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June 8 is shaping up to be our tastiest Monday evening yet!
PAPILA is taking over our Amzei store for a special seasonal dinner while the shop remains open.
After days of conversations, notes, testing and refining, we’ve come together to create a proper three-course dinner, served around one long communal table.

Expect a vegetarian, easygoing menu featuring some of the famous organic greens from Grădina Corbilor, homemade noodles and a nostalgic childhood dessert, all accompanied by a lovely selection of wines. A menu designed to celebrate good food, good company, and the spirit of Bucharest Food Culture, part of Bucharest Design Festival.

Limited seats available.
Reserve your place via the booking form in our bio.

We can’t wait to share this evening with you. It’s going to be a special one.

Glimpses of today’s joy 🥹 We opened the doors to Neighborhood Design Market, curated by .sanziana at OTOTO Dorobanți - a celebration of the people, design and little rituals that make a neighborhood feel like home.

Until 14 June you can discover on our shelves a selection of design objects, self-care and lifestyle goodies by Intro Design, Mr. Postman, Inside Home, Experiment, Beauty Routine and Wunder Wunder, along the yumm pastry by Frudisiac. 🤩 You might get in loove 🤭

Dear shared a piece of her creative universe with us all today. We witnessed live window drawing transforming our facade into a storytell of good mood, good neighborhood, everyday beauty. Visual recipes for slowing down, looking closer and enjoying the simple joys ☕️🥐

Next weekend, June 6–7, we celebrate clean, good and tasty FOOD at Bucharest Food Culture.

We begin on Saturday with a Talk & Taste dedicated to REAL salads together with Grădina Corbilor — a conversation about honest ingredients, seasonality and the beauty of simple food done right.

On Sunday, the table gets bigger with a community brunch & talk:
ONE PLATE, ONE STORY — bringing together 16 restaurants sharing not only their dishes, but also the stories, people and memories behind them.
bucatarieromaneasca .lume .bucharest .localfood .bucharest .plantelor .bucharest

Because food tastes better when shared.

Let’s gather around the table.
More details and links to register in bio

Fully embracing the Japanese concept of “mitate” - to cherish the unexpected connections, to see, to give new life to everyday objects, to appreciate what surrounds us 💙 Grateful to Yulia for bringing this philosophy closer to us, together with the lessons on how to be more calm and present through her beautiful sharing of the way of tea 🍵 More info about Yulia’s workshops in bio.

Drop by to admire the beautiful and vast ceramics selection made by local Romanian crafters and artists, inspired by the Japanese tea and matcha ceremony. It’s what we did all day yesterday :)

CERAMICS POP-UP
OTOTO Victoriei, 2nd floor Sustainable Lifestyle
28 May - 21 Jun
part of

This is about food. Food as indulgence. Food as art. Food as ritual. Food as community. Food as taste. It’s about people, stories, neighborhoods and the joy of gathering around the same table.

It all started with a a shared passion for fermentation and the power of food with Alex Petricean. We then started to imagine together … what if more people would experience food as this? What if people would have the chance to hear the stories of each ingredient… what if a people from Bucharest food community with shared values come together? How can we learn, grow and have fun together?

So we brought food enthusiasts together and started building something around one belief:
WHO FOOD TOGETHER
GROWS TOGETHER.

Inspired by gatherings centered around food, culture and community, Bucharest Food Culture brings together a core circle of passionate, resilient dreamers to imagine and celebrate the future of the city through art, workshops, talks, tastings and shared meals across Bucharest.

Bucharest Food Culture — June 5–12
OTOTO STATION & AMZEI
+ in-restaurants events

Swipe to see the full programme, framed in beautiful food-inspired illustrations 🫶🏻 put together by .bulboaca

Celebrating the intersection between design and everyday moments - through Daia’s imagination and art. 💙🍵

APPLIED ART IN EVERYDAY
design market
May 27 – June 21
OTOTO Amzei

From illustrations, ceramics, tableware and coffee accessories to food and drinks design packaging - this is how art became part of our everyday life. 

