Belgrade: Food Tour with Market Tastings & Street Art Walk

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Duration3h 30m

GroupUp to 12

LanguagesEN · HE

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Belgrade flavors from markets to bakeries with local stories

You’ll wander Belgrade’s neighborhoods tasting burek, goulash, cheeses, and rakia as your guide shares stories between stops at bakeries, markets, and street art corners. Expect laughter over new flavors, chats with local sellers, and an easy finish near Old Town — you might leave full but still curious.

3h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Belgrade food and culture

Visit hidden design zone and Yugoslavian exhibits
Join walking tour with food and drink tastings
Discover local street art and nightlife spots
Taste food and meet sellers at old market
End tour with drinks at local bar

The Experience

Someone hands me a flaky burek, still warm — I try not to burn my fingers but end up licking cheese off my thumb anyway. Our guide, Ana, laughs and says that’s the only right way to start a food tour in Belgrade. We’re standing outside a bakery where the smell of fresh bread mixes with the city’s morning chill. There’s this old guy at the counter who nods when Ana orders in Serbian; I think he approves of our choices. It feels like everyone here knows each other, or at least acts like it.

We wind through little alleys painted with wild street art (some of it’s honestly better than what you see in galleries), stopping now and then for tiny cups of strong coffee or to try cured meats that taste smoky and rich. At the old market, I’m offered something called čvarci — crispy pork rinds — which I nearly drop because they’re greasier than I expected but weirdly addictive. The sellers joke with Ana about tourists’ faces when they try rakia for the first time. She pours us just enough to make my cheeks warm; apparently it’s rude to refuse.

Lunch is goulash with some twist I can’t quite name — maybe paprika? — and soft village cheese that melts if you hold it too long. There’s honey so floral it almost tastes like spring air, and truffle spreads that make me wish I had bread left. Someone starts playing music nearby and for a minute nobody talks, just listens and chews. We finish near Belgrade Old Town where Ana scribbles down extra restaurant names for us on a napkin (I still have it folded in my bag). The light is softer here, and I’m not sure if it’s the food or the city or both that makes me want to linger.

What’s included

Your day includes guided walks through Belgrade neighborhoods with plenty of stops for tastings: burek pastries hot from the bakery oven, cured meats at an old market stall, village cheeses and honey products, goulash for lunch plus coffee or tea — even a taste of rakia if you’re of age. All drinks (alcoholic or not) are included along with bottled water so you won’t go thirsty between bites before ending up near Old Town.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by Belgrade Get To know The City