My favorite brunch places with big, shady gardens to cool off during the hot summer days
There are several restaurants Smokvica. Very popular. Different menus but all of them have in common that restaurants are in private houses with big city gardens. I recommend those in Gospodar Jovanova and Molerova.
36 locals recommend
Smokvica
45, 11000 Gospodar JovanovaThere are several restaurants Smokvica. Very popular. Different menus but all of them have in common that restaurants are in private houses with big city gardens. I recommend those in Gospodar Jovanova and Molerova.
One of the first places opened by Russian immigrants who left Russia for Belgrade. Now one of the many. At the beginning it was a meeting point for people who settled in Belgrade and called it a home and now a very popular restaurant, especially for brunch.
Birds
One of the first places opened by Russian immigrants who left Russia for Belgrade. Now one of the many. At the beginning it was a meeting point for people who settled in Belgrade and called it a home and now a very popular restaurant, especially for brunch.
For those familiar with a concept. Big plus is a rooftop view. Perfect for lazy days.
Mama Shelter Belgrade
For those familiar with a concept. Big plus is a rooftop view. Perfect for lazy days.
Very interesting small bites. A sort of a fusion of a contemporary recipes and Indian food.
8 locals recommend
Miamiam Restaurant & Catering
39 KursulinaVery interesting small bites. A sort of a fusion of a contemporary recipes and Indian food.
On a weekends people gathers around Kalenić green market to buy fresh groceries and meet friends without needing to make prearrangement. You will meet someone for sure and than go for a coffee or brunch in Nevesinjska street.
15 locals recommend
Homa Bistrot
11 NevesinjskaOn a weekends people gathers around Kalenić green market to buy fresh groceries and meet friends without needing to make prearrangement. You will meet someone for sure and than go for a coffee or brunch in Nevesinjska street.
Only breakfast and brunch are served. All the bestsellers and menu is regularly renewed. No smoking inside, real rarity.
6 locals recommend
Bloom
23 Gospodar-JevremovaOnly breakfast and brunch are served. All the bestsellers and menu is regularly renewed. No smoking inside, real rarity.
Nice place to relax and to have something to eat. Great for brunch.
17 locals recommend
Dokolica Bistro Vračar
1 Kralja MilutinaNice place to relax and to have something to eat. Great for brunch.
One of those real traditional local places, with cooked, cheap meals
Vuk
12 Vuka KaradžićaThe best of the bunch.
Places you come to when you are hungry. Used to be part of the famous Bermuda's triangle, where only the luckiest souls would find their way back home. Now the only one left.
7 locals recommend
Restoran Grmeč
32 MakedonskaPlaces you come to when you are hungry. Used to be part of the famous Bermuda's triangle, where only the luckiest souls would find their way back home. Now the only one left.
If you can't get a table at Vuk, go further down the street for 30m and sit at Proleće.
55 locals recommend
Proleće
11 Vuka KaradžićaIf you can't get a table at Vuk, go further down the street for 30m and sit at Proleće.
Kalenic
2 MileševskaRestaurant at the Kalenić green market.
Places to hang out
Must be (and see). Trendy restaurants and clubs. Popular to sit in one of the restaurants in the afternoon or to go clubbing.
96 locals recommend
Beton Hala
2 KarađorđevaMust be (and see). Trendy restaurants and clubs. Popular to sit in one of the restaurants in the afternoon or to go clubbing.
Old grain tanks on Danube. Really cool to hang out. You can spend a day in a chaise or at a bar.
Silosi
46 Dunavski kejOld grain tanks on Danube. Really cool to hang out. You can spend a day in a chaise or at a bar.
A small district, located in the center of Belgrade, right next to famous bohemian quarter, Skadarlija, lays Cetinjska, a place the government is planning to tear down for a few years now, and naturally nothing's happening. And while big shots are deciding its fate, Cetinjska hosts some of the best parties in the city in the number of bars located there.
Cetinjska
A small district, located in the center of Belgrade, right next to famous bohemian quarter, Skadarlija, lays Cetinjska, a place the government is planning to tear down for a few years now, and naturally nothing's happening. And while big shots are deciding its fate, Cetinjska hosts some of the best parties in the city in the number of bars located there.
Blaznavac
Campy bar with nice garden.
Multi purpose event space and a club in Savamala. Alternative and arty folks. Handcrafts and art exhibitions, concerts...
