Felines works in Bucharest as the escort agency of discerning visitors, arranging high end dates on an outcall basis only, in your hotel or at the private address where you are staying.
Bucharest is best read along one street. The Calea Victoriei, laid out in the seventeenth century as the city's main road, runs from the north towards the river Dâmbovița, past palaces, banks, theatres and the hotels where most visitors stay. North of it lie the parks and the quiet villa districts; at its southern end, the old town and, beyond, the Palace of Parliament. Michelin does not yet award stars in Romania, but its Keys for hotels now cover the country, and four of the addresses below have received them.
The guide follows the avenue from north to south, after a detour through the parks and villa streets of the north, and ends at the Parliament.
Above the Piața Victoriei, the city opens out into wide boulevards, embassies and lakes, with a handful of the best tables in town.
On the Boulevard Primăverii, the Primăverii Palace was the private residence of the Ceaușescu family. The guided visit takes in the gilded bathroom, the private cinema and a garden where peacocks still live, a strange and memorable hour.
The largest of the parks, officially King Michael I Park but still called Herăstrău by most people, surrounds a lake in the north of the city. Closer to the centre, the Cișmigiu gardens lie a few minutes west of the Calea Victoriei.
On the Șoseaua Nordului, Casa di David has served Italian and Mediterranean cooking since 2003, with a lakeside terrace that is hard to book in summer.
Near the Piața Charles de Gaulle, Kaiamo is where Radu Ionescu, after seven years in London, and Cezara Tănase cook modern Romanian food. Four seasonal tasting menus run from nine to twenty courses, and the restaurant holds three toques from Gault & Millau Romania.
Yuki, on the Puțul lui Zamfir, calls itself a Japanese home dining room, and its reputation rests on dishes well beyond sushi, prepared with little concession to European tastes.
From the Piața Revoluției southwards, the avenue gathers the city's grandest addresses within a walk of a few minutes.
The Athénée Palace opened in 1914 on the square now called Piața Revoluției, and its English Bar was for decades the place where diplomats, journalists and spies kept an eye on one another. Today the hotel has the JORJ restaurant and terrace, the Café Athénée and a spa, and it holds one Michelin Key.
Around the corner, on the Strada Nicolae Golescu, Joseph Hadad cooks Mediterranean dishes with Middle Eastern and Moroccan influences, in a room that suits a relaxed first dinner.
Directly on the avenue, at numbers 63 to 81, the Radisson Blu is large and central, with an indoor pool, an outdoor pool open in the warm months, a spa and a casino.
A few minutes west, in a quiet street near the Cișmigiu gardens, the Epoque, a Relais & Châteaux member, has thirty-four suites, with interiors of French inspiration and one Michelin Key. Its restaurant, L'Atelier, serves French gastronomic cooking, and the winter garden is pleasant for an aperitif.
Not far away, on the Strada Ion Brezoianu, Vatra serves traditional Romanian cooking, done on hot stones and in clay pots, in a dining room furnished in the Transylvanian style of the 1920s. Its sarmale, cabbage rolls, are the dish to order.
At the corner of the Calea Victoriei and the Bulevardul Elisabeta, the Grand Hotel du Boulevard first opened in 1873. After a long restoration it reopened on 24 March 2025 as the Corinthia, with thirty suites only, the Boulevard 73 restaurant in the former ballroom and afternoon tea at the Heritage Bar. No other hotel in Bucharest had received two Michelin Keys before it.
East of the avenue, the old town is a grid of narrow streets, old merchant passages and bars, busy late into the night at weekends.
The Strada Lipscani, which starts from the Calea Victoriei, gives its name to the whole quarter: nineteenth-century façades, covered passages and inns, and the best concentration of bars in the city.
The Marmorosch occupies the palace of the former Marmorosch Blank bank, built between 1915 and 1923 by Petre Antonescu, with murals by Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck. Since 2021 it has been a hotel, with a painted glass roof over the lobby and one Michelin Key.
Downstairs, The Vault fills the bank's former strongroom. Two rooms lined with empty safe-deposit boxes make it the most unusual bar in the old town, reached through a gilded door near the lobby.
On the Strada Covaci, Sippers hides behind an unmarked door, a cocktail bar for the later part of the evening.
NOMAD, on the Strada Smârdan, is a rooftop bar with a glass roof that opens in fine weather and a view over the roofs of the old town.
On the eastern fringe of the quarter, on the Strada Nicolae Tonitza, Abel's is a small wine bar devoted largely to Romanian wines. It opens from Tuesday to Saturday, and booking is required on Saturdays.
South-west of the old town, the Palace of Parliament is listed by Guinness as the heaviest building in the world. Guided tours take in only a small part of it, which is quite enough to understand the scale of the ambition behind it.
Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest, the city's festival of films from Cannes, runs from 23 October to 1 November 2026. Christmas markets usually open on the Piața Constituției and the Piața Universității at the end of November and stay until the last days of December.
Allow twenty-four to forty-eight hours of notice. Most of our companions travel from abroad, which is why a Bucharest booking generally includes an overnight stay, with the flight counted among the travel costs. She will meet you in your hotel room or at your residence, never anywhere else without prior agreement, since we only work outcall; an article on the subject explains why.
The fee reflects the duration and the companion, plus travel costs on every booking, and each figure is published on our rates page. Choose from the gallery, or describe your trip and the agency will put forward the right companion. When the dates are fixed, get in touch.
