Luxeat: Vilnius restaurants

I will not understate if i tell that i have been travelling really a lot recently, so luxeat.com has been a little "forgotten". I also spent one week in Vilnius and , being Lithuanian myself, i found interesting to dine out in some of the top Vilnius restaurants and judge them from the food blogger's point of view.

If you stumble upon this post while searching for restaurants in Vilnius, still, the best restaurants are the ones that have been existing since years. Like La Provence , high- end Mediterranean cusine restaurants or "Markus and Co", the oldest steakhouse in Vilnius, steps aways from Stikliai hotel . The steaks in Markus and Co are so good that at one moment i thought i was in a steakhouse in Buenos Aires. I am always facsinated to find such culinary "getaways" in a city that is not really known for being a gastronomic destination.

Two new worth mentioning restaurants opened in Vilnius. The first is Bistro 18,also very close to Stikliai hotel.The owners are an Irish-Lithuanian couple and the cuisine is a mixture of French, Irish and International. The "Irish Guinness stew" was something new for me, the French cassoulet was as hearty how it has to be.

The other -"Marino", the self acclaimed first seafood " restaurant in Vilnius. It is located in a "Vilniaus vartai" shopping center, ten minutes drive from the old town.I was very excited to go there as they had a very mediatized opening. But maybe for that very reason i was disappointed. The biggest disadvantage is that the restaurant is "hanging" above a highway, so, even if the interior is chic and modern, the ambiance reminded me "Auto Grill".I can't really judge the cuisine in Marino as i only had lobster salad which was also very deceiving. (plain salad leaves tossed with few pieces of shredded lobster that was cold and tasteless).
I guess one day i should revisit Marino in the evening , when the highway is hidden in the dark...

The pepper steak in Markus and Co