Bucharest's Summer Gardens. We Found the Coolest Ones
When summer arrives in Bucharest, the city shifts into a different gear. Terraces push their chairs outside, the air smells of linden blossoms and warm asphalt, and after six in the evening people start drifting toward any corner that offers shade and a cold drink. Bucharest in summer can be overwhelming — the traffic, the heat rising off the pavements, the constant noise. But if you know where to look, the city hides gardens where all of that disappears suddenly, as if you've stepped through a secret door.Olari — the courtyard that smells like summer rainStrada Olari 8 looks like any other address in the Armenian quarter, until you step inside. Then you find old walls covered in ivy, a hundred-year-old stable turned into a bar, and that specific quality of places that were never designed to impress and for that very reason do. The smell of hops and basil drifting from the food truck in the courtyard, rough wooden tables marked by glasses from previous evenings, music at a decent volu... Read more
