Traditional food in Neamt County

If you wish to return in time and to experience the traditional food of Romania we invite you to visit Neamt County where you’ll have the chance to taste the cooking from Moldova region. On these parts people still cook following old recipes kept from generation to generation.

The most well known traditional foods from this area are polenta served with cracklings, steak, cheese and cream, stew, smoked meat, chicken soup and borscht cabbage and pork stew. These dishes are accompanied by delicious ones made of wheat flour: cozonac (a cake with nuts), “poale-n brau” and “alivenci” that are like pies.

For those that don’t want to eat meat there are dishes made with vegetables like cabbage, eggplant, beans, tomatoes, peppers, onions, leeks, mushrooms and garlic. The traditional ways of cooking involve baking or pickling in salted, smoked, roasted or stewed. A large portion of food can also be grilled.