Address: 6 Tzaribrod Street, Plovdiv
Telephone:032 266 907

We enter K2 after a long walk through Plovdiv's fashionable Kapana neighbourhood and the city centre. It's situated somewhat on a hill not far from the main shopping area. The first impression of the restaurant is that it is quite modern and clean. A young waitress welcomes us in and helps us to find a suitable table. The menu is like your typical modern Bulgarian kitchen, containing semi-traditional things like pieces of fried Kashkaval (yellow cheese), stuffed peppers and Supa Topcheta (meatball soup), but also somewhat different things like chicken curry, broccoli salad, Italian bean salad and pancakes filled with three types of cheese.
We were discussing how people from Plovdiv feel that their city has the only true right to being called the capital of Bulgaria. Old Plovdiv's architectural and historical reserve lies on the Three Hills, Nebet Tepe, Djambaz Tepe and Taksim Tepe. It contains about 200 different archeological, architectural and historical monuments from different periods. On the Northern hill, Nebet Tepe, an old Thracian city was found, Eumolpia, which dates back to the12th Century BCE. Later on, the Hellenes and the Romans left their traces in Plovdiv, which was then called Phillippopolis. Between the 15th and 17th centuries many Turks settled along the Maritsa River. Of course their stay is also still visible. And then the National Revival, during the 18th and the 19th centuries left its treasures in Plovdiv. It's very useful indeed to have friends who are like walking encyclopedias. So while we are ordering our beers, I'm being briefed on the history of Plovdiv. I normally don't drink beer, to the great outrage and shock of most Dutch people, but I am willing to make an exception and order a dark beer along with the rest of my friends.
We order: `cheese perkament' (1.49 leva), salad Fukla (2.98 leva) (with broccoli and bacon), chicken wings (2.39 leva), meat ball soup (1.29 leva), pork fillets (3.89 leva), carrot and cabbage salad (0.99 leva), baby potatoes (1.50 leva), veal fillets (3.49 leva), a coleslaw salad (1.29 leva) and cream soup with croutons (1.29 leva). The people that ordered soup had ordered some bread as well. Unfortunately it didn't arrive together with the soup, to the great disappointment of one of person. The waitress arrives some time later with apologies fit for something truly awful. Poor girl.
 I sip my beer. My salad arrives. The broccoli is fresh, the garlic dressing nice and not too heavy and the bacon is indeed bacon. I let others taste and they agree, nice! I nick some pork fillets off my boyfriend's plate. Fortunately this practice is considered ok, because I always have the excuse that I'll have to write a review. And what good are you, if you don't taste all that's on offer? I approve the pork and move on to the veal that my friend who's sitting to my right is having. Very tasty too, not dry and just right. My chicken wings arrive. They are marinated a little and grilled in such a way that they are still juicy, but cooked. I am not one for wanting a second salmonella infection. The only disappointment is the baby potatoes that were obviously frozen. Yuk! Apart from that we had a very satisfying meal. Exactly right for what you would expect from a Moorish type of restaurant with quite low prices. We paid our total bill of 39.60 leva and left to have some Turkish coffee and sweets somewhere else.