NewsBite

Advertisement

Eastern European

Esterhazy cake with walnut meringue and lemon buttercream.

Sink your teeth into eastern European comfort food and cake at Cafe Transylvania

Dani Valent discovers a taste of Romania and Hungary in the ’burbs.

  • Dani Valent
Chicken Kyiv.
14/20

Ukrainian comfort foods get the star treatment at this feel-good Chippendale restaurant

Chicken Kyiv, borscht, dumplings and cabbage rolls all get an update at social enterprise Kyiv Social.

  • Terry Durack
The Polish ploughman's plate includes ham, Kielbasa or house-cured salmon, pickle, egg, relish, vegetable salad and tomato.

Forget My Kitchen Rules, family rules at Frank's Deli

Fuelled by a love of family-owned New York delis, this new cafe is pulling in the crowds.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Le Lee's must-order sarma (cabbage rolls).

Just like Grandma's back in Macedonia

Family-run Balkan bistro Le Lee dishes up home-style classics from the motherland.

  • Nina Rousseau
Tender sugarloaf cabbage is skewered with guanciale.
14.5/20

Etelek in Potts Point for a good time, not a long time

Etelek has made itself at home, temporarily, in Potts Point.

  • Terry Durack
Advertisement
Hungarian goulash at The Little Hungarian, Caulfield South.

Icon review: The Little Hungarian

Elizabeth Csulka has served her home-style Hungarian food around Melbourne for 35 years.

  • Anna Webster

77

William Street's favourite late-night dance den is back - with an Eastern Euro transformation (and a weapon of a fried chicken sandwich).

  • Callan Boys
Veal schnitzel with braised cabbage.

Redfern Continental

The flavour here is Eastern Europe by way of Redfern Street.

  • Myffy Rigby
Aragvi Georgian Cafe

Aragvi Georgian Cafe

These soup dumplings are good enough to launch a listicle. But they're from Georgia, not Shanghai.

  • Simone Egger
House-made baked beans with marinated feta.

Carolina

This former cobbler shop is still advertising shoes in its window, but is actually a popular organic cafe.

  • Kylie Northover

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/goodfood/topic/eastern-european-lce