The World's Best Restaurants · 2026
Kobarid, Slovenia
The Soča Valley informs expressive cooking with alpine character and borderland perspective.
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Hiša Franko makes the remoteness of Slovenia’s Soča Valley an active culinary resource. Ana Roš builds one annual menu from the alpine, Adriatic and borderland ingredients that can reach the house, supported by an underground cheese cellar and a natural-leaning wine programme. The current Footprints menu carries recognisable house ideas such as the corn beignet while extending the conversation through the work of the team around Roš. Its strongest claim is not novelty but a highly specific food geography: mountain dairies, river systems, foragers and the cultural crossings of western Slovenia. That depth, sustained in a difficult rural setting, defines a a leading restaurant record for the stated edition restaurant.
The restaurant’s supply network and flavour vocabulary are rooted in the Soča Valley, giving its cooking a geographic specificity that cannot be readily transferred elsewhere.
A single annual menu creates a demanding test of editing and development, while the cheese cellar and wine programme extend local identity beyond the plated courses.
Roš has developed an internationally legible cuisine from a remote border region without flattening its alpine, Adriatic and Central European tensions into generic luxury.
The restaurant’s official pages and current menu verify authorship, format and regional framing. This assessment does not claim firsthand proof of full-menu balance, the sourcing of a particular service or room performance on a particular day.
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