66 locals recommend
KC Grad
4 Braće KrsmanovićMulti purpose event space and a club in Savamala. Alternative and arty folks. Handcrafts and art exhibitions, concerts...
Several places across the old Mosque forming a sort of a venue where to hang around. Leila record store, Valentina i karanfilic chocolate bar, Meduza and TT bistro.
11 locals recommend
LEILA Records
6 Gospodar-JevremovaSeveral places across the old Mosque forming a sort of a venue where to hang around. Leila record store, Valentina i karanfilic chocolate bar, Meduza and TT bistro.
Cultural center located in the lower part of Dorćol, the former industrial district. Multidisciplinary art commune open for new forms of art and world trends, education, entertainment, sport and technology.
Flea market, concerts, bars and bistros like Radionica.
28 locals recommend
Dorcol Platz
59, 11000 DobračinaCultural center located in the lower part of Dorćol, the former industrial district. Multidisciplinary art commune open for new forms of art and world trends, education, entertainment, sport and technology.
Flea market, concerts, bars and bistros like Radionica.
CENTRALA
6 SiminaThe way a bar should be.
Caffe "Zona Industriale"
49 NjegoševaOnly if you are cool in Vračar.
PASTIS bistro
52b Strahinjića BanaOnly if you are cool in Dorćol.
Voulez-Vous
52 Đorđa VajfertaRestaurant and sushi bar on the upper floor. Very nice garden.
Na kraj sveta Caffe
Last bar and the most difficult one to reach in Ada lake. Still worth it.
To hang out and enjoy summer breeze in Kalemegdan fortress with a view on a Danube and Sava river.
12 locals recommend
Boho Bar
To hang out and enjoy summer breeze in Kalemegdan fortress with a view on a Danube and Sava river.
Great places to eat
Bib Gourmand by Michelin. Elaborated meals for very reasonable prices.
8 locals recommend
Iva New Balkan Cuisine
11 Kneginje LjubiceBib Gourmand by Michelin. Elaborated meals for very reasonable prices.
Cult Vračar's restaurant now on a rooftop of a Hotel Indigo in Čika Ljubima street.
16 locals recommend
Cveće zla Deli Wine Bar
9 NevesinjskaCult Vračar's restaurant now on a rooftop of a Hotel Indigo in Čika Ljubima street.
Xома
4 Senjanina IveBest fine dining in Belgrade.
Pomodoro
32 HilandarskaGreat Italian food and pizzas.
Game. In translation the Hunter. Cult restaurant. Only drawback is garden covered in plastic tarpaulin.
41 locals recommend
Lovac
19 Alekse NenadovićaGame. In translation the Hunter. Cult restaurant. Only drawback is garden covered in plastic tarpaulin.
JaM
25-27 Knez-MiletinaFusion food, located in Lower Dorćol.
Writer's club. Traditional meeting point for Belgrade's intellectuals. Now intellectuals eat only one meal and are generally living healthier lives. You will feel you need a navy blazer inside. Famous for it's cream pie.
47 locals recommend
Klub književnika
7 FrancuskaWriter's club. Traditional meeting point for Belgrade's intellectuals. Now intellectuals eat only one meal and are generally living healthier lives. You will feel you need a navy blazer inside. Famous for it's cream pie.
Sasa bar
40 Gospodar-JevremovaGood food and best chicks are here in the evening .
If you think you don't like Greek cuisine, come here. Mezze are similar to Spanish tapas. Real Mediterranean bites. Recipes are from Crete.
29 locals recommend
Mezestoran Dvoriste
46 SvetogorskaIf you think you don't like Greek cuisine, come here. Mezze are similar to Spanish tapas. Real Mediterranean bites. Recipes are from Crete.
Mexican restaurant in Beton hala. Always book. More about atmosphere than food.
85 locals recommend
Cantina de Frida
2 KarađorđevaMexican restaurant in Beton hala. Always book. More about atmosphere than food.
Sakura
2-4 KarađorđevaGreat sushi in Beton hala.
Restoran ISTOK
50 Gospodar-JevremovaReally good Vietnamese food.
Where to buy cool souvenirs
Scent of old Belgrade. Oldest working perfumery in Belgrade. Made in store by traditional recipes.
Parfimerija Sava
75 Kralja PetraScent of old Belgrade. Oldest working perfumery in Belgrade. Made in store by traditional recipes.
Beogradski izlog
Official souvenirs store.
