The best fish are in the east Published 09/06/2022

The best fish are in the east

Although lovers of jargon and the fairer sex will think that this statement aims in that direction, we in Slavonia and Baranja are not quite so rude. It goes without saying that our ladies are beautiful. It is enough to walk along one of the sun-drenched promenades of the local towns and your eye will inevitably be caught by... the elegant classicist and art nouveau architecture of Osijek, its lawns and the splendor of the most beautiful river promenade in Croatia. For the slender lines of Đakovo town streets and its majesty the cathedral. For the fullness and playfulness of the parks in Valpovo and Našice.

Jump to the village of Slavonia-Baranja (it's always there somewhere). What beauty awaits you here! Inspired by tradition, ready for action (bike, run, row, ride!), cheerful and skilled with cooking - that's the Pannonian village idyll! Upon meeting her, many imagine meeting a goldfish in which they wish for only one thing - that the village of Slavonia and Baranje turn into a person (maybe even two) who will then...

Let's finish with fantasies! We don't have goldfish though. But we have fish - for which we are writing all this - and in countless ways. Our large rivers and numerous lakes present us with continental fish delicacies that will make you forget about the sea: simmering fish (e.g. at the gates of Baranje in the čarda "Kod Baranjca"), crispy catfish steaks, perch fillets or, blessed among fish, frogs branches (direction "Ribnjak" in Našice, distant "Stari Mlin", "Kovač čarda" in Suza, "Darócz" and "Citadela" in Vardarac...); trellises of carp on forks or pike in uniform (the leitmotif of "Fisherman's Days" in Kopačevo); light fish soups and risottos, irresistible pâtés, and even fish chips (find a hipster-fish gastro-expression in, for example, "Josić" from Zmajevac, "Čingi-linga" čarda, "Baranjska kuća", "Dida's Konak" from Kopačevo, restaurant of the hotel "Lug"...)

In short, even the culinary baksuz vulgaris can shake out a whole tray of Slavonian-Baranja fish delicacies. When you let them swim in the waters of our selected Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Traminac, and even Graševina, you will realize that there are no ambiguities, allusions and doubts - the best fish are truly in the East


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