An icon of the Bulgarian breakfast, it is a pastry filled with Syrene cheese (similar to feta), eggs and sometimes spinach or pumpkin.
It is crispy on the outside and soft inside, perfect with a natural yogurt or ayran, a savory yogurt drink.
If you want to try banica in Sofia, Sofiyska Banitsa is perhaps the best place. The bakery is not very big, but there are high tables to sit and eat. As far as I can see, they only sell banica and have cheese, spinach with cheese, mushrooms, leeks and cheese, apples and pumpkin, but at the moment they only had cheese and spinach with cheese.
It is sold by weight and you can buy 100 grams, 250 grams and 1 kg. I got 250 g and had enough. The banica was one of the best I have ever tried in my life. I also bought ayran from the Balkan company, which is also beautiful and I enjoyed eating it. The banica was still warm.
