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Kukuriku

Top choice in Kvarner


At slow-food pioneer Nenad Kukurin's wonderful hotel-restaurant there's no menu, so you need to be prepared to place your trust in the staff. Tell them whether you prefer meat, fish or vegetarian, and whether you have any particular dislikes or dietary requirements (or budget constraints). Then prepare for course after course of delicious, beautifully presented, innovative, local cuisine.

To top it all off, there are 15 extremely chic rooms here – handy if you're planning to partake in the recommended matches from the excellent wine list. And if you're wondering about the rooster-themed paraphernalia scattered about, kukuriku is the Croatian take on 'cock-a-doodle-doo'.


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