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Dining Like a Local: The Best Family-Owned Restaurants and Taverns

"In the heart of Zagreb, this highly regarded spot channels chef Hrvoje Kroflin’s modern sensibility and close collaboration with small national producers, often reimagining long-forgotten Croatian dishes. The kitchen spans seafood and meat with an emphasis on grilled premium cuts, offered via two tasting menus (5 and 8 courses) as well as a rather extensive menu. Dishes can include a shrimp and crab salad with miso cream scented with toasted almonds, salicornia, and buckwheat and seaweed pops; wild hake with buttermilk, basil oil, kohlrabi, and sorrel; and an iconic grilled lamb loin with fermented black rice, vegetable demi-glace, and grilled green beans." - Sarah Scaparone