Gostilna As — Restaurant in Upravna Enota Ljubljana

We booked a table for two at this Gostilna AS restaurant which is in a dead end street near the river in Lubljana. The restaurant owner greets us, sits us down, and a waiter immediately places a bottle of still and sparkling water on the table. The boss asks us if we want to eat meat or fish (like in an airplane). We let him show our astonishment. He explains to us that the meal takes place in three or four courses and that for our information the meal costs 60 € per person. We explain to him that we do not want to eat so much in the evening and that we would like to see the menu. He tells us he doesn't have a printed card and asks one of the waitresses to explain the menu to us. We choose two dishes each out of the menu choices and ask if it is possible to have a wine by the glass. The starters were charged € 25 euros each for three small bites of fish and two slices of duck carpaccio. For the main course, we ate an excellent back of sea bass at € 24 and a salmon salad at € 16. Two glasses of wine were served. The restaurateur charged three glasses of wine. We have had the invoice corrected.

In conclusion we ate well, but left this restaurant with the painful feeling of lack of respect for the customer: The restaurateur tries to impose a menu without any transparency on its content and price. We realized that at other tables some customers (Slovenians?) only ate one dish. The quality of the products is good, but the food is nothing exceptional to justify the price of the meal. We ordered a wine by the glass (2) but the waiter leaves the bottle on the table and then charges 3 glasses of wine.

We will never go back to this restaurant and do not recommend it. There are enough serious restaurateurs who respect their customers in Lubliana to...

Beautiful terrace, average food, staff overloaded providing poor service, low quality/high price.

We were offered a sit for 2 on the terrace above (which has a separate menu,i.e. more expensive) though we had no reservation so we were lucky. We ordered meat menu €45 and seafood menu €49. From price perspective this is THE high end of Ljubljana menu pricing.

Some pros: Excellent panoramic view, even castle tower is slightly visible. The waitress at least tried to speak French. I appreciated it:-) 3rd dish (main course) roast beef was simple though delicious. and 4th dessert soufflé au chocolat was savoury.

Cons: I asked to slightly modify Starter(beef carpaccio+truffle sauce) and change raw meat with anything else but keep the rest(truffles) so i got only ham on plate but no truffles, and i was told that's the way it goes there. 2nd dish Pasta+beef was trivial & dull The waiter forgot we exist (for about 1 hour) and main course didn't arrive, so waitress jumped directly to dessert untill she was kindly reminded by us. Main entertainment was the owner bossing around waiters loudly practically in front of customers and waiters are more or less running. Literally. We got a cover charge of 2.5€/person (???) - that doesn't exist in Slovenia. Initial bill of 137€ was wrong (3 btls water intead of two, 1 non existing dish, and menus were stripped down to individual dishes) and when prompted the waiter brought down the bill to 117€ (incld 3 glasses of wine, exactly 0,1L per glass). Poor Price/quality. When i reminded my spouse we paid almost same for the another resto up there in the castle (see my other reviews) she almost fell off her chair, quality is incomparable. STRELEC is heaven comparing...

We had a reservation for 7PM. When we got there we had to wait for more than 5min for an arrogant waitress to come and find the reservation. We finnaly got a table and a water. In the next 30 minutes we weren't offered any aperitive nor they asked for a wine. We only got a kitchen's greetings in form of an average bakala and thick slice of tomato with some black olives sprinkled on and 2 drops of subaverage pesto. We we were finnaly offered a wine we requested 2 different bottles (both Slovenian, one a bit more exotic and another one which they have in all restaurants of the same price range). They didn't have any of them. We weren't offered a wine list - the waiter suggested two different bottles. We picked one of them - it was awful. It tasted like 3-5€ bottle from Spar. Cold appetizer was without any real taste. For warm appetizer I had a pasta with deer ragu which was tasteless and chewy. The main dish was purely awful. Beef tagliata - no taste, no side dish (in a degustation menu!), chewy (really bad piece of meat). For the grande finale - 160€. 2 menus (3 courses), one bottle of awful white wine, 2 bottles of water. It's a turist trap very far from its previous glory. To sum up...