What Chefs Eat in Ljubljana

What do chefs love to eat in Ljubljana? Want to eat like top chefs? We’re going to do to two episodes on recommended restaurants and specific dishes in Ljubljana. One will be recommendations from local eaters, and I’ll save my personal favorites for that one. But this episode has a twist to it: I’ve asked five top chefs, two of them with Michelin starred res-taurants in Ljubljana, for their recommendations. Where do chefs like to eat when they eat out in Ljubljana? And more specifically, what do they order? Because while it’s interesting to learn which establishments are preferred by professional chefs, I think it’s a step more interesting to find out exactly what dishes they crave and what they’d recommend to the rest of us. With that in mind, I spoke to Jorg Zupan and Igor Jagodic, the Michelin-starred chefs, as well as Riki, the chef and owner of my favorite local place to bring tourists—Pr’Jurju in Kamniska Bistrica, about thirty minutes from Ljubljana into the mountains. I brought a pair of expat former chefs—Brit Jason Hartley and American Jake, editor in chief of Guts Magazine, there for an outra-geously good lunch, including schnitzel the size of a snowboard, and asked them for their favorites.