Zemono Mansion

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The restaurant has been first mentioned in 1897 as a restaurant for carters. At that time the restaurant was led by Mrs. Mici, Katjas grandmother, and her husband Lojze.

Their son Lojze took over the restaurant management together with his wife Valerija who had been attending a monastery cooking school before the Second World War and had to prepare six local meals for her final exam.

This tradition has been successfully turned over to her daughter Katja Kavčič. Over the next 10 years Katja nourished Vipavas cuisine and raised it to the highest level of Slovenia's restaurants.

 

Everybody who ate in the restaurant based in the village of  Dornberg became enamoured of the gastronomy delights and wine served there. But besides the harmonic and sophisticated flavours of Vipava,  Katja added something unique to the meals: her soul.

 

The baton was passed to Tomaž Kavčič from his mother and together with Marko Bolčina they have been cooperating for nearly 11 years. Tomaž is a poet of flavours, cooking technologies and uses the best ingredients. Along with his immense knowledge he never forgets the traditional Vipavska dolina that is always present in his cooking. Tomaž, his friends call him Tomi, also adds to his meals something he inherited from his mother and grandmother: the soul.

 

The restaurant "Pri Lojzetu" has been for the last decade situated in Zemono Manor House and  offers unique cuisine. Listing the various meals on offer would not make any sense. Tomi picks only the freshest  seasonal ingredients and cooks with a purity of flavours that is sublime. His Preparation techniques vary from entirely simple and traditional to molecular and completely original. A restaurant which you just have to visit to see for yourselves.