Zexe

Romanian heritage cuisine — butcher's specialties, charcoal grill, historical cakes in Aviatorilor

Address: Bd. Aviatorilor nr. 40, București
Phone: 0732.232.424

Menu prices: 9–170 · £££ · Median main: 76 · 84/84 with a published price

Romanian heritage cuisine — butcher's specialties, charcoal grill, historical cakes

Cold Starters

• Platters of dry-cured sausages — 62 lei

  100gr. Made from beef and pork, with walnut, cheese, hot pepper and fine truffle notes; recommended for two people
• Smoked cold cuts — 32 lei

  100gr. Ham, cooked or dried filets, smoked bacon, smoked or boiled cutlets, spicy sausages — classic recipes with 100% natural ingredients, made in the venue's own butchery under the name “The Pig Tal
• Smoked Duck Breast — 48 lei

  100gr. Matured in salt about two weeks and smoked
• Smoked Mangalitsa fillet — 46 lei

  100gr. Made in our butchery
• Duck terrine with small scallion jam — 54 lei

  100gr. Stuffed duck liver, Port wine, spices, scallion jam
• Foie gras entier (whole) with spicy orange jam and tămaioasă jelly (Cold Starters) — 79 lei

  100gr. Recipe from Ecaterina Colonel Steriade's 1871 cookbook
• Beef tartare — 74 lei

  100/50gr. Raw meat chopped with a hatchet, embellished with spices
• Turkey jelly with quail egg — 36 lei

  130gr. Long cooked so it remains sparkling clear
• Chickpea salad with black truffles — 42 lei

  200gr
• Boeuf Salad — 42 lei

  200gr. Mixed salad with home made mayonnaise
• Pike roe (caviar) (Cold Starters) — 42 lei

  80gr. After the original recipe of the Mantu family from Galați
• Sturgeon stew (zacuscă) (Cold Starters) — 43 lei

  180gr. With cucumbers, chives or scallion
• Homemade stew (zacuscă) (slightly spicy) (Cold Starters) — 42 lei

  200gr. Eggplant baked over open fire, Kapia peppers, sweet red peppers, onions, chopped spices
• White bean caviar — 32 lei

  200/30gr. Seasoned with garlic, salt, julienne fried onion, sunflower oil and sweet paprika
• Eggplant salad — 40 lei

  200gr. Mixed with chopped onion

Warm Starters

• Royal Tuslama (traditional tripe and edge meat casserole) (Warm Starters) — 42 lei

  300gr. Concentrated broth slow-boiled one full night, garlic and yogurt, served hot
• Marrow in its own bone — 59 lei

  900/40gr. Oven baked, coarse salt and garlic paste
• Meat pie with brown sauce and sour cream — 42 lei

  200/100gr. A blend of meats with spices in a crispy crust
• Canned pork jaws — 54 lei

  150gr
• Duck gizzard confit — 46 lei

  120gr. Slow cooked for several hours in duck fat with spices
• Catfish scraps — 58 lei

  180/50/20gr. Spiced up with garlic and fast fried
• Meatballs ZEXE — 46 lei

  180gr net / 250gr gross. Dill, fine minced meat, onion, garlic, bread crumbs in milk
• Crispy zucchini with refreshing yogurt sauce — 42 lei

  180/150gr
• Spinach and cheese pie with leek sauce, Dobrogea-style — 42 lei

  250/100gr

Cheese / Miscellaneous

• Feta cheese — 34 lei

  100gr. From Sibiu County, dotted with black sesame
• Butter with black truffles — 18 lei

  50gr. Well mixed and lightly salted

Salads

• Pickles — 32 lei

  300gr. Pickles of all kinds, home made
• Beet salad with horseradish — 25 lei

  200/20gr. Red beet baked, served with grated horseradish
• Fresh vegetable salad — 26 lei

  300gr. Tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, combined as you wish
• Baked pepper salad — 30 lei

  300gr. With a little oil and vinegar
• Cabbage salad — 22 lei

  300gr. Salt, apple vinegar and Greek oil
• Tomato salad with telemea cheese — 34 lei

  250/50gr

Appetizer Salads

• Salad mix with buffalo cheese stuffed with truffles and black radish sauce — 54 lei

  300gr
• Wild smoked salmon with arugula salad and horseradish, wild garlic and mint sauce — 58 lei

  300gr
• Salad mix with avocado, tomatoes, chives and lemon sauce with pumpkin seeds — 52 lei

  300gr

Side Dishes

• French fries straw — 27 lei

  200gr. Fried in duck lard
• Baked Potatoes — 32 lei

  350gr. Baked on charcoal, served with cream and garlic sauce
• Mashed potatoes with truffles — 36 lei

