Restaurant Brancovenesc - Câmpulung

A friendly restaurant in an old house with a nice terrace in the city center. Very tasty food and huge portions ( 3 steak slices, 2 pancakes, 2 papanasi - traditional donuts) friendly people. I highly recommend this restaurant.

The portions are huge. Please consider it before placing your order. Moreover, not having papanasi (desert) is another thing you'd be sorry for.

After spending a weekend in the mountains at Cuca cabin, we went on our way home with a hunger for good Romanian food. Campulung (Arges county) has many nice views to offer, but not so much regarding open restaurants on a Sunday afternoon. I frantically Googled places and all we could find were closed down restaurants. Finally, we took a turn in some street away from the center, just to find this place: Restaurant Brancovenesc. Located in a regular house, filled with regulars who were having Sunday lunch, this eatery offerred us a lot more than expected. Nice, clean table cloths, decent radio and food you cannot forget. We ordered fries with eggs and cheese and the guys had some pork. Everything was delicious and HUGE. Be careful about ordering any double portions. One of us did and it was clearly too much. Small towns in Romania offer generous food for decent prices and you must remember this whenever you go out of the big cities. Unfortunately, we were too hungry to take pictures with food, while we ate. So I can only show what was left of my dessert (papanasi). The personnel really pays attention to clients and can provide take away in case you exaggerate as I did. If you end up in Campulung not knowing where you want to eat, I strongly recommend Restaurant Brancovenesc for a very satisfactory stop. It surely deserves a review here, as it is one of those gems only locals know about. Now, that I have shared their secret, go and enjoy some authentic Romanian food!

Excellent dinner @ Brancovenesc. Traditional romanian food in Campulung, on the way from Pitesti to Brasov. Great place to stop by and taste local food.