Belgrade, Serbia

The Balkan metropolis entices travelers with a thriving nightlife scene and a bevy of inventive restaurants.

Tim Chester

BELGRADE’S HISTORY is sketched on its skyline. Stand by the ancient Ottoman strong-hold of Belgrade Fortress in the Old Town, where the Danube meets the Sava River, and scan the horizon. You’ll see a confluence of cultures and epochs: communist-era housing blocks and brutalist skyscrapers in New Belgrade dating to the 1960s and ’70s, and the ochre-tiled roofs of the former Austro-Hungarian riverside town of Zemun. The erstwhile capital of Yugoslavia was a crucial crossroads of Balkan trade, and its enduring blend of Slavic East and cosmopolitan West is most accessible in its food and music. I visited last summer and found several restaurants that could give those in Paris or New York a run for their money—suitably, given that the city has had a Michelin guide since 2021. Standout…

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