What is that gives the essential feature of a town? What is that makes
a capital a unique place, a symbol of its country and engine for cultural
development? Where can be found the traces of the ones who contributed
to defining human character? Where can be found the values of an urban
concentration? We often tend to say that the answer is just one: at
the museums. But do not forget that there are also theatres, statues,
streets with old names and … restaurants.
It is difficult today to find in Bucharest authentic traces of its “glory” period,
when everything was new and everything was built in a magnificent manner.
Museums have often a much too didactical style, theatres have more
and more an inclination towards the daily controversies, and statues… well
statues wait in parks and squares for someone to rediscover their fascinating
stories.
In order to rediscover the values of another epoch, almost lost, you
have to try somehow to live those times again. Rossetya, the newest
restaurant in town, placed in the historical centre of Bucharest, invites
you to discover the refinement of the Romanian old nobles’ houses
by tasting our dishes made using recipes tested and carefully kept
along the last 150 years.
Rossetya is not just a place where you can eat to one’s heart’s
content and at reasonable costs – it’s a journey to the
romantic and elegant Bucharest after the 1850’s. The XIXth century
is the time when Romanian people were driven by the enthusiasm of making
Romania an important country on the map of Europe.
There is no other time in history when Bucharest knew such economic
and cultural development, architectural transformation and change in
habits. The sons of wealthy Walach and Moldavian noblemen, finishing
their studies in Paris or Vienna, were coming back to take part to
the Revolution of 1848.They are the ones who also contributed to the
development of the Romanian literature, politics and history for an
entire century. The oriental collars were replaced by the French top-hats
and German-style walking sticks. In the houses of the noblemen from
Bucharest, (where the union between Moldavia and Walachia was enthusiastically
sustained), were organized magnificent balls, where waltzes and polkas
were danced and where beautiful young ladies wore their elegant crinolines… But
on their tables mamaliga (polenta) and sarmale (cabbage rolls with
meat) always came first, together with other Romanian traditional dishes:
eggplant salad, golden fried-piglet, tripe soup, sirloin beef or Dobrudgea
stew.
Rossetya restaurant brings back to life the values of those times,
offering authentic old recipes and delicious desserts, an intimate
atmosphere and refined music. Even more, Rossetya’s name is written
using the calligraphic style of the XIXth century, when renowned families
used the so called “a la francaise” writing style to break
from the chain of the Cyrillic alphabet showing once more their Latin
roots.