Slovak national cuisine was a lot of century influenced by cuisines neighbouring nationes. Mainly from Uhorsko, Austria, Poland and Czech republik and above after the first warm. Many food naturalised with application paprika and rajčina (diferent tipes of stew, paprikáš, perkelt and shaked vegetables - lečo, which come to us from Balkan).
Slovak national gastronomy compose food local and regional. And already typical food of regions shows our cuisine international character, for example-group stew, pirohy stuffed with a sheep cheese, liptovska mutton, gruel from lentils and so on.

Slovaks eat usually three meals a day. For most people, the main meal is lunch which is eaten early in the afternoon. The first course is soup, followed by meat and potatoes or some other hot dish. Slovak people eating to little vegetables. Because parents work and students are at school, the family isn`t together for this meal on weekdays. Most workplaces and schools have a canteen where employees and students can eat. En arere lessed in Slovakia fast foods but nowadays belongs to fast food. People have too little time and it is so easy and quick. But this way of nutrition isn`t healthy. The evening meal is different from family to family, but generally whether hot or cold, it is quite simple. Sunday lunch is a large, home-cooked family meal.

The most traditional meal of the year is the Christmas dinner, eaten in the evening of 24 December. While each family has its own special customs, the basic menu includes wafers with honey – symbolizing a happy life - and garlic - a wish for good health and apple; soup (fish, cabbage, or lentil are most common), carp and potato salad; fruit ;and small honey cakes (medovníky)
Traditional slovak sweets are desserts from rising or buns stuffed with the jam, curd, poppy and nuts. From záhorie came to us Skalický trdelník, which has a form of roll with the hole inside. As a dellicates with wine are very good salty cakes (kapustnik, scab and potato pagáče and so on).

The drink people most often think of as typically Slovak is slivovica (alcohol made from plums). Very specific Slovak desilate is borovička. From liqueurs is very popular Demäňovka but it is only drunk on special accasions. More common drinks are beer, wine, mineral water, strong coffee, weak tea, and Coke. Slovak beer has very good quality, the best badges are - Zlatý bažant, Smädný mních, Topvar or Kelt. In this time has Slovak cuisine international character with more consummation of meat and in lot of towns are for example Italian, chinese and Greek restaurants.