Slovakia’s first ruin bar: a café, bar and restaurant in Count Limpacher’s 500-year-old palace.
It was founded by Milan and Veronika Kabina with the help of family and friends, who put in hundreds of volunteer hours here. As the owners like to say with a smile, everything in the interior apart from the fireplace stove and the terrace seating is the work of world-famous designers.
Welcome to the last surviving Renaissance palace house in Banská Štiavnica. We won’t bore you with rehearsed lines about its history and rulers. The bar and restaurant are on the main square of Banská Štiavnica, on the ground floor of the Renaissance Limpacher Palace. RUINbar has been set up in the original rooms in authentic ruin-bar style, with as little renovation as possible, so that you can admire the original architecture in its original state. It has a variety of stylish spaces: a bar, a gateway passage, a courtyard, a cellar and a terrace right beneath the Baroque Holy Trinity Column. It offers a wide range of drinks, cocktails, beers and regional wines, along with bistro-style European cuisine.
If you love original, photogenic decor, we recommend a visit to an unusual spot: the ladies’ and gents’ toilets. In the ladies’ you’ll find a bicycle built into the washbasin unit, while in the gents’ the washbasin and urinal are made from a genuine beer barrel straight from the nearby Steiger brewery (in the village of Vyhne). In the same building you’ll also find the ‘Infinitorium’ mirror illusions and ‘Journey Through Time’, an interactive way to discover mining history.
