
In 2014, Cristina and Mihai Negoț left Bucharest for the Buzău Valley with five beehives they'd received as a wedding gift. Out of those grew Primitiv Foods — honey first, then jars of raw honey with dried fruit and nuts, made in their Pătârlagele workshop, opened in 2017. The mead idea came from a trip to London: there they tasted a different kind of mead — fresh, lightly sparkling, just 5% alcohol — nothing like the heavy, sweet drink they knew. In 2022 they launched Romania's first low-alcohol mead, fermented from their own bees' honey, with nothing artificial added. In February 2024 their mead took gold at the Mead Madness Cup in Poland — the world's biggest mead competition. At the conac you'll find it by the glass alongside the Farm-to-Table menu, and by the bottle in our shop.