Restaurant of the month - Le Baron Salad Saloon Restauran
February 1st, 200813/1/08, by Richard Payne
I had a wonderful festive Xmas and New Year with my friend in Sofia, Varna and my family in UK, which consequently lead to too many festive dinners, Xmas pudding and chocolates. With this behind us, it is time for a dreaded diet session.
On the last day in Sofia I had a meal in a restaurant with my good friend. He refused to believe I can diet to a target weight, so I wrote it down on a 50 Lev note and gave it to him. If I fail to achieve the target weight before next Xmas, he can keep it. This meant I had to keep away from nice restaurants around Varna until I discovered the Le Bacon Restaurant.
Le Bacon Salad Saloon is a new restaurant, recently opened, just before Xmas. As the picture shows: a stylish modern restaurant with comfortable atmosphere and large window facing. It is behind the blue tourist information office on a street which you can’t miss because it has a very attractive red light show outside.
While the menu is in Bulgarian, it offers a very wide selection of salads (about 40 of them) at a reasonable price. It includes pizza and pasta as well. My good friend ordered a pizza while I ordered a custom salad (chicken, bacon, cheese, etc). Taking a great care of my diet, I tried out his pizza slice and yum! yum!…it was most excellent! I was generally surprised how much I enjoyed the well presented fresh salad dish. The menu offers choices of roughly 50 different add-on bits which makes up custom salads of your desire. The wine and drink selection is comprehensive. I had a discussion with the restaurant’s friendly supervisor who promised to provide English menus in a few weeks time.
If you’re bored with the Happy restaurants or other fast food chains, I would certainly recommend this place as it offers much more choices. They’re of good value due to a balanced combination of presentation, price and low energy healthy food, which gives your diet a better chance to succeed!
Rating 9/10