Koozmetik
2 VišnjićevaNatural cosmetics
Dechkotzar Flagship Store
T shirts and clothes.
Rakia
5 DobračinaIf you like Rakija... or a friend of yours back home likes it
DEWA store
Hand made chocolate store.
Blatobran Gallery
38 Gospodar JevremovaPottery artistic gallery
Clubs to dance the night away
Club 20/44
Great place. This is Belgrade's nightlife at it's best.
Drugstore Club Beograd
115 Bulevar despota StefanaBig warehouse in an industrial area. Techno. Only by taxi.
Lasta - Gradski splav
bb Sajamski kejGood urban place, electronic music.
Always check what is going on in Barutana, Kalemegdan's old weaponry. Famous Dj's and live bands like Calexico or Miss Kittin.
Barutana
Always check what is going on in Barutana, Kalemegdan's old weaponry. Famous Dj's and live bands like Calexico or Miss Kittin.
Coctails, RNB, disco, deep house. Thursday 'till Sunday. Club is in one of bridge's columns.
28 locals recommend
Brankow
12 CrnogorskaCoctails, RNB, disco, deep house. Thursday 'till Sunday. Club is in one of bridge's columns.
Posh club. Stages the Bank club in the winter and boat Money in the summer. Here you will find best looking chicks.
10 locals recommend
The Bank Club
12 CrnogorskaPosh club. Stages the Bank club in the winter and boat Money in the summer. Here you will find best looking chicks.
A club that opens its doors only for big techno events. Belgrade's Port warehouse.
Hangar Luke Beograd
22 DunavskaA club that opens its doors only for big techno events. Belgrade's Port warehouse.
A really authentic Balkan burrow. Real gypsy place. Here you can get mugged, stabbed or beaten by police as I had twice. Police raids each night. Still you can have great fun, too. If you want much more polished and safe gypsy place go to Crni Panteri (Black Panthers).
Restoran Brodarac
SajmišteA really authentic Balkan burrow. Real gypsy place. Here you can get mugged, stabbed or beaten by police as I had twice. Police raids each night. Still you can have great fun, too. If you want much more polished and safe gypsy place go to Crni Panteri (Black Panthers).
Very popular restaurant with live music in Zemun. Playing new wave, gypsy music, opera arias and everything in between. Really for middle-aged crowd whose kids are finally grown up enough to leave them at home alone. Always book.
22 locals recommend
Река
73b Kej OslobođenjaVery popular restaurant with live music in Zemun. Playing new wave, gypsy music, opera arias and everything in between. Really for middle-aged crowd whose kids are finally grown up enough to leave them at home alone. Always book.
Dorćoleta
Live music and Asian food. Expensive. Always make a reservation
Zappa Bar
41 Kralja PetraFrom rock and blues to Zumba and back
Zappa Baza
Good place with live bands
Good corner food
SMASH BURGERS
50 TakovskaBest burgers and my friends.
Dorćol's only sunny corner. Italian food, sandwiches and Italian products for sale. All Italian place run by Italian owner from Sicily always stressed and sweaty probably because of nostalgia.
15 locals recommend
Eatalian Food Bar Dorćol
47A Gospodar-JevremovaDorćol's only sunny corner. Italian food, sandwiches and Italian products for sale. All Italian place run by Italian owner from Sicily always stressed and sweaty probably because of nostalgia.
Best cakes (try their own Moskva cake). Historic building built in a style of Russian secession. 1908 opening represented a major investment of the Russian Empire in the Kingdom of Serbia economy. One of it's kind.
18 locals recommend
Hotel Moscow
1 BalkanskaBest cakes (try their own Moskva cake). Historic building built in a style of Russian secession. 1908 opening represented a major investment of the Russian Empire in the Kingdom of Serbia economy. One of it's kind.
Majstor i Margarita
12 Vuka KaradžićaBest pizza.
LUFF GELATO Vračar
30 Prote MatejeBest ice cream in Belgrade.
Crna ovca
58 Kralja PetraSecond best ice cream.
Zadruga
43 MakenzijevaFarm-to-table concept.
Restaurant and takeaway and deli in a premises across. French inspired. Situated in Kalenić green market.
Puter
82 NjegoševaRestaurant and takeaway and deli in a premises across. French inspired. Situated in Kalenić green market.
Walter
57 Strahinjića BanaThe most popular place for ćevapčići. Many locations.
Fish & Bar
Fish express restaurant and takeaway.