The country is famous for its beautiful cuisine, and Serbs, like many other nations, are very fond of eating. The main meal for Serb is dinner, so for breakfast they can only drink a cup of espresso (instead of water or tea). By the way, tea in Serbia is used as a drink for illness, and the variety of its varieties here strives for zero.
Since Serbia was on the border of two great empires, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian, local cuisine combined the culinary traditions of these crops: from all kinds of variations of the meat dishes of central Europe and the snacks of the Mediterranean to the sweets and spices of the kitchen of the East. So Serbian food can be described in three words – calorie, satisfying and juicy. We tell you what and where to try.
Fundamentals of Serbian national cuisine
Serbs are perfectly preparing pork
80% of Serbian food is meat (mainly pork), from which dozens of types of sausages, cutlets and chop are made. Three main local meat dishes are Chevapchichi/ ćevapčići (pork sausages, sometimes wrapped in bacon, Balkan analogue of Lulya-Kubaba), splash/ Pljeskavica (large chopped pork cutlets, fried on coals) and karajorjev Schitzil /Karađorđeva Šnicla (thick pork sausage with a kaymak filling, fried in panic). Any of these dishes can be bought both in the barbecue on the street of the smallest city, and in Serbian Kafan (cafe with traditional local cuisine), having received some side dish. Keep in mind that the portion will be 2-3 times more European.
The Serbs also have a prshut/pršut (drowned ham, the Serbian analogue of the Parma ham), Sarma/Sarma (Balkan cabbage doucial boots), cululum/kulen (chopped pork sausage with lard and spices), flour/muskalica (a dish from pre -fried meat, extinguished with a stewed with a stewed with a fucked meat. vegetables, rice and boiled potatoes), Viennese shnitzel/bečka Šnicla and Musaka/Musaka (traditional Balkan dish of eggplant or potatoes and meat). With such a variety of meat, our native barbecue are perceived by Serbs as an ordinary fast food, which in the country is not particularly popular (although the Serbs, of course, also have their own barbecue and is called razhanichi/Ražniči).
Salads, soups and a thousand and one snack
Snakes are another niche in which the Serbs are ahead of the planet.
The main salad of Eastern European cuisine is the Chop salad/ ŠPSKA SALATA (a mix of cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, bell pepper and grated cheese like Brynza/ Feta with oil and salt). Next comes the Serbian salad/Srpska Salanta (mix of tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, bell pepper, chili, oil and salt pepper), our beloved olivier/ruska salada, which is also called the “Russian salad” in Serbia, and cabbage salad/kupus salada (fresh cabbage, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil, vegetable oil vinegar, black pepper).
If you forget about salads, soups (for example, Chorba/SHORBA – a delicious stew of meat or fish with vegetables), potatoes, eggplant snacks, beans (for example, Pasulj – the famous Serbian bean soup with vegetables) and kaymak, then the main Serbian appetizer is paprika/PECHENA Paprika (baked or fried on charcoal peppers with butter, vinegar and garlic) and ayvar/ajvar (fried and stove red paprika twisted with tomatoes). It is smeared on bread, meat, side dish or just eaten with spoons from a can. Generally speaking, the Serbs do anything with peppers (this is their national pride) – they bake, salt, pickle and prepare a hundred spin for all relatives and for sale.
Baking and sweets from the Ottoman Empire
This is a separate category of the pleasure of Serbian cuisine, or rather, eastern, since most flour products came from the Ottoman Empire. Such food is considered not a festive, but everyday joy – from early morning in any bakery of the city you can buy a buff you (a puff dough cake with meat, cheese, spinach, cherries and so on, which eat without special ceremonies and drink yogurt), Gibanica (cigarette walnuts, a pie with combs. sour cream, cottage cheese and apples, raisins and poppy), a palanchik/Palanchik (Serbian pancake with homemade jam, fruits or chocolate or traditional – with sweet millet porridge and walnuts), Potitsa (roulettic with a stage/tarhun) or coch/koch (delicate pie from mannered cereals and a mannered cereal whipped cream with sweet milk cream).
As for sweets of a different kind, in Serbia you can also try the delicious Turkish baklava, dried fruits and nuts.
Drinks for every taste and degree
With alcohol, the Serbs have special relations – they drink a lot here and without a twinge of conscience. The business card of Serbia-Rakia/Rakia (40–50-degree fruit tincture, can be plum, honey, quince, cherry, raspberry, pear). To make it convenient to drink from sunset to dawn, the Serbs invented a special dishes – Chokanchichi (glass bubbles with a thick bottom), which can be taken in the hand and dance in the Kafan, without fear of pouring a neighbor and saying loudly: “lived”. A drink with a lower alcohol content, suitable for calm gatherings, is a blackberry wine in which only 4 degrees and not a gram of chemistry.
We occupy a special place in the heart of Serba. There are dozens of different breweries and ghmelly drinks in a seven -billion country. The most famous and tasty brands are behindjar, jolen, nikšićko, and from craft beer – Kabinet Brewery, Kaš, The Black Turtle, Medved Pivnica.
