Balkanika Restaurant

The food was tasty. I had “chicken fantasy”, kind of a chicken stroganoff with potatoes and vegetables.

Great for anyone who's a big fan of grilled meats. Considering the amount of protein you get, the prices are pretty fair. Service was not particularly attentive. We got one glass of water and our server never came back to fill it up. The inside is well decorated and there's also a great outdoor seating area

Good restaurant for Bulgarian food, home made Lukanka salami and great snejanka salad. Also, offer grilled bulgarian style sausages, Kebapche, and Bulagarian beer. Friendly staff and a nice atmosphere.

Generic bulgarian food but very hospitable and inviting place

Good food during the week. But during weekends, better i will not say anything. Old products, old food, doesn't test good. We had our daughter baptism celebrating there , bed experience. I would pay attention to the personal who works there. Improve the fresh products please and change personal, they looks like they really don't care about costumers. We have been there many times and finally i decided to write a review. Who knows, maybe one day they will improve this stuff.

Good place to have dinner. Prices are normal . Service was excellent. Definitely recommend this place.

Always great food and nice people. On weekends good music

This is the last time I will step in this restaurant. We were invited by some friends so we had to go even though we had some bad experiences in the past. First they told us to choose any table we want because there were plenty of available ones, then they decided to move us to a different one. The first table had the chairs dirty, at the second one, the bench we sat on had some sort of sand on it. We had to wait for a while to get the menu. One good think maybe is that the portions are pretty generous, but the service sucks. I had to ask for a glass of water a couple of times and even though the waitress walked past the table a couple of times she did not bring any water until I had to ask again. I ordered 2 different dishes and could not finish them because it wasn't that good. Also, we saw a cockroach on the wall. That's when we decided to just leave. Would not reccomend.

Great food and very nice outside patio. The grilled meats are very tasty and portions are huge.

We ordered the seafood mix for takeout and were thoroughly disappointed. Got a couple of pieces of shrimp and squid, and only one piece of octopus. It was definitely a rip-off for $25. The restaurant did not include the mixed greens that were promised in the menu. We will definitely not be coming here again.

Great food, I have been going here with my parents and family friends. I always have good memories here and that will never change. Here I am laying down on the bench. With my stomach hurting.I walked in and almost everything was different. They got a new store, the menu looked different. But that wasn’t that important. I ordered my food and everything was great. We walked around and that was normal too. Then we wanted to go get some ice cream. We said down and the people next to us were loud but we were too so that didn’t bother us. We ordered ice cream and after 7 or 8 minutes we got it. She gave us our ice cream politely. Here’s where the story turns. I eat one of my scoops and my stomach starts to hurt. I look for a quiet place to rest. Here I am now laying down on the bench.Tips: add a couch. It will be very helpful when people want to sit in a quieter area.The old ice cream was way better, please switch it with the old one. Over all, I always like my experience!!:))

Nice and clean. Needs staff update and definitely new chief in the kitchen. Food quality is poor.

It has really good food and nice people to

I adore this restaurant very much. theres a friendly atmosphere. The cuisine is very tasty. the service is powerful and the stuff is trained. The pay is fair. very much recommend.

Celebrated my 50 anniversary there, with friends ! Food and service were good. All the alcohol we consumed was thinned out significantly. That reminded me of the restaurants back home 25 years ago! I’m not going there anymore, despite it was my favorite restaurant in Chicago!