Mehana

In Cyrillic: механа. You’ll see this, usually carved on wooden signs, outside many restaurants but it doesn’t mean that Mexican food is especially popular. A mehana is an eating place that serves traditional Bulgarian food. It will probably have low ceilings, bare floors, wooden panels on the walls, tables with benches and lots of coarse woollen fabrics woven with red, white and black patterns. A mehana may also be a room in someone’s house – an area devoted to entertaining guests which is often outside or on a lower level, somewhere that’s away from the main living area of the home.