Michelin in Serbia

It’s not that we ever lacked good food, but it certainly feels good when someone with a global reputation comes along and says: “Yes, this is a place worth sitting down to dine.” In the MICHELIN Guide Belgrade 2026, there are 25 recommended restaurants in total – two addresses with one star, three bearing the Bib Gourmand distinction, and another twenty listed as “Selected”, praised for their quality and consistency. And when Michelin says the scene has grown and five new restaurants have been added, it sounds as if the city has gained another terrace – this time, a terrace of flavours. For travellers, that’s excellent news: instead of wandering “from corner to corner”, you’re handed a map where the flavours are already marked, and all you have to do is choose the rhythm – a gala dinner, a bistro-style evening conversation, or a lunch that convinces you to extend your stay by at least one more day.

If a Michelin star is a kind of quiet medal, then Langouste and Fleur de Sel are precisely the kind you don’t wear on your lapel, but carry in your memory. Langouste is located in Belgrade, on the edge of the old city core, with a view that blends the river with the city’s modern skyline. Its cuisine is precise and contemporary, yet firmly rooted in local produce and tradition – with French-Italian discipline in its stride and unmistakable Belgrade charm in its smile. Michelin lists it as One Star: High quality cooking, which really says it all – except that you’ll probably want to experience it again, at least once more, just to be sure.

Then comes Fleur de Sel, in Novi Slankamen, like a pleasant excursion that turns into a story you can’t wait to tell your friends. Here too, the verdict is the same: One Star: High quality cooking. The setting, the vineyards, the Danube shimmering in the distance, and a kitchen that combines top-level techniques with local ingredients – all together, they prove that great gastronomy isn’t created only in metropolises, but also in places where nature has the time to explain flavour.

For those who like to eat smartly (without looking as if they’re keeping an Excel spreadsheet of satisfaction), there’s Bib Gourmand – the mark for “good quality, good value cooking”. In Belgrade, Iva New Balkan Cuisine and Bela Reka stand out in particular. Iva is a bistro where the recipes are “patriotic”, yet modernised just enough to make tradition feel fresh. Michelin highlights precisely this idea of classic flavours presented in a contemporary way, along with the warm, unpretentious atmosphere.

Bela Reka tells a different story: Serbian cuisine with broad shoulders, grounded in local and regional ingredients, and closely connected to its producers (and its own farm). It’s a place where a portion is not a whisper but a full sentence, and where “homemade” is not an excuse but a standard. Michelin explicitly lists it in the 2026 selection as a new Bib Gourmand in Belgrade.

To complete the picture, Serbia’s Bib Gourmand family also includes Istok, with its recognisable Asian cuisine. The selection therefore spans modern Balkan flavours, generous tradition, and the Far East – perfect both for evenings when you want “something new” and for those when you crave “something of our own, but at its very best”.

And now for the most enjoyable part – the “others”, who are anything but “just others”. These are twenty addresses where Michelin says: this is seriously good food. In Belgrade, the list includes new additions such as Suvenir (on a floating restaurant/houseboat, where tradition is served alongside the river), the elegantly hotel-style Prime, the charming bistro Puter, as well as S5 by Angie and Restaurant 27 – all five newly added to the selection.

Then there are the tried-and-tested places for every mood: creative, “special occasion” experiences like Homa and Salon 1905; the panoramic SkyLounge; the classic rhythm of Legat 1903; the maritime discipline of Gušti mora; the urban precision of The Square; more contemporary bites at Pinòt; an international flair at The Twenty Two; Japanese orderliness at Ebisu; European elegance at L’Adresse; Italian lightness at Comunale Caffè e Cucina; and Belgrade institutions of flavour such as Klub Književnika by Branko Kisić and Na Ćošku. Add Mezestoran Dvorište and Magellan, and you have a beautiful, reliable map: wherever you go, it’s hard to make a wrong choice – and that, you’ll agree, is the finest luxury when travelling.