Roata, in a vaulted cellar off Strada Memorandumului, is a long-running Transylvanian restaurant with a menu of cabbage rolls, smoked meats, polenta, and home-baked bread. The atmosphere is rustic in the genuine sense — long wooden tables, old folk costumes on the walls — and the food is reliably good.
This is the place to introduce a guest to Transylvanian cuisine: order a mixed-meat platter and the cheese-stuffed polenta, drink Romanian țuică, and stay for the rest of the evening. A welcome traditional anchor in an increasingly modern dining scene.