  300gr
• Grilled Vegetables — 30 lei

  130gr net / 200gr gross. Olive oil and salt
• Polenta — 9 lei

  250gr

Sour Soups and Soups

• Tripe Sour Soup (schembea) (Sour Soups and Soups) — 39 lei

  100/300gr. Cream and yolk, vegetables and vinegar
• Goat Sour Soup — 42 lei

  60/300gr. Spiced with cream and tarragon
• Giblets Sour Soup — 36 lei

  100/300gr. Country chicken boiled with vegetables, soured with lemon juice
• Meatball Sour Soup — 35 lei

  100/300gr. Chopped meat boiled in a bran-fermented traditional blend
• Mushrooms bucovinean borsch — 32 lei

  80/300gr
• Clear oxtail soup with noodles — 36 lei

  120/300gr

Fish

• Grilled carp in brine — 72 lei

  200/250/10gr. With polenta and pepper (Dobrogea recipe)
• Fried carp — 66 lei

  200/250/10gr. With garlic sauce, hot peppers and polenta
• Sturgeon round cuts — 90 lei

  160/180gr. Charcoal grilled, served with spinach
• Black Tiger prawns in butter sauce — 99 lei

  140/60gr. With wine and a dash of garlic
• Zander fillet with capers sauce — 78 lei

  180/100gr. Danube zander, garlic, capers sauce and natur potatoes
• Salmon with stewed fresh vegetables in butter and ginger — 89 lei

  140/180gr
• Grilled Octopus — 125 lei

  160/60/70gr. With salad and lemon sauce, garlic sauce and yogurt sauce with cucumbers
• Black Sea shells in wine sauce with lemon grass — 72 lei

  700/150gr

Cooked Foods

• Cooked lamb garnished with fried mashed potatoes — 82 lei

  300/200gr. Oven long cooked with fresh herbs, brown sauce from its own broth
• Veal stew with polenta — 67 lei

  200/250gr
• Calf jaws in red wine sauce — 86 lei

  200/170gr. Slowly cooked in the oven for about ten hours, demi-glace sauce, fried mashed potatoes with onion
• Duck confit — 72 lei

  180/200gr. Garnished with cabbage and peppers
• Cabbage rolls (sărmăluţe), wild boar version (Cooked Foods) — 72 lei

  200/250gr. Minced wild boar and spices in sauerkraut sheets, garnished with cabbage and polenta
• Oven baked turkey rolls with potato pudding and nutmeg — 72 lei

  200/170gr
• Wild mushroom stew with polenta — 62 lei

  300/250gr. Mountain recipe with noble mushrooms

Butcher's Specialties

• Calf Brain — 34 lei

  75gr net / 100gr gross. Grilled in a parchment roll, pan fried with breadcrumbs or cooked butcher's style
• Veal sweetbreads — 32 lei

  70gr net / 100gr gross
• Strap pastrami — 38 lei

  70gr net / 100gr gross. A tiny muscle of the abdomen, hard to reach and cut
• Calf liver — 36 lei

  60gr net / 100gr gross. With marrow and red wine sauce if you want

Charcoal Grill

• Patricieni (Romanian product) (Charcoal Grill) — 58 lei

  155gr net / 200gr gross. Interwar-period sausage, recipe of chef Bacalbașa
• Spicy sausages — 56 lei

  160gr net / 180gr gross. Based on the composition of Pleșcoi sausages
• Zexe sausages — 56 lei

  170gr net / 180gr gross
• Boneless pastrami made out of lamb chop — 76 lei

  150gr net / 200gr gross
• Lamb fillet — 89 lei

  120gr net / 200gr gross. Flavored in special marinades and aged in the cold room for two days
• Mititei “ZEXE” — 9 lei

  65gr/pc net / 80gr/pc gross. Mix of meats, broths and spices laid to rest for two days

Fine Meats

• Argentinian Beef Loin — 120 lei

  165gr net / 200gr gross
• Premium Ribeye steak — 170 lei

  270gr net / 350gr gross
• Guinea fowl breast / Turkey breast — 68 lei

  170/220gr net / 200/250gr gross
• Mangalitsa scruff — 88 lei

  185gr net / 250gr gross
• Iberian pork chop — 138 lei

  270/150gr net / 360/150gr gross. Acorn-fed pig, served with crispy green beans

Desserts

• Take Ionescu — 44 lei

  125gr. Pistachio cream, chocolate cream on almond and cocoa layer (historical Romanian cake, 1908)
• Carmen Sylva — 42 lei

  130gr. Chocolate and coffee shortcake with hazelnuts and Amaretto
• George Enescu — 46 lei

  130gr. Dense cocoa layer moistened with Grand Marnier, candied orange pieces
• Foret-Noire — 46 lei

  130gr. 66% Caribbean black chocolate mousse, alcohol cherry coulis, Madagascar vanilla cream
• Medovik — 44 lei

  125gr. Honey, caramel cream and sour cream layers
• Cheesecake — 38 lei

  160gr
• Chocolate Cake — 39 lei

  170gr. Intense chocolate, forest hazelnuts, raisins flavored in alcohol and orange peel
• Apple Tart With Ice Cream — 40 lei

  200/70gr. Apples and cinnamon in a tender crumbly dough, vanilla ice cream