{"id":37085,"date":"2020-06-03T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/?p=37085"},"modified":"2020-06-04T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T09:36:40","slug":"winners-of-the-slovenia-restaurant-awards-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/gastronomy\/restaurant-awards\/winners-of-the-slovenia-restaurant-awards-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of The Slovenia Restaurant Awards 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Slovenia Restaurant Awards: a national selection of the best Slovenian restaurants with as many as 34,150 votes in 2020<\/strong>
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You still don’t know which are the best restaurants in Slovenia this year? Then we offer you the answer created by the international publishing house The Slovenia for the fourth year in a row with the joint votes of the gastronomic academy and media readers. We also have to appreciate our own cuisine before we leave it to foreigners. Let’s look through the chronological development of the key national selection of the best restaurants in our country, which only includes key professional associations, the media and also the public.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>

Did you miss the live event? Watch The Slovenia Restaurant Awards 2020 here. <\/a><\/strong><\/h2>

Year 2017 – The birth of  The Slovenia Restaurant Awards <\/strong>
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Slovenia has recently been transformed into an important and above all esteemed green destination, full of culinary experiences. Visitors appreciate Slovenia and love to return, not only because of the exceptional diversity and natural beauty, but also because of the rich and selected offer of food and drink. Diverse and innovative dishes, quality ingredients, top quality wines and friendly service are the virtues of Slovenian restaurants.<\/p>

World selections for the best restaurants have been around for a long time and all culinary developed countries have their own national selection, which was not the case for Slovenia. However, since 2017, we can also boast of our national and independent selection of The Slovenia Restaurant Awards (TSRA), whose founding father Niko Slavni\u010d <\/strong>has prepared an innovative approach to judging, where everyone can have their own opinion.<\/p>

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Vision of the TSRA Selection<\/strong>
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The international recognition of Slovenia as a gastronomic tourist destination, ensuring a high quality of offer and services, increasing visits to restaurants and the development of a healthy “foodie culture” of Slovenes, is the guiding principle and essence of the project.<\/em>
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With many years of experience in the field of international tourist literature, we want to contribute an independent and professional selection in Slovenia with a range of restaurants, which is multifaceted and intended for a wider audience, domestic and foreign visitors. We decided on the selection according to the needs of the market, as we are aware that enogastronomic tourism is becoming the fastest growing tourism industry in the world.
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Expert commission and voting criteria – 140 restaurants<\/strong>
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We invited both the professional and amateur public to the selection, and together we obtained all-Slovenian and regional top lists of the best restaurants – the best that Slovenian cuisine has to offer.<\/p>

An expert commission consisting of Mag. Helena Cvikl, Mira \u0160emi\u0107 (wine connoisseur, gourmet and world enogastronomic traveler), dr. Janez Bogataj (Honorary Professor and Doctor of Ethnological Sciences), doc. dr. Ale\u0161 Ga\u010dnik (Head of the Department of Cultural Tourism and Cultural Heritage at Turistica and Head of the Center for Gastronomy and Wine Culture of the University of Primorska) and Yuri Barron (editor of Slovenian editions of tourist guides In Your Pocket and editor and main author of The Slovenia Book – Top 100 Destinations ) is<\/p>

had only one guide in evaluating restaurants; it was not the price of the food, the size of the restaurant, or the accessibility of the location, but the overall satisfaction with the visit. In the first year, the commission prepared a set of 140 restaurants<\/p>

Members of the expert commission selected a set of restaurants on the following basis<\/strong><\/p>

  1. Criteria:<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>