Dream House

Previously known as Veggie Home. Still same chef. Recently re-painted and freshened up from a run down state.

Went back to give a second chance. By far the worst restaurant in Sofia and one of the worst in my personal experience.

Today's special, falafel, arrived cold, dry and insipid. Soup worse than anywhere else. Salad was not fresh.

I strongly advise anybody to avoid this place! Tram line right next to the window will add radiation to this horrid experience.

The lack of quality is almost ludicrous. I said this to their face as well as we left. And I will certainly never set foot there again.




Updated from previous review on 2017-03-11

The restaurant is on the first floor of a small shopping center. It's quite quirky, not very big but colourfully decorated. They have a standard menu plus daily specials. The bulgarian vegetable stew was really good. The 'Green Guru' is fresh and crunchy and the hummus delicious. The staff speaks english and is helpful and friendly. They have an herbal tea from the mountains that is delicious. Everything can be ordered to take away. Portions are generous and prices low. Wifi is available.

Found the hidden away, back stairs location a bit creepy but it was nice enough inside. Had a lovely Japanese teapot and mug for my sencha tea but found the food a little disappointing. My curry was nice but a little dry and no rice with it. My husband ordered stewed potatoes thinking it would be potato based meal, stew or something (it was under mains) but it was literally a plate of potato. All tasted fine and good service but was slightly bewildering overall. Please note cash only, no cards (had to run out to find an ATM).

They don't have soy or ricemilk like the description says, but I had a gingerlemonade and it was very tasty :)

I ordered food for the first time from Dream House just now, have never tried their food before, but it is soooooooo tasty! And I'm a picky person. I tried the hummus, the chickpeas with vegetables, red lentils from the daily menu and pancakes with olive paste and veggies. Everything was out of this world delicious. The lady I spoke to on the phone was super nice and polite and they didn't mind my requests about the food and made everything just perfect. The delivery was also super fast.

Great resturant, many choices, delicious desserts, specifically the vegan raw lemon - chocolate cake.

Dream House is the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Sofia that I have ever visited. The atmosphere and the overall experience I've had from this place haven't changed since my first visits in 2005.

The food is okay. There are some really great foods on the menu, while others I simply don't like. A huge downfall is that sometimes you order something favorite and it turns out they don't have it available at the moment. Especially, when it comes to the vegan sushi (where they use quinoa instead of rice).

Dream House is the best place to visit on Sunday.

Every Sunday afternoon (12 to 4 pm) there is an all-you-can-eat buffet where you can choose from dozens of delicious meals, and all that for 10 leva (€5). And best of all, most of the food at the buffet is vegan.

Dream House is a vegetarian restaurant and most of the times you should always ask the staff if something is vegan or not. Unfortunatelly, sometimes they tell you that something is vegan but it turns out that it contains honey. So you should be careful and ask if it contains honey in addition to the questions if it's vegan.

The interior deisgn is really cute. They have the cutest tables and chairs, the personnel have always been smiley and nice to customers.

It's the oldest, the cheapest and the most accessible vegetarian restaurant in Sofia. Go there on Sunday afternoon and stuff yourself with a lot of food.

We stayed in Sofia for a couple of days and Dream House was the last vegan/vegan-friendly venue we decided to try. It's located at the very heart of Sofia, so it is really accessible. It may seem that it is hard to find but once you spot their sign there's no chance to get lost. They have great lunch offers that vary day by day and come at a great price. Food comes in really decent portions so you won't walk away hungry. It is really quite simple, almost has a home-made feeling to it, which is quite nice. Also there's a hostel right next door so you can stay there and come to the restaraunt to eat, which is very convenient. All in all, definitely would come again when in Sofia!

I ordered the buckwheat pancakes and mediterranean salad. Both looked good and they tasted healthily (yes, I can tell :D) but I can't say I'd love having them again. Same goes for my boyfriend who had bamboo salad and broccoli with olive paste. So, all in all - good food but not great. :)

The food is not great, but good enough. The Chinese dishes (Tofu Gong Bao and Sichuan potatoes) are far away from the real thing, but eatable. Medium to big portions.
Anyway is very cheap, and definitely good value for money.

