The Chefs of The View Restaurant won the culinary competition organized by MERTO for creating a gourmet menu with Bulgarian pink village tomatoes and sheep yellow cheese. The event coincided with The Day of the Entrepreneur. They won with the main dish, which was Sautéed octopus over spelled, shrimp bisque, Bulgarian pink tomatoes, puree from artichokes, lime, dehydrated olives and cress and the dessert, which was Butter tart, zabaione cream with Bulgarian sheep cheese, tomato jam and fresh raspberries. The full article (in Bulgarian) is available here: https://www.economic.bg/bg/news/10/gotvachite-na-restorant-the-view-specheliha-konkursa-na-metro.html

The blog Mums First Diary ranked The View among one of the best places in Sofia to try Aperol. With the beginning of Fall the summer cocktail is still admired and preferred, and the tastes of the summer will not disappear from The View’s menu so soon.

“I definitely reached a high level – literally and figuratively, and to be precise – at the 24^th level with amazing views over Sofia. The cocktail was rich and perfectly done. And in pleasant company with unique views that The View restaurant offers, after the first one the desire for another one comes quickly,” said Barbara Peychonova, author of the blog. The whole article could be found here: http://www.mumsfirstdiary.com/2018/09/blog-post.html

The editor in BNR Radio Sofia Petya Zungorlieva and her team had a live show at The View. Nikolay Koev, organizer of Sofia Restaurant Week, joined the interview. He said that almost 5 000 people made reservations within the festival. Over 300 of them chose The View to try the two menus that were especially created.

Stefan Stoev, sous chef at The View, answered questions such as what is essential to have in a kitchen and what inspired the creation of the recipes of the two festival menus. “The starter of the first menu is Verine. From French this means a dish in a glass, but the recipe we used is Italian. This combination of tastes and European recipes reflects what we usually prepare here at The View,”  he said. “The several “floors” of the dish is making a reference to the high floors that the restaurant is situated in, as it is the restaurant in the highest location in the country,” he added. You can hear (on Bulgarian) the whole interview here, and we are expecting to also see a video!

In the end of the Restaurant Week in Sofia, hurry to taste the dishes that, as the media outlet View Sofia said “came out of the kitchen with breathtaking views over Sofia.” The View is one of the participating restaurants in the festival, but as Divino wrote, what makes it unique and standing out among other participants is the interesting location and the modern cuisine. Check out the full articles and lots of photos here https://www.viewsofia.com/article/42082/more/Otkriyte-vkusovete-na-Sofiyasas-#more and  http://www.divino.bg/statii/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE-%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5-%D0%BD%D0%B0-sofia-restaurant-week, and for making a reservation within the festival, visit http://restaurantweek.bg/bg/restaurant/The_View_restaurant/4115/

In the day of the official start of Sofia Restaurant Week at the culinary Metro Academy in Sofia, chefa from the participating restaurants competed in different categories. The culinary delights by Chef Kaloyan Dobrev and sous-chef Stefan Stoev won the big award by METRO Bulgaria for the most original dish with Bulgarian pink tomato and farmers yellow cheese. The View’s team won the most points because of the dishes they made, which are really difficult to prepare.

The main dish they was Sautéed octopus over spelled, shrimp bisque, Bulgarian pink tomatoes, puree from artichokes, lime, dehydrated olives and cress. The dessert was Butter tart, zabaione cream with Bulgarian sheep cheese, tomato jam and fresh raspberries. The unique presentation of the dishes provoked the interest of the media and the photographers who participated in the opening ceremony of this year’s festival.

Between September 16th and 22nd The View will welcome over 200 guests, who will taste the two special menus, created by Chef Dobrev.

The View is among the restaurants, participating in Sofia Restaurant Week. Between September 16th and 22nd over 8000 people from Sofia or guests of the capital city are expected to visit the festival. Reservations at The View, with mind-blowing views over the city and modern european cuisine, are accepted now. More detailed information (in Bulgarian) could be found in the article by Tvoiat Biznes https://www.tbmagazine.net/statia/sofia-restaurant-week-startira-registraciite-za-svoeto-peto-izdanie-prez-septemvri.html, and (in English) on the official website of SRW http://restaurantweek.bg/restaurant/The_View_restaurant/4115/

For the view that must be seen, for the familiar faces at the restaurant, as well as why The View is said to be a “heaven’s place in the sky”. A drone named Drony talks about all of that in the new article by Sofia Live.

To see how they say The View from even higher up, check out https://www.sofialive.bg/menu/estestven-podbor/132-the-view-restaurant-gledka-ot-oste-po-visoko.html

Two of the Augeo Family Estate wines won medals at China Wine and Spirits Awards ‎‎2018. Augeo Rose 2017 won a gold medal and Augeo Sauvignon Blanc 2017 conquered a silver medal. The wines of Augeo Family Estate are the only Bulgarian ones to win medals in this year’s edition.

The gold medalist Augeo Family Estate Rose 2017 is a blend between the typical Bulgarian grape variety Shiroka Melnishka with Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah. The wine is fresh with fruity and flower aromas and has medium body. The silver medal winner Augeo Family Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2017 is tenderly and fresh wine has pale yellow color made in European style.

The Augeo Family Estate wines are medalists from wine challenges in three continents. Earlier this year Augeo Family Estate Melnik 55 2016 added a double gold medal again from China to its medal from England from November last year, and Augeo Family Estate Exquisite Rose 2017 won gold in Canada.

All of the Augeo Family Estate wines are being sold at The View Restaurant Sofia!

When 20 years ago he moved to the United States, the taste of homemade food was one of the things Svetlin Radoslavov – Svet missed the most. He talks about the challenges he faced together with his family when  they started living in the states, and also about his successful career so far. The full reportage by Petya Kertikova, filmed at The View, is available (in Bulgarian) here: https://www.bgonair.bg/sutreshen-blok/2018-08-23/za-zhivota-otvad-okeana-razkazva-tsigularyat-svetlin-radoslavov-svet

The View will be one of the 25 selected restaurants, participating in Sofia Restaurant Week. From September 16^th until September 22^nd the guests of the restaurant will be able to taste one of two three course menus, especially created for this event. One of them will be vegetarian and the other, with meat. For the moment we could only reveal the delicious deserts, which are Double chocolade brownie whit cream cheese and grapes ‎reduction‎, and Coconut chia pudding, kiwi, figs and kaffir lime rocher. The rest of the dishes could be found on our profile on the website of Sofia Restaurant Week http://restaurantweek.bg/bg/restaurant/The_View_restaurant/4115/