There are non -alcoholic and soft drinks too. For example, the simplest lemonade (water mixed with lemon juice), in which lemon concentration is 80%, and water is 20%. And then coffee, Coca-Cola and mineral water “Prince Milos” go.
The best establishments treX of the main cities of Serbia
Belgrade
1. DVA Jelena is one of the best cafan of the Serbian capital with its own terrace-garden. Order Chorbu, Meso Meso, Pleskavitsa, Chop Salad, Peni Paprika and come to enjoy truly local cuisine. We also advise you to visit the Herceg Novi and more stylish Suvobor more homely and mental kafan.
2. Pretop – a small institution with several street tables in the format “meat, bread and drinks”, founded by cooks – graduates of Belgrade restaurants. Order pork with crispy crust with horseradish and sauerkraut and glass of Krean, and the best aperitif is provided to you.
3. Bloom – a tiny stylish cafe in the very center of the city with European breakfasts before dinner. Here you can take a scramble for Brioshi with avocado, oatmeal with a banana, soaked in Roma, Thai salad with red cabbage, soy and peanuts, and even carrot cupcake.
4. JAM is an elegant restaurant recommended by the Michelin guide, which is not like others. Here is a modest and concise menu, an excellent atmosphere and quite tasty. We also advise you to visit the IVA New Balkan Cuisine, Comunale and Langouste, which also have the recommendation of Michelin and a luxurious view of the Sava River and Brancov Bridge.
5. Šaran is a restaurant for fans of fish and seafood in the historical area of Zemun. We advise you to order sea assorted with pink slices of tuna, a carpaccio from an octopus with a tartar of a scallop and a fragrant fish chorbu, which is brought in a pot. Also visit the Magellan’s luxurious fish restaurant in New Belgrade.
6. Pietra is a place where the delicious Neapolitan pizza is served and classic cocktails prepared according to all the rules. We recommend that you try a tandem of the Speciale and Basilica cocktail pizza.
7. All lovers of enjoying good coffee are advised to visit several local seducts-coffeery-Hotel Beograd, D59b, Kiosk and the first seductance of Belgrade-Pržionica. Take your favorite type of coffee in each and enjoy.
Novy-garden
1. Sweet & Green is a cool salad bar where you can collect the perfect salad of various ingredients. We recommend trying Caesar with truffle sauce and crispy bacon. And later take one of the soups and freshly squeezed juice to choose from.
2. Tramontana – the best pizza in the city, for the sake of which you can and should be booked a table in order to accurately eat at least one Italian masterpiece. We advise you to order pizza with Mortalla and pistachios or with dried tomatoes and delicate cheese.
3. Fish & Zelenish is one of the best restaurants in Serbia with a large selection of seafood dishes. We recommend that you try a carpaccio of tuna and a drado, risotto, home paste with shrimp and a ramp (this dish is not on the menu, so ask the waiter directly).
4. Savoca is a cozy Italian restaurant, where not only a huge amount of pizza and pasta is being prepared, but also Ravioli with cheese under truffle sauce, and turkey turkey sauce with cherry training. The chef of the restaurant was recognized as the best among the cooks of the Italian establishments of Serbia in 2021, so it is worth visiting this place.
5. Gyros Grčki | Caffe Friends is a place with the best giros in the city that a sweet couple holds (they cook and serve everything). The ideal recipe for local giros is a chicken with pork, a lot of dzaziki, tomatoes, green salad and onions. Great food after a noisy night and acquaintance with local parties.
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1. Kafana Meze is the best and most popular kafana in the city. A traditional old interior with wooden beams, straw, paintings and chandeliers like in a castle. We advise here to order a veal under the Sacch and the dessert of Leden Kotsk (similar to bird milk) and enjoy the evening in a classroom interior. Also look at Kod Rajka’s kafana, where it is no less atmospheric and tasty.
2. Comun is a popular gastrobar with a panoramic view of the city in which all the youth niche sits. In the summer, excellent stand-ups are held here. Order here a steak, Pad TAI noodles, brusettes and any cocktail to your taste.
3. Irish Pub is one of the oldest establishments of the city, which is located on the main embankment. On Fridays, it is difficult to find a free table here. They come here to drink good beer, eat a huge portion of Caesar salad with bacon (in Serbia, bacon is added everywhere and everywhere) or a meat plate.
4. Stambolijski -A restaurant in the Serb-Balkan style in the historical building of the city is famous for its traditional cuisine performed by the famous local chef Sasha Mishech. Order any dish from the menu to your taste and wallet and enjoy the atmosphere of southern carelessness.
5. District – A stylish and fashionable loft -style coffee shop, in which you can eat both (breakfasts, sandwiches, salads, tortillas, desserts), and drink coffee, soda, cocktails and alcoholic beverages. We advise you to order a non -alcoholic cocktail Sombrero or Red Pauer in the afternoon and sit at a table on the street to feel the leisureness of the Serbs passing by.
