Student Coupons, the Slovenian Marvelous food system

Hello folks ! 

This post is going to be dedicated to the government meal subsidies for the students, maybe for some of you it's not very interesting, but for me to remember in the future and for those who are coming to Slovenia to study I believe it's quite useful information.

As I was saying, the student coupon system consist basically on a subsidy from to the government to the student to purchase a meal in selected restaurant (the vast majority I can say).

How does the system work? Well you basically have to register with a Slovenian phone number in the SOU (Student Organization) to activate the food coupons. So when you go to the restaurant you have to call 1808 in your phone and validate the coupon on the machine. et voilá, cheap meals for everyone.

You can get as many coupons as school days are. which means basically 20 to 22 coupons per month. 

If you are not much a eating out person, don't worry, the student coupons can be stored up to  3 months.

The price of the meal with the student coupon cost up to 4.5 euros, that means if you are short of money one month you can basically eat for free, or for a couple of euros. Also the a full meal normally consist of one soup, salad, main dish and dessert.

After the jump you can see some pictures of what you can eat in my favorite restaurants in town.

Bistro Sumi, 2.88 euros (Faculty of Social Sciences)

Here you have the restaurant Sumi Bistro, located between the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Administration in Bezigrad. 

You can choose two things among soup, salad and dessert. And then get the main dish. All for 2.88 euros

Appetizers and soup

One of my favorite restaurants the Mexican Joe Peñas, maybe is not the cheapest, but you eat quite well and during the evenings you get half price cocktails just for eating with student coupons. 

Full meal would be 3.88 euros and each cocktail with would be 3 euros average.

Main dish at Joe's, sea food salad.

Well this is not my favourite resturant or anything, but I went once and is not bad for 2.08 euros . You can get all the food like it is showed on the image.

You an choose the soup, mix your own salad (up to 200 gr.) and choose the main dish.

For dessert you can choose between the daily saldica or a yogurt. A bottle of mineral water is provided.

This restaurant is located next to the Maxi Market.

Carneola Pizza

And last but not least, Foculus restaurant ( I will upload more pictures in the following posts.)

It is said that this restaurant serves the best pizza in town, for me is not the best, but very very good.

With the student coupon you get a soup, a pizza or salad of your choice and an apple for dessert.

And all for 3.58

This place is amazing to have dinner specially if you are a large group of people coz is quite big.

All this restaurant accept student coupons, there are many other, that you can find on the website or simply ask other Slovenian students once you get here, it is better to discover yourself.

And obviously, they have regular menu for those who dont have student coupon.

1 abrazo a todos !

Some facts:

Price of meal with student coupon: between 0 and 4.5 euros 

For 2.68 you have a Chinese Buffet in the centre, near the Dragon Bridge

For 4.5 you have Spanish food, not comparable to Spain of course, but from time to time is fine, specially when all the jamón ibérico, queso manchego, lomo have run out already... 

There are veggie restaurant, for meat lovers, some gluten free, 

Indian restaurant, Chinese, Italian, Slovenian, Mexican, Spanish and so on. Plenty of time to try everything

And of course, for those who love fast food, you can eat in the McDonald's a full meal with salad and Sundae included for 2.08 euros, and also Kebap for less than 1 euro.