Cerbul Carpatin Watford

You walk into Cerbul Carpatin and it feels like you've stumbled into someone's front room in Bucharest, except the food's better and you don't have to pretend to understand the TV. The menu reads like a love letter to Romanian home cooking—think hearty stews that've been simmering for hours, sausages that actually have flavour, and pastries that'll ruin shop-bought versions for you forever. The Market Street location means it's easy to find, tucked away from the usual high street chaos, and it's got that rare quality of feeling genuinely lived-in rather than designed. Staff know their stuff and won't oversell you anything you don't need.