Hotel Bellevue

Seven, like the house number and the Slovenian expression (Sedem!) for sitting down to eat. In a modern and welcoming setting with an open kitchen, students from the town's tourism and hospitality school take their first steps, supported by experienced and consolidated staff. The result is a gastronomic offering that revisits local dishes, with occasional international influences, which can be chosen freely from the à la carte menu or as part of a tasting menu.

On the outskirts of Maribor, Mak is the eccentric and fiercely individual restaurant of chef-patron David Vračko. The spaces, distributed across two rooms, combine eclectic furnishings with a deliberately understated table setting. Here there is no menu: the chef leads guests through a surprise journey, a kind of culinary performance made up of creative, colourful and at times unconventional dishes. The cuisine, contemporary and original, celebrates local ingredients with great imagination, through unusual textures and bold combinations, for an experience that is lively and outside the ordinar