Local Food Shop
Tasteful Bites of Buzau: Gourmet Artisanal Foods & Gifts
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The Local Food Shop at Conacul Grigorescu
What you will find on the shelf
Dealu Mare wines
The vineyard on the 45th parallel, an hour from the manor. Small estates, including a section of organic and natural wines.
Artisanal drinks
Mead from Miedăria, craft beer from One Beer Later, țuică and pălincă distilled in small batches at Distil Art.
Artisanal meat and cold cuts
Babic, sheep sausages, ghiudem and pastrami, from producers who smoke over wood and can tell you which farm the meat came from.
Local cheese
Penteleu cheese from the mountain sheepfolds and other cheeses from producers we know. Our own goat cheese is served at the table, not sold.
Honey
Acacia on the plain in May, lime in the hills, polyfloral through the summer — from beekeepers in the villages around us.
Marmalades
Marmalades and jams, ours and our neighbours’ — put up in small batches from seasonal fruit.
Preserves
Zacuscă, wild mushrooms, pickles and vegetables put up in season, in small batches.
Syrups made in Buzău
Flower and fruit syrups, made in season, nothing added for flavour or colour.
Oils and seasonings
Cold-pressed sunflower oil from the Bărăgan plain, medicinal herbs picked and dried by hand.
Artisanal pasta
Hand-cut noodles and dried pasta, made in small batches from Romanian wheat – produced in Berca.
Dried fruit
Pitted prunes and apple slices from the orchard at Cernătești — dried, and nothing else.
Natural cosmetics with lavender
Soaps, oils and balms made from lavender grown in the region.
Cookbooks and recipes
Books on Romanian food, and the recipes we cook here — including Juranda’s.
Gift boxes and souvenirs
Selections we put together ourselves, from a small box to the “Buzăul Artizanal” crate. We ship anywhere in Romania.
Crafts
Felted wool from Dor de Lână and other pieces made by craftspeople in the villages around us — by hand, in small numbers.
Learn more about the people behind the products
Mihai · Miedăria
He was given five beehives as a wedding present and, having never kept bees, ended up reviving mead — the drink of the Dacians. He makes it dry and balanced, not strong and sweet as it once was.
Norica · Penteleu Kashkaval
She learned the recipe at nineteen, at the old Nehoiu dairy, from a Macedonian master. Today she makes it with her husband from their fourteen cows: milk and rennet only, certified Mountain Product.
Gigi · Casa de Ulei
A family in Gherăseni opened their own oil press, using sunflower seed from the area. Cold-pressed, not a seed roasted — which is why the oil tastes of raw seed.
Francois · One beer later
A French brewer with more than twenty years in the trade, settled in Buzău. He brews with Ionuț, using 100% Romanian malt and the methods he learned in France.
Artisanal Food Production of Conacul Grigorescu
Rafinețuri by Conacul Grigorescu
We produce handcrafted fruit jams and vegetable preserves under the brand name “Rafinețuri,” using natural fruits and vegetables from our own or surrounding orchards. Our products are crafted according to innovative, reinvented traditional recipes.
Artisanal Goat Cheese
We produce naturally fermented goat’s cheese. Made using local milk near the Mud Volcanoes, this cheese embodies simplicity and flavour. Several varieties are available, including truffle and wild garlic. You can taste the cheese in many innovative dishes. Please note that our cheese is only for our guests and not for sale in the shop.
Charcuterie Products
We prepare — for our farmstay guests — seasonal specialities such as pork belly simmered in cabbage broth, babic, dried sausages, and many other dishes, depending on our inspiration.
What makes us different from a shop by the roadside
Taste at the table, buy on the way out
The weekend menu is cooked with what is on the shelf. If you like something on the plate, you take it home in a jar.
Meet the producer
Learn more about our terroir, where the food comes from and the story behind the products. We run tastings of wine, honey, cheese and spirits, often with the person who made them in the room.
Learn to use them
At the cooking classes with Juranda you cook with the same ingredients, and leave with the recipe and the ingredients.