Delicious Food
Serbian national cuisine reflects strong Turkish, Hungarian, and Austrian influence, particularly in a wide range of grilled meat available. In Serbia, one should not miss to taste traditional specialties, like kebab ("cevapcici"), bread meat patties ("fasirane snicle"), mixed meat ("mesano meso"), Karadjordje escalope ("Karadjordjeva snicla"), stuffed peppers ("punjena paprika"), musaka, or stuffed grape leaves ("sarma"). In addition, unique appetizers, such as ajvar, thick jam ("slatko"), clotted cream ("kajmak"), or cornbread ("proja"), as well as delicious baked delights (cheese pie-"gibanica", for example) are warmly recommended. An abundance of fruit grown in Serbia represents a raw base for excellent alcoholic drinks. Plums, apricots, pears, apples, grapes, and other are distilled into a brandy, known as "rakija", while local beer and wine are also worth tasting.
Belgrade abounds with restaurants, cafes and bars for all tastes. Most of the international cuisine is Italian, but one can also enjoy French, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian, and other national cuisine. Some of the world's largest fast food chains are also present in Serbia-the example of McDonald's that opened its first restaurant in Belgrade in the late 1980s, recently followed by Pizza Hut.
Menus of Belgrade restaurants are in Serbian, but they usually contain translation to one of major world languages. If you address your waiter in one of these languages, in most restaurants you will be understood. Usual working hours of the restaurants are from 8am to 11pm, but some are open from noon to 1am.
Contact details of Belgrade's restaurants are available at: www.tob.co.yu.
