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Three generations, one oven

Bakaren Gjum started as a family kitchen with four tables. It is still a family kitchen, just with more tables.

A rustic loaf, sliced, with a glass of red wine and a bowl of green olives.

In 1987 Vera and Dimitar cleared the ground floor of their house on Gjumarska Street, built a wood-fired oven and put four tables in front of it. Neighbours came for the beans; tourists found us by the smell of bread.

The copper jug that gave us our name hung by the door. Dimitar’s father carried water from the spring in it, and later Dimitar filled it with house wine for the tables. It still hangs there.

Today the kitchen is run by their grandson Nikola and his wife Ana. The menu has grown and a terrace was built, but Vera still comes in every morning to taste the beans before the first guests arrive.

How we grew

  1. 1987

    Four tables and an oven on the ground floor of the family house.

  2. 1996

    The first printed menu. Before that, Vera simply told you what there was.

  3. 2009

    The terrace over the old town, open from May to October.

  4. 2021

    Nikola and Ana take over the kitchen. Vera keeps the recipe notebook.

we still write the orders by hand

Where the food comes from

We buy from the same people most years. This is who sends us what.

Beans
Tetovo
Peppers for ajvar
Strumica
White cheese
Galičnik
Trout
fish farms around Ohrid
Wine
Tikveš
Rakija
our own vines in Velgošti
Honey
Galičica
Two glasses of red wine on a wooden deck by the water at sunset.
Ohrid from the air: the old town on its hill, with fortress walls and a church above the lake.
The old town from above
Houses on a steep hillside above Lake Ohrid, with wooded mountains behind.
Lake Ohrid
A stone-paved lane in Ohrid’s old town, with the lake below.
The steps up to Gjumarska Street

Come and taste the beans

Vera checks them every morning. The table is yours for the evening.

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