. Everything else - food, service, view, atmosphere - was exceptional! 8,5/10. Must visit. :)

  • 5/5 stoil d. 2 years ago on Google
    It is a real gem,amazing meals and freshly baked breads, suburb quality and service,must visit place on Danube shore.Reserve in advance.

  • 5/5 Mihai B. 3 years ago on Google
    Good food, large portions, and affordable prices, lower than on the romanian side. Very nice view over Danube, and the terrace is very beautiful. The staff was very nice, she knew English pretty well. You can pay by card. We paid 60 leva for three persons.

  • 4/5 Moto M. 3 years ago on Google
    We only went there for coffee and deserts and coffee was top (Richard) , desert also delicious, actually best homemade biscuit cake that I have ever tried! Great atmosphere also, service good. It was crowded so be patient. Only give 4 starts cuz it was very warm inside (no free table outside) , the aircon was OFF. And outside was 36 degrees.

  • 5/5 Oktay P. 2 years ago on Google
    Very nice and clean place. Very posh looking. Good service. Reasonable prices. The fish soup was good, but the mixed fish meal was not really nice. I would say 9 out of 10 as a mark.

  • 5/5 Nedko G. 2 years ago on Google
    Haven't been impressed by service in a while. Will this place did impress me. Everything was fast and tasty. Also portions were large enough even for me. The manager saw a steak was not well made and took it out of the bill without us saying anything. Would visit again if I have the chance.

  • 4/5 Данко �. 2 years ago on Google
    There is a field of lavender in front of the restorant to keep mosquitoes away, which works most of the time :) I had sea food, kalamari tentacles and shrimps, really great taste for such food. Variety of salads and Bulgarian dishes are served as well, so it is a good place to have your diner. For three days we had two dinners there, so it is quite a nice place to visit, even with your kids. Will visit it again.

  • 5/5 Sorin D. 2 years ago on Google
    A restaurant to visit in Silistra, although the area in which it is located is not one of the most picturesque (the industrial area). It compensates, however, due to the panorama of the Danube river, which appears before the eyes of customers. The food menu is decent, being professionally cooked. Between the restaurant terrace and the Danube there is a plot planted with lavender.


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Amenities


  • Parking
    • ✓️ Free parking lot
    • ✓️ Plenty of parking
    • ✓️ Free of charge street parking
  • Payments
    • ✓️ Credit cards
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Wine
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Alcohol
    • ✓️ Spirits
    • ✓️ Cocktails
    • ✓️ Small plates
    • ✓️ Vegan options
    • ✓️ Late-night food
    • ✓️ Vegetarian options
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible toilet
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible seating
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible car park
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible entrance
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Brunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
    • ✓️ Seating
    • ✓️ Catering
    • ✓️ Breakfast
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Delivery
    • ✓️ Takeaway
    • ✓️ Outdoor seating
    • ✓️ No-contact delivery

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