I ate at Dream House twice during my trip to Sofia. I was happy to find such a conveniently located veg place and I liked the kind of grungy and artsy atmosphere. The owner of the place was really kind and helpful to me (which I really appreciated after experiencing pretty poor customer service elsewhere in Sofia) and she recommended a few dishes to me, including the buckwheat pancakes with mushroom which were tasty (but had a little too much cheese for my liking). I enjoyed the simplicity of the quinoa with aubergine dish and the chickpea patties - it was hard to choose what to eat, as everything on the menu sounded so good! I'd defintely go back if I was in Sofia.
Updated from previous review on Saturday August 29, 2015

First of all make sure to read the hints how to find this place carefully in advance to be sure not it miss it.
Once you are there you most likely won't be disappointed. Interior is simple and straight forward, no knick-knacks, no unnecessary stuff. Huge range of starters, salads, mains and so on. But, seriously, it won't kill them to change those tattered menus, since most of them fall apart. Not much effort needed here to make a big difference. As mentioned, there are lots of choice, but they have to be chosen with reason. I for instance ordered a dish with mushrooms and tofu which indeed turned out to be only mushrooms with tofu drowned in some dark sauce. It wasn't bad, yet I would have enjoyed it much more with rice or pasta aside.
Home-made orangeade was great. For dessert I took a pancake with jam since they had run out of most of their desserts. It was fair, not more, not less than that.

This place is one flight up, know the address so you don't miss it. Once you are past the throngs of people from the hostel next door smoking in the stairs and hall and make your way into the restaurant it is a nice place. Very simple and basic. As another reviewer put it, not pretentious by design. The menu is in English and there are a lot of vegan options at this veggie joint. The soup I had was especially good, the main meal was fine. It is a solid choice for a decent meal, but it is just that, more utilitarian than place you want to hang out and enjoy in. Staff was very nice. Food is very cheap, a great value.

the only place on planet Earth where I can eat as much as I want!
The food is great! And most vegan!

This place is not very pretentious, аs design, but serves very good and tasty food.

It is easily reachable,in the city centre
,but you have to mind, they are on the first floor,so you first have to find the entrance on the left of the passage,and take the stairs.

Good choice of vegan and some vegetarian food.

Food is really good,especially for this money.

Service is good.

Enjoy!

Sofia is rich in vegetarian restaurants with vegan options. This restaurant is a bit hard to find but it has the advantage of being one of the most centrally located. Follow the instructions given on Happy Cow and you will be fine.

The venue is tastefully decorated while the food is quite simple but very well priced, out of the 3 or so I tried in Sofia this was the cheapest venue.

The buckwheat pancakes with tapenade and vegetables were cold but lovely, while the Gado Gado was a pile perhaps unsophisticated but honest pile of vegetables coated in a thin film of peanut butter.

The desserts included a raw cake with orange: this instead was quite gourmet, very deep and lovely looking!

I ate here five times when I was in Sofia. One thing I really liked about this place is that it is very affordable, as there are many main courses for 5 or 6 lev, and the portion size is a good one. They have a soup and two other dishes that change daily. The soup at 2 lev is cheaper than the soup in the menu, but the daily main course at 5 lev is priced about the same. Both soups I had were delicious. The stuffed peppers and moussaka from the lunch menu were decent. However, I preferred the food from the a la carte menu. The kung pao tofu was good. I had the chickpea croquettes twice, and they were also good. Although I would have preferred if the croquettes were a little crispier.

One difference I found with other vegetarian restaurants in Sofia is that they didn't automatically give me tap water. It wasn't until I went to another restaurant that I realized that tap water is ok to drink in Sofia, and there is a public spring in the downtown area where I could fill up my water bottle. It would be nice if they would start giving out tap water, without customers having to request it.

Although I am an omnivore, I like to eat vegetarian and vegan food, and at restaurants, it is nice when the vegan food is labelled on the menu which unfortunately is not the case any longer at Dream House. Unfortunately, they do not have plant milk anymore. I am lactose intolerant, so I appreciate when restaurants have plant milk.

The staff were pleasant and were patient with me when I asked questions. I also had a nice conversation with one of the staff there.

Decent food, good selection of vegan dishes. Dish of the day served immediately, no waiting. Personnel could be better, I found them sad and slow but helpful nevertheless. And a sad surprise for the end: no soy milk...