HleBar — Restaurant in Sofia City

It was a favorite place for years, but it seems success has blinded the people from HleBar. Yes, it is in an expensive neighborhood and it’s a trendy bakery, with wealthy customers, but the quality is going down, while the prices are getting outrageous. Just bought an Easter bread (kozunak), ordered it the day before as it was high on demand. Didn’t look at the price tag. Expected it to be expensive, but I got stumbled - it was BGN 19 for half a kilo! Well, what the heck, I thought, it must be something special and it’s a special occasion - so why not. It was disaster - forget the price, the whole thing, the texture and mainly the taste has little to do with kozunak. (And yes, I am aware there are varieties and taste could be subjective.) So, if I may: to those reading this - don’t buy kozunak from this bakery. The rest of the things are OK, but don’t buy kozunak here. to people from HleBar - go to a village in the country, find a grandma and ask her to teach you how to make kozunak. Anyway, wish you all the best and hope you will not learn business lessons the hard way. As someone mentioned earlier: If you charge premium you should...

Clean food. I would say that the bakery is striving to provide quality. They use olive oils instead of vegetable oils and sell a small range of clean high quality products including fermented cod oil and marine collagen supplements, a selection of meat and dairy products, etc. I have a sensitive digestion which reacts to rancid oils and I have never had problems there. I hope they maintain this quality because my experience in Bulgaria that most places are not consistent in the quality of food they offer. The bakery is not cheap but their cooked meals are big portions and quite fairly priced. I find some desserts (not all) a bit too sweet but that is also a matter of taste. I would...

Not great. Service is poor and uninterested. In the afternoon, I ordered a banitsa and got the one that's on display next to the cash desk. Probably the last one. It had been there for who knows how long and was obviously not fresh. It was microwaved and didn't taste well either and my stomach was a little upset from the 'delicacy'.

Gave it another try sometime and got the soup with bread for lunch. Soup was unremarkable, same for the bread which tasted stale. Besides, it's noisy, seating is very uncomfortable no matter where you sit. Better go to a sit-down restaurant, prices are the same. This place is still stuck in the hipster era and charges an arm and a leg for image and very...