Bledar Kola, the chef-owner, trained at Noma in Copenhagen before opening Mullixhiu on the edge of the Grand Park in 2016. It is the most ambitious restaurant in Tirana — a serious tasting-menu kitchen built entirely from Albanian mountain ingredients: wild herbs, grains from small upland farms, sheep's cheese, foraged greens.
The room is calm, the service is precise, and the menu changes with the season. Considerably more expensive than other Tirana restaurants but still cheap by European fine-dining standards. Reserve well ahead.