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KVARNER
Gourmet
Food
Dear reader!
The brochure you are reading right
now is one of the ways in which we
are finalizing the Kvarner Gourmet
and Kvarner Food project. The
project was started this year by the
Kvarner Regional TourismOffice.
With their invitation to the
competition, for which criteria that
stimulated excellence in two gastro
segments were outlined, Kvarner
Regional TourismOffice wanted
to take the first step in branding
the Kvarner as a wine and gastro
destination, which, judging by the
response and that which follows in
this brochure they seemed to have
achieved successfully.
Kvarner, a wine and
gastro destination
67 restaurants responded to the
competition, the commission
marked their offer, thus this
brochure is the result of the
commission’s work. For the
Kvarner Gourmet category, it was
necessary to fulfill all the necessary
requirements. For the Kvarner Food
category it was necessary to obtain
a minimum of 75 points from a
maximum of 100 points.
The restaurants that fell into the
Gourmet category (10 of them) are
briefly described, while those that
fell into the Food segment are listed
in terms of points, from 75 to 100.
The Kvarner, as a geographical,
cultural, social, and historical
region, includes the cities of
Opatija and Rijeka and their
greater vicinities, Gorski Kotar, the
coastal area and the hinterland of
the towns of Crikvenica and Novi
Vinodolski, along with the Island of
Krk, Cres, Rab and Mali Losinj.
Since the end of the 19
th
century
when the intense development
of this region began in terms of
a“modern” tourist destination,
primarily as a health resort, the
gastro offer represented the best
part of the overall tourist offer.
The region where the
Mediterranean and the continental
Alpine climates meet has a large
influence on the ingredients
and produce that are typical
for these individual parts of the
Kvarner. Gorski Kotar has various
berries, mushrooms, game, fruit
and vegetables, freshwater fish,
frogs, etc., while the coastal and
Island regions have produce of
a Mediterranean nature: fish,
crabs (Kvarner shrimp), shellfish,
mollusks, Mediterranean herbs
(sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano,
laurel, capers, dill, asparagus, etc.),
vegetables (Brassica oleracea - an
indigenous cabbage sort, beans
from Lopar, baby kale, garlic
flowers, tomatoes fromVrbnik,
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Kvarner gastro destination
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