Georgian khachapuri offered on menu of popular Argentinian restaurant chain
Almacén de Pizzas will serve Adjarian khachapuri with four different cheese varieties. Photo: Tasty Arbuz.
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Almacén de Pizzas, one of the most popular restaurant chains in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is offering Georgian cheese-filled bread, khachapuri, on its menu, the Embassy of Georgia in Argentina reports.
The restaurant chain will offer three varieties of khachapuri which come from Georgia’s Adjara region and is called Adjarian khachapuri. This is the open-faced version of khachapuri topped with butter and a raw egg on top.
Almacén de Pizzas will serve Adjarian khachapuri with four different cheese varieties.
The guests of Almacén de Pizzas will be able to taste Georgian khachapuri for 499 peso (about $12).
The unique Georgian cheese-filled bread, khachapuri, is the best rated dish on the first global local food atlas, TasteAtlas, and is included among 100 best dishes in the world revealed by the food professionals.
American restaurant and hospitality consulting firm af&co has named Georgian food as the cuisine of the year and Georgian cheese-filled bread, khachapuri, as the dish of the year in the 2019 Hospitality Trends Report.
Georgia’s national dishes have been showcased for the first time at Sirha 2019, an international hospitality and food service exhibition in Lyon, France.
The tradition of making khachapuri, one of Georgian cuisine’s iconic dishes, has received the status of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Georgia.
Amid the shrinking of cultural exchange between countries due to the coronavirus outbreak, Georgian cuisine is still managing to reach new taste buds as far as Japan.
Cuisine from Georgia’s Black Sea region of Adjara, as well as local winemaking traditions and folklore were showcased at the Fortress of Tastes historical culinary festival in Poland, the Adjara Tourism Department said on Friday.