Mesopotamia is coming to Brăila Plaza

Mesopotamia, the Romanian fast-food restaurant chain founded in Suceava in 2010, is coming to Brăila Plaza, the retail park developed, built and operated by NestPlus at Strada Industriei 17M in Brăila. The park opens on 3 December 2026.

The restaurant will be in the park's food court, which has terraces, alongside Spartan, while Burger King adds a drive-thru. Around them, Brăila Plaza brings together home and DIY stores, discount stores, fashion and footwear, health and beauty, and a fitness club, next to the Kaufland and Lidl stores already open on the site. The name will be familiar to people in Brăila: the restaurant list on Mesopotamia's website already includes a unit in the city, and the new restaurant extends the brand's presence in Brăila.

Mesopotamia's story began in 2010 in Suceava, where entrepreneur Sebastian Tătărîngă, the company's founder and CEO, opened the network's first restaurant. "We didn't know then how far we would go," he said in October 2026, as the brand marked 16 years. The network is run by Set Corporation and has grown only through restaurants it operates itself, with no franchising. The company says this gives it integrated control over product quality, food safety, logistics and staff training.

From the start, the core product has been rotisserie turkey, served with freshly cut vegetables in panino bread baked every day in each restaurant from dough that has never been frozen. Today's menu covers doner, piatto, rolls, boxes, pizza and salads. In 2024, after 14 years built around rotisserie turkey, Mesopotamia added rotisserie chicken. Alongside the main menu, the brand has developed the Meso Café concept, with coffee specialities, lemonade and pancakes, and Meso Kids areas designed for families.

In August 2015, the restaurant opened in Ploiești Shopping City was the chain's 12th, at a time when Mesopotamia was present in cities including Bucharest, Suceava, Iași, Bacău, Brașov, Galați, Craiova, Constanța and Târgu Jiu. By September 2019 the network had reached 32 restaurants in 16 cities, and by June 2021 it had 45, after the company kept opening restaurants through the pandemic. On 17 December 2021, Mesopotamia opened its first restaurant outside Romania, at the Westend shopping centre in Budapest, followed by a second one at Etele Mall.

The network passed 60 restaurants in June 2023, and in October 2024 it had 70 units in Romania and two in Budapest. The latest figures published by the company, from October 2026, put Mesopotamia at 90 restaurants, 88 in Romania and two in Budapest, with more than 1,700 employees. The company reported turnover of 371.7 million lei for 2024, and for 2025 it reports combined turnover of around 90 million euro from its operations in Romania and Hungary. Its stated plans are to strengthen its presence in Romania and expand into international markets, with investment in people, technology and infrastructure.

At Brăila Plaza, Mesopotamia brings a format that shoppers already know from malls and retail parks in many Romanian cities. The restaurant list on the brand's website already includes units in retail parks in Bârlad, Roman and Zalău. For people who come to shop, that means a quick meal a few steps from the stores, in a food court with terraces, alongside Spartan and Burger King.