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( 625 427; pl Hadzhi Dimitâr; mains 5-7 lv; 10am-midnight; )
The fairly cav-
ernous Deboya is very central, and a popular place for pizza and traditional Bulgarian
dishes.
Restaurant Toma $$
( 0886 836 263; ul Velikoknyazhevska 27; mains 5-9 lv)
This lively
mehana
outside the
Hotel Toma has a typically large menu of traditional Bulgarian specialities. The live Bul-
garian music performed nightly often caters to special events, which can get loud but end
by 12.30am. When busy service can be a bit gruff.
BULGARIAN
Pri Fabrikadzhiyata $$
( 662 929; ul K Irecheck 14; mains 8-14 lv; )
With a curious name that literally
means 'at the manufacturer's place', this somewhat posh restaurant in the courtyard of the
Hotel National Palace serves an extensive range of good Bulgarian dishes and features
bland live pop music.
There's seating indoors, outdoors and (when there's enough of a crowd) in an atmo-
spheric 18th-century house next door. The restaurant's prices are relatively steep, though
the food is good, with the roast lamb being downright succulent.
BULGARIAN
Getting There & Away
From the small
bus station
( 662 629; ul Hadzhi Dimitâr)
, just past the massive Bila
Supermarket, many daily buses and minibuses go to Stara Zagora (11 lv, one hour) and
Plovdiv (19 lv, three hours). Regular buses serve Veliko Târnovo (16 lv, two hours, eight
daily) and Sofia (29 lv, five hours, 10 daily). Two daily buses serve Kazanlâk (13 lv, one
hour), and one serves Ruse (26 lv, four hours).
Sliven's
train station
( 622 614)
is on the Sofia-Burgas line. Trains serve Sofia (35
lv, 5½ hours, three daily), Burgas (10 lv, 1½ hours, seven daily), Kazanlâk (12 lv, two
hours, six daily), Stara Zagora (12 lv, two hours, five daily), Plovdiv (21 lv, four hours,
three daily), Ruse (41 lv, seven hours, three daily) and Varna (14 lv, four hours, three
daily).
