Lumen Craft Gastro
Chef-driven gastrobar with tasting menu and craft cocktails
5-7 course tasting menu + craft cocktails with infusions + 80+ Moldovan wines
Worth it if you want to try contemporary Moldovan chef's cuisine: a tasting menu, infused craft cocktails and 80+ Moldovan wines, on the Eugen Doga pedestrian street.
Lumen Craft Gastro is one of the most serious gastro projects opened in Chișinău in recent years - a 30-seat gastrobar on Dacia Pedestrian street, open kitchen at the bar (you can watch the chef cook), 5-7 course tasting menu (~700 lei) focused on Moldovan ingredients with modern technique. Signatures: deer tartare with horseradish emulsion and toasted bread, smoked salmon with trout roe, ravioli with Saharna cheese and butternut squash, 12h sous-vide lamb with Fetească Neagră reduction, cheesecake with smoked Bardar plums. Craft cocktails with house infusions (sea buckthorn, mint, lavender, sour cherry) and 80+ Moldovan wines curated by a sommelier.
- inventive cooking
- excellent cocktails
- an exceptional wine selection
- Juicy beefsteak with golden poached egg on an industrial platter
- Steaming pulled-pork burger next to a craft beer mug
- Airy industrial interior on Dacia, casual all-day-dining vibe
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“Just had an incredible dining experience at Lumen Craft Gastro. The interior was cozy, the service was top notch and food was very fresh and tasteful.”
“We get in with no expectations to had a brackets. Very good surprise!!! Good service, fast served to the table and very very tasty. The prices are good as well. We will return no doubt. Highly recommend.”
“beefsteak with poached egg Juicy place with taste, pretty much everything is well cooked”
- One guest sums it up as “a pretty good diner", not a fine-dining restaurant · set expectations accordingly
- The heat falls short of what the menu promises · said outright in a review
- It has craft beer on tap · in the evening it is a pub rather than a café