Stefan's Guidebook

Stefan
Stefan's Guidebook

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 Jovanova
36 locals recommend
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.
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 Kursulina
8 locals recommend
Very 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 Nevesinjska
15 locals recommend
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.
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-Jevremova
6 locals recommend
Only 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 Milutina
17 locals recommend
Nice place to relax and to have something to eat. Great for brunch.

One of those real traditional local places, with cooked, cheap meals

The best of the bunch.
28 locals recommend
Vuk
12 Vuka Karadžića
28 locals recommend
The 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 Makedonska
7 locals recommend
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.
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 Karadžića
55 locals recommend
If you can't get a table at Vuk, go further down the street for 30m and sit at Proleće.
Restaurant at the Kalenić green market.
38 locals recommend
Kalenic
2 Mileševska
38 locals recommend
Restaurant 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 Karađorđeva
96 locals recommend
Must 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 kej
Old 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, Beograd, Serbia
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.
Campy bar with nice garden.
59 locals recommend
Blaznavac
59 locals recommend
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 Krsmanović
66 locals recommend
Multi 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-Jevremova
11 locals recommend
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.
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 Dobračina
28 locals recommend
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.
The way a bar should be.
28 locals recommend
CENTRALA
6 Simina
28 locals recommend
The way a bar should be.
Only if you are cool in Vračar.
Caffe "Zona Industriale"
49 Njegoševa
Only if you are cool in Vračar.
Only if you are cool in Dorćol.
27 locals recommend
PASTIS bistro
52b Strahinjića Bana
27 locals recommend
Only if you are cool in Dorćol.
Restaurant and sushi bar on the upper floor. Very nice garden.
32 locals recommend
Voulez-Vous
52 Đorđa Vajferta
32 locals recommend
Restaurant and sushi bar on the upper floor. Very nice garden.
Last bar and the most difficult one to reach in Ada lake. Still worth it.
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
12 locals recommend
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 Ljubice
8 locals recommend
Bib 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.
17 locals recommend
Cveće zla Deli Wine Bar
9 Nevesinjska
17 locals recommend
Cult Vračar's restaurant now on a rooftop of a Hotel Indigo in Čika Ljubima street.
Best fine dining in Belgrade.
25 locals recommend
Xома
4 Senjanina Ive
25 locals recommend
Best fine dining in Belgrade.
Great Italian food and pizzas.
39 locals recommend
Pomodoro
32 Hilandarska
39 locals recommend
Great 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 Nenadovića
41 locals recommend
Game. In translation the Hunter. Cult restaurant. Only drawback is garden covered in plastic tarpaulin.
Fusion food, located in Lower Dorćol.
JaM
25-27 Knez-Miletina
Fusion 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 Francuska
47 locals recommend
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.
Good food and best chicks are here in the evening .
Sasa bar
40 Gospodar-Jevremova
Good 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 Svetogorska
29 locals recommend
If 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 Karađorđeva
85 locals recommend
Mexican restaurant in Beton hala. Always book. More about atmosphere than food.
Great sushi in Beton hala.
33 locals recommend
Sakura
2-4 Karađorđeva
33 locals recommend
Great sushi in Beton hala.
Really good Vietnamese food.
6 locals recommend
Restoran ISTOK
50 Gospodar-Jevremova
6 locals recommend
Really 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 Petra
Scent of old Belgrade. Oldest working perfumery in Belgrade. Made in store by traditional recipes.
Official souvenirs store.
Beogradski izlog
Official souvenirs store.
Natural cosmetics
Koozmetik
2 Višnjićeva
Natural cosmetics
T shirts and clothes.
Dechkotzar Flagship Store
T shirts and clothes.
If you like Rakija... or a friend of yours back home likes it
14 locals recommend
Rakia
5 Dobračina
14 locals recommend
If you like Rakija... or a friend of yours back home likes it
Hand made chocolate store.
DEWA store
Hand made chocolate store.
Pottery artistic gallery
Blatobran Gallery
38 Gospodar Jevremova
Pottery artistic gallery

Clubs to dance the night away

Great place. This is Belgrade's nightlife at it's best.
17 locals recommend
Club 20/44
17 locals recommend
Great place. This is Belgrade's nightlife at it's best.
Big warehouse in an industrial area. Techno. Only by taxi.
20 locals recommend
Drugstore Club Beograd
115 Bulevar despota Stefana
20 locals recommend
Big warehouse in an industrial area. Techno. Only by taxi.
Good urban place, electronic music.
10 locals recommend
Lasta - Gradski splav
bb Sajamski kej
10 locals recommend
Good 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 Crnogorska
28 locals recommend
Coctails, 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 Crnogorska
10 locals recommend
Posh 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 Dunavska
A 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
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).
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 Oslobođenja
22 locals recommend
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.
Live music and Asian food. Expensive. Always make a reservation
Dorćoleta
Live music and Asian food. Expensive. Always make a reservation
From rock and blues to Zumba and back
Zappa Bar
41 Kralja Petra
From rock and blues to Zumba and back
Good place with live bands
Zappa Baza
Good place with live bands

Good corner food

Best burgers and my friends.
SMASH BURGERS
50 Takovska
Best 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-Jevremova
15 locals recommend
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.
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 Balkanska
18 locals recommend
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.
Best pizza.
9 locals recommend
Majstor i Margarita
12 Vuka Karadžića
9 locals recommend
Best pizza.
Best ice cream in Belgrade.
LUFF GELATO Vračar
30 Prote Mateje
Best ice cream in Belgrade.
Second best ice cream.
60 locals recommend
Crna ovca
58 Kralja Petra
60 locals recommend
Second best ice cream.
Farm-to-table concept.
Zadruga
43 Makenzijeva
Farm-to-table concept.
Restaurant and takeaway and deli in a premises across. French inspired. Situated in Kalenić green market.
Puter
82 Njegoševa
Restaurant and takeaway and deli in a premises across. French inspired. Situated in Kalenić green market.
The most popular place for ćevapčići. Many locations.
74 locals recommend
Walter
57 Strahinjića Bana
74 locals recommend
The most popular place for ćevapčići. Many locations.
Fish express restaurant and takeaway.
Fish & Bar
Fish express restaurant and takeaway.