Awarded certificates of the special standard "Pag on the menu"

Pag on the menu, is a great new tourist story of Pag. It is a special standard "Pag on the menu" which aims to brand the local and regional eno and gastronomic offer of the island of Pag. 

In the Duke's Palace in Pag, the Pag gastronomic event was opened, on the menu of which awarded marks of a special standard of the traditional cuisine of the island of Pag - Pag on the menu.

The labels were awarded to the restaurants Na Tale and Na Katine, the Wine&Chess bar Trapula from the town of Pag, and the tavern Divlja maslina from the Kolan area.

The Pag on the Menu project was introduced to the attendees by Bartula Kašić Secondary School teacher Ljiljana Martinović and Vesna Karavanić, director of the Pag City Tourist Board. The winners were congratulated by Mihaela Kadija, director of the Zadar County Tourist Board, who emphasized the value of this project and supported Bartula Kašić Secondary School and the Pag City Tourist Board, stating that the presentation of the Zadar County's gastronomic offer is unimaginable without Pag.

The opening was attended by the President of the City Council Jasna Magaš, the Director of the Kolan Municipality Tourist Board Sabina Sabalić, and representatives of companies, the city administration, and institutions.

An exhibition of photographs by the Pag Photo Club entitled Taste of the Island - Eye of the Island was set up in the Rector's Palace, and members of the Družina Cultural Association danced on Petra Krešimir IV Square. Visitors could view and purchase products from the Pag Saltworks, Pag Cheese Factory, the Benedictine Monastery of St. Margaret and the Bartula Kašić Salt Cooperative, which carry the HOP - Croatian Island Product label. Numerous guests and visitors also enjoyed Pag specialties at promotional prices in restaurants and taverns accompanied by a Dalmatian klapa band in a điru.

"Today, together with the Bartula Kašić Secondary School and representatives of catering establishments from the area of ​​the City of Pag and Kolan, we awarded certificates of a special standard of traditional cuisine of the island of Pag - Pag on a menu that offers local, indigenous dishes and drinks and meets the prescribed criteria of the public call. The Tourist Board of the City of Pag continuously works on promoting the gastronomic offer, as evidenced by numerous presentations of Pag brands and specialties, and the rich tradition and quality of Pag cheese, lamb, cottage cheese, salt, baškotin, štrik, rafijole are recognized in Croatia and abroad. This is also our motivation to continue working on creating a recognizable and quality tourist product in cooperation with catering establishments, companies, OPGs, Bartula Kašić Secondary School and other stakeholders.", she said Vesna Karavanić, director of the Tourist Board of the City of Pag, adding that the project "Pag on the Menu" was created based on the long-term work of students and employees of the Bartul Kašić Secondary School on the preservation and revitalization of the traditional cuisine of our island. Thus, in cooperation with the tourist boards of the entire island and the associations of craftsmen of Pag and Novalja, a special standard was created that prescribes the conditions that applicants must meet in order to become certificate holders.

The aim of the standard/project is to promote the traditional gastronomy of the island of Pag based on the event and recipe booklet "Ca, ça, what used to be cooked on my island" by the Bartul Kašić Pag High School, which has been bringing back from oblivion somewhat neglected old island dishes since 2007; promoting and raising the attractiveness of catering professions and preserving the intangible heritage of the island of Pag. This standard branded the traditional island cuisine and gave the island of Pag a new gastronomic product.

"After the awarding of certificates, visitors were able to visit the sales stand of our Slani Škoj Student Cooperative, where hard-working cooperative members sold some of their products, the most interesting of which were our recipe booklet "Ca, ča, what was once cooked on our island" and Pag lace jewelry (both products are also holders of the Croatian Island Product - HOP label), and watch a performance by some of our students in the Družina Cultural and Artistic Association.", concludes Karavanić. 

Holders of the "Pag on the menu" label:

• Area of ​​the Town of Pag: Konoba Bile, Bodulo, Didova kuća, Restaurant Na Tale, Bistro Na Katine, Wine and cheese bar Trapula
• Area of ​​the Kolan Municipality: Tavern Bonaca, Figurica, OPG Prtorić and Wild Olive
• Area of ​​the City of Novalja: Tavern Težak

The gastronomic event Pag on the Menu is organized by the Tourist Board of the City of Pag and under the auspices of the Tourist Board of Zadar County and Zadar County.

📸: Secondary School B: Kašića Pag and Tourist Board of the Town of Pag