Making Pita at the Oreov Lad

We visited the Restaurant Oreov Lad in order to learn how to make pita: a traditional Macedonian pastry. Filled with savory ingredients like cheese and spinach, twisted into a spiral shape, and baked to flaky perfection, pita is almost as much fun to watch being prepared as it is to eat. Almost.

An institution in the Skopje suburb of Saraj, the Oreov Lad has been around since the days of the Ottoman Empire. It was once an inn for wandering traders, and exists today as a raucous Macedonian rest...