The fire has been lit since ten in the morning.
A charcoal grill, pizza from a 450°C stone oven and a garden under the pergola. A hundred and twenty seats in a house built to gather people.
We cook the way you cook for your own people.
Chiflika started with one grill, a handful of second-hand turquoise chairs and the belief that good food needs no explanation. Much has changed since — but not grandmother's recipes, and not the chairs.
Meat is grilled over wood charcoal in front of you, vegetables come from growers around Shumen, and bread leaves the oven every two hours.
Stone, solid timber and open beams keep the warmth of the old tavern; the garden under the pergola is a place made for sitting in for hours.
The Chiflika family
Forty-five seconds at four hundred and fifty degrees.
The dough ferments for 48 hours before it ever sees fire. Italian type 00 flour, salt and water — nothing else. In the oven it becomes pizza in under a minute: charred blisters along the crust, a soft centre, a taste you won't find elsewhere in Shumen.
HEAD CHEF · CHIFLIKAThe chef who brought pizza to Chiflika from Italy.
He trained with Italian pizzaioli and cooks. He came back with technique no recipe explains — a feel for dough, for fire, for the exact moment. Today he runs the kitchen and stands at the oven himself on the busiest nights.
The pizzas from the ovenA Bulgarian tavern and a Neapolitan oven do not contradict each other. Both ask only for time and attention.
Six reasons to arrive hungry
One menu, several schools: Bulgarian tavern cooking, an Italian oven and a serious grill. All of it made on site, every day.
Three dishes that define Chiflika.
Convinced? Your table is waiting.
Book a tableThe house is arranged around your occasion.
Birthdays, christenings, company dinners and family gatherings. We set up in advance, agree the menu with you, and leave the rest to you.
Talk to us about itA long table indoors or under the pergola, the house cake and a setting to your taste.
Christenings and anniversaries — high chairs, a play corner and a menu for the little ones.
A separate zone, a fixed menu and one bill. Projector on request.
A list that deserves your time.
We select from the region’s cellars — Han Krum, Targovishte, Shumen — and round it out with small series and aged rakia. We’re happy to help you choose, if you’d like.
What guests say
“The pizza was the surprise — real Neapolitan dough, in a tavern. We came back the next day.”
Everything practical, briefly.
BEFORE YOU COMEYour table is waiting
Reserve indoors, or out in the garden.
For groups over 10, birthdays and family occasions we set everything up in advance. Call us and we'll go through every detail.
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