Balkanika Restaurant

Very quiet and pleasant atmosphere, food was on point, traditional and authentic Bulgarian cuisine, deliciously and more importantly quickly prepared! The bartender server was excellent, very courteous and accommodating. The menu is more than reasonably priced, and definitely would be coming back next time we visit Chicago! Thank you for a great service and food!

I honestly can’t say I’ve ever had food as horrible as this. We ordered two pizza that were both over cooked and tasted like cardboard. There was also so much oil and barely any sauce on the pizza. Honestly, the frozen Walmart pizzas were better than this trash. Definitely will never be back and don’t recommend anyone to waste their time and money by going here.

They don’t know anything about the costumer service! Stay away if you are not a Bulgarian. We went there around 5 pm without reservations and asked if we could sit on the patio. The answer was yes so we went there and took a sit. Waitress kept passing by us as if we didn’t exist, eventually my husband went to her and asked if she’d take orders. She said okay and went inside and came back 10 minutes later and asked us to leave because they couldn’t serve the patio anymore due to chances of rain!!! I mean seriously??? First of all we first checked with the hosts and they said we could sit at the patio. Also we sat there waiting for someone to care enough to take orders for almost half an hour- all while they were serving two other tables on the patio who apparently spoke their language the entire time and were checking on them every 10 minutes! And finally, it didn’t rain until about 1-1.5 hours later! So, rain was just a lame excuse Here’s our takeaway: SPEAK BULGARIAN or walk away!