Kostenkovci
village

Treasure-
hunter's
house

The House
With the
Umbrellas

Kostenkovci
Inn

Tavern
‘’The Gold
Coin’’

Attractions

Horse
Riding

Wine
Tourism

Religious
Tourism

   Dear customers,
   In my tavern the dishes are cooked in a specially made copper cookware. As you know the copper gives the dishes a particular taste and its ability to warm up fast and to distribute the heat evenly doesn’t allow the vitamins and the other useful ingredients of the goods to be destroyed during the cooking process.
   Tavern-winery “The Gold Coin” isn’t a fast-food restaurant. The goal is my clients to have a good meal with delicious, nourishing and healthy food. So, don’t hurry – most of the dishes are cooked at the moment, and we also avoid using deeply frozen meat. The average duration for cooking a dish is 45 min. We don’t want you to get bored, so meanwhile you can have a drink or two from our hot, home-made plum brandy; taste the flat sausages, babeks or the lambs’ heads…

... By the way, the lamb’s meat, the kid’s meat and the veal, as well as the rabbits and the chickens are from my own farm. The Europeans call them happy (free) animals, I call them pampered, because they graze freely on the meadows of mountain Stara Planina, not knowing what the words antibiotics or hormones mean. Our yoghurt, the cheese from sheep’s and goats’ milk are also unique, because we produce them ourselves and we don’t skim the milk. You can order dishes cooked by your own recipes, having in mind the products which you can see in the menu.
   The special collection’s brand of wine mavrud called “The Gold Coin” is produced and bottled specially for us by the most prestigious Bulgarian wine house “Vila Vinifera” in the village Brestovica. One glass from this wine is a real adventure. With a bottle you can forget even your wife. Enjoy it!

   My grandfather Ivan, whom I don’t remember, had been an incorrigible feaster and drunkard and he died at the age of 40. He kept a smoked up but cheerful tavern in a neighborhood in the town of Plovdiv, called Karshiaka; it was very close to the river – at the corner of the former commercial street “Karlovska”. He was the best griller at this side of the river – this fact filled his tavern with songs and rattling of chairs till the early morning, and the thrilling and sweet smell from the grill floated over the whole neighborhood.
   I don’t know why but my father and my grandmother barely ever mentioned him. Maybe they despised him because he had left them alone just at the beginning of the II World War. Or they envied him because he had gone to Heaven without taking them…

   ...And so, I had only two pictures left from my grandfather at home. On the first one, he and my father have wriggled their heads out of the holes of a cardboard, painted as an airplane. From the pilot’s cabin was peeping out the curly, astonished child’s head of my father and right behind him was my grandfather with a floating painted pilot’s scarf and a proud look on his face. They were flying over Plovdiv, over the river and the hills, almost ascending to the heavens. The second picture was a real treasure. There you can see Ivancho – the griller, sitting on the wooden floor, negligently leaning against the wall, with twisted lecherous moustaches and with a glazy stare. In his solemnly stretched arm he’s holding his bowler hat …
   Ever since I decided that besides a journalist and a publisher I will also be a griller, this image inspired me and possessed my soul.
   As my grandmother Luchka, the widow of Ivancho, said, this thing – life, it’s a hell of a life…!
   Cheers!                                                                                                 Victoria and Atanas Spasovi

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Contacts: 0888 560 840, 0896 829 238, e-mail: bgkostenkovci@yahoo.com

Bed and breakfast: 30 lv. per person