My spouse and I
enjoyed an early dinner at Soba 102 on a Friday afternoon in early September 2016. Soba is
open Mondays through Wednesdays from 8:00 am until 11:00 pm, with extended
hours until 12:00 midnight or 1:00 am on weekends. The restaurant is closed on
Sundays. Soba 102 accepts
reservations via telephone or using their website.
Slovenian pop star Jan Plestenjak (and his business partner from
Menart Records) own the restaurant. In fact, the restaurant name, Soba 102 (which means “Room 102”) is
derived from one of Jan’s songs, which is meant to describe a place where we
all feel at home. The
restaurant is located between Old Town and Tivoli Park on the street-level of a
block of 19th and 20th century historic buildings. You
enter the restaurant from pedestrian-only Cankarjeva Cesta (street), near the Hotel Slon and NAMA Department
Store. Parking is available on a nearby street or in a parking garage.
The
contemporary restaurant interior features high ceilings, showy lighting, big
windows, and a large bar. You can dine at a high-top table near the front, or
at a regular table, some of which share a long padded camel-colored leather
banquette on one side. Décor includes exposed brick walls hung with vintage
black-and-white photographs of legendary Slovenian singers. Soba 102 also
offers outdoor dining space on the pedestrian-only sidewalk, where you can sit at
weathered teak table and chairs under cover of huge umbrellas. In addition, the
restaurant offers private event space on its basement level; restrooms are also
located below ground at the end of a long corridor.
The Soba 102 menu
offers international cuisine, including pastas, pizza, salads, and burgers. We
each ordered one of the happy hour food special, which was large, well stacked
bacon cheeseburgers accompanied by thickly cut steak fries (served with
ramekins of mayonnaise and French dressing for dipping) presented on wood
cutting boards. Our bill totaled about 50 Euros for the burgers, four rounds of
drinks, and one dessert (Jaffa cheesecake, with chocolate and orange layers
covered in a chocolate ganache).
We enjoyed our happy
hour evening meal on the sidewalk patio at Soba 102.
