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The Unplugged Traveler · Jul 19, 2026

Chişinǎu: The Addresses

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Lisa Abend · The Unplugged Traveler

Do Moldovans see restaurants as shady places for sketchy people to do vaguely disreputable things? It was hard not to draw that conclusion after coming across so many that were either hidden down in basements behind solid doors or wrapped in that one-way plastic that makes it impossible to see inside. All of this scrambled my usual cues for choosing a place to eat, so I make no claims for the relative superiority of what follows. Except for the semi-clandestine, unassuming place I stumbled across, that took a tiny bit of courage to enter, and that I’m pretty sure appears in no guidebook or well-manicured influencer’s Tiktok. That place I’ll make a claim for.

Read on for that, and all the other places I ate, drank, and slept in Chişinǎu:

The significantly better of the two faux-posh options

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