Over the past few months I have eaten several times at T&T Restaurant in the Red Square area of Varna after it was recommended by a friend, and I recently paid a return visit at the end of July. The greeting from the staff was still of the same high standard as was the immaculate service that I had found on previous occasions, despite the fact that due to the warmer weather the restaurant itself was very busy with all the outside tables and most of the interior ones taken, luckily we had the fore-sight to book and our table was waiting.
With the outside temperature running in the mid 30’s we were glad of the cool air conditioned interior in which to sit and enjoy our meal. T&T’s menu offers a wide selection of dishes cooked to a high standard and beautifully presented and to be recommended are the Argentinean steaks which are some of the very best available in Varna, and when coupled with the extensive wine collection makes for an excellent meal by any standards.
If like me you are someone who enjoys wine for itself then this is THE place to come, with over 200 wines available at any time ranging from rare vintages to the more common ones T&T is an exceptional place to come and enjoy yourself. They have some very special wines for the connoisseur including a full range of vintages ranging from 1993, 1994 and 1995 from the Gorchiva Vineyards Special Reserve collection of Cabernet Savignons, a single vineyard 2003 Domanitza Cabernet, a 1996 Domain Boyer Royal Reserve Cabernet, a 1990 Stambolovo Merlot that is quite outstanding, as well as many other more modest yet very good red wines from other regions. The white and rose collections are also outstanding with Muscat’s, Chardonnay’s and Traminar types all well represented including a very nice 2002 Rose Winery Limited Edition Chardonnay, excellent with fish, a Domain Boyer Royal Selection Traminar, a 2004 Barrique Early Melnik Rose and a Svishtov Winery 2004 Cabernet Rose that served chilled with a fish starter is superb.
I personally had a starter of the cauliflower salad with blue cheese sauce, very good indeed, and my companion a smoked salmon salad, also very good according to her, well she ate it all and refused to allow me even a small taster! We followed up with mushrooms from the grill stuffed with cheese shared between us. My companion for her main course had the Four Seasons Chicken Loins, which are grilled chicken loins with pickled gherkins, mushrooms, bacon and onions in a leavened cream sauce, myself I could not resist a Steak Diane but was torn between that and some of the other superb dishes on offer and was very tempted by the John Dori in Curry sauce but there is always another day.
All of this was beautifully presented and served and made the whole evening an occasion to be remembered, I can recommend T&T to all.
