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Meals and Dining

Our delicious traditional Romanian and Hungarian

home made meals are served family style every day 

All of our 3 and 4 course meals are prepared on-site using locally sourced ingredients and fruits and vegetables grown in our organic fields

 

Our delicious traditional meals reflect the different ethnicities of Transylvania: Romanian, Hungarian, Gypsy and Saxon

  • Only the freshest and best ingredients

  • Home grown and ground Szegedy paprika

  • Guests are invited to learn and help in the kitchen

  • Meals are paired with home made or local wines

  • All meals are in our outdoor terrace

  • Dinners are an especially delightful culinary and cultural experience 

  • There's a BBQ area, an outdoor bread oven, and an outdoor fireplace 

  • Our dinners are on a set menu schedule (sorry, no a la carte food options)

Gulyas in a couldren Transylvania style
Traditional Dishes

We pride ourselves in preparing and serving delicious traditional Romanian and Hungarian meals.

  • Fresh and locally sourced ingredients in all of our seasonal dishes

  • Traditional Szegedy paprika with real authentic flavor is used in all our dishes 

  • Select excellent home made and local wines to engage all of your senses

Making plum ball dessert in Transylvania
Our Menu Items

Every day is a culinary delight!  Our delicious homemade dishes are both traditional favorites and local daily staples.  

  • Chicken paprikas

  • Stuffed cabbage or peppers

  • Gulyas

  • Mici BBQ

  • Palacsinta, home made bread, fresh churned butter, pickled peppers, zacusca, māmāligā, vânātā, and so much more!

Easter brunch in Transylvania
Breakfasts

Our breakfasts always include kolbasz (sausages) and cheeses from Szekelyland, as well as:

  • Freshly picked tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers from our fields

  • An accompanying specialty dish to complement this traditional meal    

  • Our coffee is excellent

  • We also have home made teas and juices available

Apple walnut strudel Transylvania style
Lunches

Traditionally the biggest meal of the day, we revise it to be a regular sized meal, concentrating on lesser known, but just a delicious local cuisine or family recipes carried down through the centuries. 

  • Roasted duck with potatoes and peppers

  • Cauliflower with meat & cheese

  • Pork with roasted apples

  • Schnitzel with the best french fries you've ever tasted!

  • Delicious soups

  • Much more!

Candle lit dinner in Transylvania
Dinners

Our dinners are quite an affair!

  • Elegant, candle lit tables

  • Authentic Hungarian or Romanian meal (see "Menu Items" above)

  • Home made or local wines and liquors

  • Delectable dessert

  • Engaging conversations with your fellow guests

  • Guest speaker(s), or Basa family members, join us for dinner, regaling us with stories and experiences. 

Roses on a table
After Dinner Activities

A true guest favorite!  Always educational, stimulating & interactive.  A different subject every night:

  • History of Transylvania (both the Hungarian and Romanian versions - very unusual to hear both sides at once)

  • Importance of religion in Transylvania

  • First hand experiences living through communism

  • A glimpse into Roma culture

  • Lesson in Hungarian and Romanian dance.   

"Egészségedre" means "cheers" in Hungarian!

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