"De honesta voluptate et valetudine«- on true pleasure and good health, or even better "true pleasure is good health". In 1467, the philosopher Bartolomeo Platina gave this title to his treatise on healthy food. He quoted Maestro Martino de Rossi, who was chef to the fifteenth century Patriarch of Aquileia and the Soča region, and hence had links to Slovenia, Ludovico Trevisano.

So the people of the Soča Valley have known about and enjoyed good food for a very long time.

The traditions have passed from generation to generation, in written form and orally.

Today every housewife knows how to prepare the famous local dessert "kobariški štruklji" (a delicious dessert made from dough stuffed with walnuts, raisins and such like), to which the culinary grandees of the town even dedicate a festival.

Yet, beware, history and tradition do not reign absolutely, for every štrukelj is different. And diversity is indeed a special feature of the restaurants of Kobarid, eateries that feature great variety yet with enough in common to have created the intriguing, enticing

KOBARID GASTRONOMIC CIRCLE.

The circle has no beginning and no end.
There is no champion, no winner; the circle remains ...

The brochure about Kobarid gastronomic circle.