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Fine dining and slow living in our 800-year-old family estate, in the heart of Transylvania’s countryside. Member of

07/06/2026

Just across the road from Caretaker’s House stands the Bethlen János House, built in the 1650s by Bethlen Jànos, chancellor of Transylvania. A place where centuries of history still live quietly within the walls, soon to begin a new chapter of its own.

Open the curtains and Transylvania slowly unfolds before you. Spend your summer in a restored historic home where every window opens onto the peaceful spirit of the village. Caretaker’s House was first imagined as a place for our own family to gather: lunches in the garden, children running barefoot through the grass, long evenings around the table. What began as a deeply personal restoration project has since become something we are proud to share. Today, it welcomes families and friends looking to experience the quiet beauty of Transylvania in a way that feels intimate and deeply comforting. A stay here feels less like visiting and more like returning home.

04/06/2026

Our new seasonal tasting menu. Summer is the season of abundance, but also of patience. Tastes deepen, herbs grow bolder, plump vegetables carry more sweetness and all the sun’s warmth in their skin.

Book a table on ialoc.ro and experience one of those rare evenings you carry home with you, an encounter with summer, told through terroir, memory and imagination.

Book your table here: https://ialoc.ro/restaurante-targu-mures/kitchen-barn-bethlen-estates-transylvania-rezervari-4570?experience=focus&source=facebook&locale=ro

02/06/2026

Announcement: our restaurant is now available on ialoc. Which means you can book your table for our new summer tasting menu even if you are only passing through Transylvania for one evening. And if, after dinner, you feel like staying a little longer, this is what waits for you here: quiet houses, garden paths, summer light, the rhythm of the village, long mornings, slow afternoons and a place that feels less like a destination and more like a season you step into.

Our new summer tasting menu is signed by our culinary team and shaped by the rhythm of this place: the gardens in full bloom, ripe fruit, fresh herbs, warm evenings and the beautiful simplicity of things made by hand.

It is a menu about how a day feels here, in Criș (Kreisch, Keresd) from morning light to dinner in the Barn, with everything the garden, the village and our team bring together at the table.

Book your table here: https://ialoc.ro/restaurante-targu-mures/kitchen-barn-bethlen-estates-transylvania-rezervari-4570?experience=focus&source=facebook&locale=ro

28/05/2026

It’s the small things that begin your day here. Flowers gathered fresh, resting by your bedside. A quiet yoga session to ease you into the day. The houses are filled with books, stories left open, waiting to be continued. And if you feel like stepping outside, we can set a picnic just beyond your door, in the soft green of the garden. Here, everything is possible, but nothing is expected. At Bethlen Estates Transylvania, all it takes is a simple request.

26/05/2026

Open for the curious gourmets. Our spring tasting menu is ready to delight you. Find a table on OpenTable and discover our take on spring. Seasonal ingredients shape everything we do in the kitchen. This is something we recently explored in a conversation with De Corina. Known for highlighting new restaurant openings, inspiring places and carefully curated travel experiences, it’s a source worth following.

We’re grateful for the invitation, it was a pleasure to share the ingredients that define spring and that you’ll begin to notice more often in menus this season, from wild garlic and morels to kohlrabi and delicate foraged greens.

24/05/2026

Thinking of getting away, just the two of you, even if only for a night? Book your Spring Escape, a one night stay complete with our signature seasonal tasting experience that captures Transylvania at its freshest. Now you can book a single room in the Corner Barn, stay one night and immerse yourself in a contemporary culinary story that celebrates the beautiful spirit of Transylvania. A short escape, designed for those who travel for taste.

Book here: https://bethlenestates.com/corner-barn/

21/05/2026

Two houses, two ways of being together. Depner House - intimate, with two bedrooms and a living room, a place where mornings gather slowly around coffee and conversation. A house shaped by its past, quietly holding its history in every beam. And then there’s Caretaker’s House - larger, more expansive. Four bedrooms, a library, a generous kitchen, private pool and garden, spaces that invite long dinners, shared stories, children moving freely from room to room. Both made for families.

Book your countryside escape here: https://bethlenestates.com/accommodations/

19/05/2026

There’s something we strongly believe in: to give you what we have at its very best. So each morning begins in the same way, in the garden, at nearby farms, in the pantry. We look at what arrived fresh, what was picked at its peak, what feels right that day. Only then does lunch begin to take shape. No menu written in advance or dishes repeated out of habit. Lunch is decided the very day it is cooked. Simple, generous, made only for the estate guests.

17/05/2026

You could stay in Depner House today and in Corner Barn tomorrow and it would feel like two different worlds. Even within the same house, no two rooms mirror each other. When you stay at Bethlen Estates Transylvania, you don’t check into a hotel. You arrive somewhere that was lived in long before you and carefully brought back to life. There is no “room type” here. No identical copies waiting behind identical doors. Each space carries its own rhythm and charming imperfections. This isn’t hospitality as you know it, it’s something far more personal. Choose the space that speaks to you.

Address

Bethlen Estates Transylvania, Transylvania, 157
Cris
547201

Website

http://www.bethlenestates.com/

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