Pârjoale moldovenești (Moldavian meat patties) with mashed potatoes
Home cooking, no shortcuts.
Traditional Romanian restaurant in Galați
Carrying tradition forward.
Ciorbă de burtă, ciorbă de potroace and Romanian dishes cooked without hurry, on Strada Gării 55 in Galați. Meals that bring people together.
Not only soups
At Ion's the table carries everything, from soup to grilled meat and dessert.
The soups carry our name, but the kitchen goes much further: grilled meats, fish, slow-cooked dishes, burgers, salads and sweets. There is something for children, for those who want something light, and for those who arrive properly hungry.
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The soup of the day
Made in the morning, eaten hot.
Tripe soup with sour cream and garlic, potroace soup with sauerkraut brine, meatball soup. Cooked fresh every day and brought to the table with hot bread and chilli.
Clean food
We cook without flavour enhancers and without added glutamate.
Whole ingredients go into the kitchen, not sachets. In our soups and in the dishes we cook ourselves we use no Delikat, no Vegeta and no added monosodium glutamate.
Where a bought-in product, such as bacon, cured meats or bread, arrives with additives from its maker, we write them in the menu beside that dish. Every item declares its additives and allergens, so you can choose knowing what is in front of you.
See what each dish declaresFor us, ingredients are not decoration but the foundation of taste. We cook simply and honestly, so that you taste each thing as it is: clean, good and made with purpose.
Galați, since 2019
A restaurant where time spent together tastes of something again.
At Ion's, tradition means cleanliness, food cooked properly, and a table where every generation belongs. The room recalls interwar Romania: warm, elegant without pretension, with good music, sometimes a lăutari band, sometimes simply a pleasant background.
Read our storyEvents at the restaurant
A few photographs from a recent evening.
The „Galațiul de altădată" evening, held here on 1 August 2026: vintage cars at the gate, a tasting of wines, Prosecco and divin (Moldovan brandy) alongside the Purcari team, a piano recital and old fiddle music, and our own cooking on the table.
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Food with a purpose
Cooked without hurry, to feed more than hunger.
Romanian recipes, honest portions, and the kind of taste you recognise before you can explain it.
Hearty Bulz (baked polenta with cheese) with egg and smoked meats
Polenta, cheese and quiet.
Bean and smoked pork sour soup
Hot, with red onion on the side.
Ion's therapy
Six little rolls that settle any sorrow. Better than any psychologist, especially if you also have sour cream.
Ion Potîrniche
On the house
Ion's offers
Three things we do every week, without you having to ask.
Daily, 10:00 to 12:00
Coffee or fresh juice, plus still water
On the house, with breakfast.
Monday to Thursday, until 18:00
Draught Guinness, buy one get one free
Guinness only, by the glass.
Daily, 14:00 to 16:00
Free soft drink or beer with a burger meal
With burger and fries.
Room for everyone
The family's long table.
Children, parents and grandparents all belong at the same table. This is where people gather again for stories, the way it used to be.
- indoor seats
- 100
- terrace seats
- 60-70
- days a week
- 7/7
Cooked properly
Chosen ingredients and recipes kept with care.
Hospitality
A warm word and a table where you are genuinely welcome.
For every age
A place where a family makes memories together.
On TikTok and Facebook
Ion shows what goes on the table.
He films what comes out of the kitchen almost every day, and that is also where the occasional dishes and the lăutari evenings are announced.
The table is ready
Come for a warm word, the way it used to be.
Daily 10:00 to 22:00. Last kitchen order 21:30