A restaurant and guesthouse in Viscri, at number 32
We cook in the White Barn with what producers bring us from within 75 kilometres. You sleep in the Blue House, built in 1912, or in the New Barn. Five rooms in all.
As featured in
2019 · one of the country’s 6 special destinations
2024 · one of 14 guesthouses in the book “Pensiuni din Transilvania”
2019 · “Afaceri de la zero” (Business from Scratch), a 31-minute film about us
2022 · “Veneticii” (The Newcomers), on Alexu Toader
The White Barn restaurant
Since July 2017 we have been cooking Transylvanian food from Mara’s family recipe book. The menu is short and changes every day, with whatever the producers bring. In 2019 Gault&Millau Romania named us one of its 6 special destinations in the country.
Today’s menu · About the restaurant
Five rooms
Two in the Blue House, built in 1912 by Johann Dootz. Three in the New Barn, from 1869. Each room has its own bathroom, and breakfast is included. On Booking.com we score 9.4, from 164 reviews (read in September 2026).
The house’s best room, with Johann’s signature carved in the beam
With the armuroi, a painted Saxon wall chest
In the attic, with a window onto a two-hundred-year-old walnut tree
The only one facing the White Barn and the sunset
On the ground floor, looking onto the garden
What guests say
9.4 / 10 · 164 reviews
4.4 / 5 · 2,194 reviews
4.2 / 5 · 203 reviews
Read in September 2026.
The village asked us for a restaurant
We bought the house in January 2016; nobody had lived in it for twenty years. When we arrived, the village invited us to a meal and told us what it was missing: a restaurant, and work for the village women. Our team has been from the village ever since.
Our story · How we restored the house
Viscri
A Saxon village in southern Transylvania, on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1999. We live at number 32, in the middle of the village, with the fortified church on the hill behind our orchard.
In the evening, the cows walk home from the pasture on their own, and each one turns in at its own gate. The day visitors have gone, and the village belongs to those who stayed.
Why Viscri? Fifteen seconds of it, on Facebook.
Out of season too
In winter, when the restaurant opens less often, we host fine dining evenings. Through the year, Transylvanian wine tastings and cooking sessions with guest chefs.