The first weekend of July will be marked by major events, aimed mainly at the residents of Bucharest, but which will also attract a large number of tourists from within the country and from abroad.

Before checking out what’s going on in Bucharest, here are some recommendations for getting out and about in the city for a coffee, a delicious brunch, and a special ice cream.

This weekend is worth drinking coffee OTOTO (Victoria 153), a place that combines a cafe with a concept store and that brings together in one place many independent local brands as well as from abroad. You can find products of more than 270 Romanian and international brands in the field of food, specialty coffee, office equipment, cosmetics, etc.

The concept belongs to entrepreneurs Ana Tanasă and Radu Stanciu. The facility, the owners say, is focused mostly on the customer journey, which means the people here will do everything they can to make sure you leave OTOTO happier, calmer, more optimistic, better than when you entered the store.

In addition, delicious bagels from the bakery’s artisans have recently appeared on the OTOTO menu Blitz and roll (Banu Manta 24-26A).

OTOTO PHOTO: Facebook/ OTOTO

Otherwise, if you want to try a pizzeria that recently opened in town, you can do so at Un Poco Pizza Fresca (Frigului 41).

It is located near the Karol I Park and has a pleasant terrace where you can calmly enjoy a pizza made with quality ingredients and brought from your mother at home: San Marzano DOP tomato sauce, slow yeast dough 24-48 hours, Fior di Latte mozzarella brought from Naples and etc.

This is definitely a place that has entered the competition for the best pizza in town.

Beautyfood (Jean Louis Calderon 30) it’s another little place you can trust to pleasantly surprise you when you’re craving a special brunch.

The place has undergone a radical transformation since it was taken over in the midst of the pandemic by new owners, including Rezvan Mangu, who was a sous chef and head chef at several places in Bucharest until he made the move to have his own place.

As he told me another time, Rezvan likes to test, play with flavors and reinvent what can be reinvented. For example, schnitzels have been reinvented and transformed into stunning dishes, and there is also one of the cauliflower pieces.

It also boasts some of the most tender pork chops you’ll ever taste, as they’re braised for 13 hours and served with mashed beans. Followed by ravioli with oxtail or licorice ice cream, and cheesecake with chamomile cream.

But the menu often shifts and changes depending on the inspiration and ingredients Rezwan has put his hand to. So it’s best to check out their Facebook page and call to make a reservation, as this is a “small restaurant” with a few tables.

Beautyfood. PHOTO: Facebook/Beautyfood

The green terrace is even more secluded, although it is located as centrally as possible OAR Garden (Arthur Verona 19). Although it’s a hand-me-down to Verona, the OAR Garden is from another movie. It has a much more intimate atmosphere, it’s not as crowded, you can enjoy peace, more coolness, shade and greenery.

You can find a more special case of gelato at Pleasures (Constantin D. Arichescu 65)because here they are constantly experimenting with new flavors, some of which make you raise your eyebrows because you would never have thought that gelato could taste like this.

“With the ice cream in a cage, which we have been making since 2012, we have also entered the gastronomic competition,” says Adrian Balachi, founder of Delicia Gelato.

But this is not the most “exotic” taste. Delicii also made matcha gelato, parmesan, spinach, mustard, violets, pumpkin and sea buckthorn, linden, tomato and basil, wasabi, chamomile, cinnamon carrots and more.

Another cool thing you’ll find here is the Flavor of Friends ice cream, made by Delicia based on flavors that famous ice cream friends say remind them of summer.

For example, Răzvan Exarhu suggested a cherry sponge cake, while Otrava’s Blog indicated a Snow White cake, Maria Popistașu suggested Amandină, and Andi Moisescu asked for a burnt sugar cream ice cream.

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After a three-year break, the biggest street theater festival in Romania, the Bucharest International Street Theater Festival – B-FIT in the Street! returns to Bucharest between June 30 and July 2, 2023.

This means that the city will turn into a street theater scene with dozens of performances from Spain, France, Italy and the Netherlands.

More than 200 international artists will enliven the streets of Bucharest for three days with dozens of shows for every taste and every age.

The edition’s program includes well-known stories embodied in spectacular street theater productions, aerial acrobatics, live music, meetings with fantastic characters, traveling shows, live installations and water shows.

Every night of the festival B-FIT night shows on the street! #12 will change the landscape of the city with large-scale performances of aerial acrobatics and theater on water.

In addition to the already established locations of the festival – University Square, Centrul Vechi, Calea Victoriei, George Enescu Square and Revolution Square – the river Dambovitsa becomes the arena of the water show for the first time, and the Independence Square hosts a series of mobile shows and a night show.

The detailed program of the festival can be found here.

As it was at the last edition:

Many people will move from Bucharest to NOSTALGIA, which this year will take place in Băneasa Forest, on the territory of the Romanian Sports Shooting Federation, from June 29 to July 2.

NOSTALGIA tries to be a festival of life that presents the past and the future in a special way.

The concept of this festival turned out to be very popular among Romanians, and for NOSTALGIA 2023, the organizers are preparing seven different music zones, unexpected mini-live performances, and other things that will turn NOSTALGIA into a factory of memories.

A subscription for four days costs 400 lei. More information about this edition can be found on the festival website.

See how it was last year:

Among the smaller but equally enticing events (especially for fans of metal and Viking mythology) taking place in the city this weekend is a concert by Swedes Amon Amarth, who also welcome Scotsmen Bleed From Within. .

It will take place on July 1 in the Roman arenas. Tickets cost from 130 to 400 lei.

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to Garden from the cinema (Lahovari 7)on Saturday, July 1, there will be an open screening of the movie “Bullet Train” – a spectacular and funny action movie with Brad Pitt in the lead role.

“The five killers board the same high-speed train that goes between Tokyo and Morioka, with only a few stops. Soon, each of the five realizes that his mission has something in common with the mission of the others. The ticket costs 25 lei.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate is the heaviest of the box office offerings this weekend. Harrison Ford returns in this fifth installment of the franchise after a 15-year hiatus from the role.

“In a new era, as he nears retirement, Indiana Jones struggles to fit into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip again to make sure an ancient and powerful artifact doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.” , he writes in the synopsis.