As part of our “The Design of Everyday” contribution to BDF GO!, OTOTO Amzei becomes a showcase of beautiful artworks and design we all have access to through everyday products. Art on fish conserve or an olive oil ceramic bottle, illustrations on the tins of coffee, food and drinks.

The products become a “blank canvas” on which artists can express themselves creatively, while also becoming a support for communicating cultural and social initiatives.

Discover at OTOTO Amzei tables filled with stories of the collaborations between beautiful independent brands and artists from the local community in transforming everyday products in little pieces of art ready to collect. 🫶🏻🫶🏻

We think that a beautiful way to learn more about a neighborhood is by getting to know its community of designers, artisans, brands and small businesses that give its identity, rhythm and color. ✨

As part of the first edition of , together with our dear friend and curator Sânziana Pop, we are bringing Neighborhood Design Market at OTOTO Dorobanti under the theme The Design of Everyday.

We invite you all to explore and reflect on how design shapes our everyday lives through a selection of lifestyle goodies curated pe Sânziana from the local designers, crafters, independent stores and brands from Dorobanti, reunited under the same roof: Beauty Routine, Intro Design, Inside Home, Mr. Postman, Wunder Wunder and more to discover throughout the market.

A small celebration of everyday rituals, thoughtful objects and the communities that shape the way we live together. 🫶

Throughout the opening day, you’ll also get to witness inspiring ArsAna transforming the OTOTO facade into a hand-drawn collection of imagined “Recipes for the Neighborhood” - playful and poetic illustrations about good moods, shared coffees, living neighborhoods, care, nature, connection and togetherness.

NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN MARKET
CURATED BY SÂNZIANA POP
30 MAY — 14 JUNE
OTOTO DOROBANTI

OPENING & LIVE WINDOW DRAWING BY ARSANA
30 MAY | 11AM

Come as you are 🌸

Friends, nature and healthy snacks sounds like the dream weekend to us🌳🤍 Aren’t we lucky that make them happen so often?!🗻

Some fun snaps from their 📸 hike with .lucidda.lab, with some good snacks and drinks from our beautiful independent brands as their fuelling companions

All the 🫶🏻🫶🏻 to Nutree (especially for their high protein bars), Dig, True Dates, FruFru, Fountain of Youth, Charitea and more.

What would you pick as your go-to adventure snack? :)

On International Tea Day, we invite you into a moment of stillness through a series of workshops gently introducing Sadō - the Way of Tea - together with our special guest and tea ceremony practitioner from Japan, Yulia Iwasaki-Deak. 🤍🍵

You’ll experience the quiet energy and hands-on practice of the tea and matcha ceremony, learning how moments of mindful presence can bring more calm, connection, and kindness into everyday life. Guided by Yulia, you’ll learn how to prepare matcha as a host and receive it as a guest, while exploring the philosophy behind tea rituals through authentic tea whisks from Nara, Japan.
More details & sign-up link in bio.

A TASTE OF JAPANESE TEA CULTURE WITH YULIA IWASAKI-DEAK
28 MAY, 6PM
13, 14, 20 JUNE, 10:30AM
Victoriei

After the workshop, maybe you’ll leave with more than the matcha skills - maybe with a new way of making space for yourself, too.

One of the core philosophies of the Way of Tea is to “use what is available in one’s surroundings.” In this spirit, Yulia wished to bring local Romanian ceramics and utensils into the tea setting, allowing Japanese tea culture and Romanian craftsmanship to meet naturally in the same bowl - an expression of “mitate” - the art of finding beauty in unexpected connections.

Alongside the workshops, we will host Ceramics Pop-up featuring a curated selection of objects by local artists inspired by tea and matcha culture in Japan. 🫖

CERAMICS POP-UP
28 MAY - 21 JUNE
VICTORIEI, 2ND FLOOR

Featuring:
ATELIER CERARS | INGERI SI ZMEI | KINTO | MELLON COLLIE | POEMI | SOFTCORE | SANDRA BERGHIANU | UNEN | VISCRI CERAMICS