Brits Try SARMA! Authentic SERBIAN Kafana Food in Belgrade, Serbia! 

I’m loving these cutesy traditional Serbian eateries, everyone sounds so nice and lovely ☺️ 👏

Polite, open-hearted, you don't look back on negativity, young, beautiful, you want to see beauty in everything, you are not spoiled, you can drink more than me - amazing people. You deserve everything good that happens to you. Congratulations. Živeli.

Sarma in Serbia is made with lacto-fermented cabbage. Whole heads of white cabbage are salted and left to develop natural lactobacteria and yeasts that produce lactic acid that ferment and pickle the cabbage. Similar to German sour kraut, but with whole heads.

Fact about the Dessert you guys had. Dobosh torte, also known as drum torte or dobos torta, is a Hungarian sponge cake with seven layers of thin cake filled with rich chocolate buttercream, topped with caramel, and sometimes coated with ground hazelnuts, chestnuts, walnuts, or almonds. It's an elegant cake fit for a special occasion. Invented by and named after Hungarian pastry chef Jozsef C. Dobos in 1884.

Thank you for this wonderful report on Serbia. You are wonderful, and I am very glad that you are from England. Serbia is beautiful, wonderful people, history and food.

I'm sorry you can't feel why Belgrade is the first European city for nightlife. You are so tame, kind and acceptable, that if you fell into that mess, madness and life would have the best days of your life. Also, Serbia is first on the list in terms of hospitality. I'm sorry because the situation with the virus also disturbed the city and the people. But I definitely want to say how thrilled I am at how much someone is trying to really show people and explain what they can expect and gain from coming to that country. You are beautiful, and it is exciting to follow you.

That green bridge you were showing in your video is the oldest bridge in Belgrade. It was actually built by Germans in WWII, after they have bombed and destroyed the original bridge (6th April 1941) that was pretty much on the same spot. In October 1944, when Partisans and Red Army were liberating Belgrade, they figured out that Germans were likely to blow up the bridge as they retreated, so a group of partisan commandos was dispatched to try to prevent the demolition of the bridge. They were just ahead of the liberating troops when they reached the bridge, and there they found out that someone had already cut the cables for the explosives in just the right spot. It took some time before it was discovered what had actually happened. An elderly school teacher, who had been a sapper in WWI, lived nearby in a house with a view of the bridge. He had observed German troops positioning explosives and wirings. One night, he went out in a small boat, all alone, and had cut the cables. Here is a clip from the TV series from the 70s, that depicted the fights of the resistance movement in Belgrade during the WWII. In this episode they have told the story of what had happened with the bridge. Unfortunately, there are no English or any other subtitles for this clip: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8tWRbgxaZgM.html

Thanks for these videos guys! Very nice presentation of Sarma and rakia! :D

I am so glad you liked sarma!

Cool videos of the motherland.Thanks to you both. Greetings from London.

Hello from florida I’m from Serbia 🇷🇸 I’m moving to Serbia this year for good

You guys bring tears in my eyes. I'm a Serbian, living in SA, getting ready to go back HOME, and after watch few of your videos about this amazing country of ours, I can't wait to go back. Have fun, and I'm sure you'll never forget it 💗💗

Its midnight now in Serbia and Im hungry for sarma! Lol! Glad you guys enjoyed the Sarma!

You made the point....i Just saw.your faces bfore you tasted It...suspicious a bit...but I knew you're gonna like It..this Is the Land of food🙂Greetings from Belgrade

Wow. Loved the food you have shown in the video. Loved it. Thanks very much.

The flatbread is called lepinja. Pronounced le-pin-ja. And yes it is normal to scoop the sauce with the bread.

It is typically eaten as a main course or third course on festive occasions after appetizer and soup and before roasted meat and dessert. Yes, it is typical winter dish made out of sauerkraut heads(leaves). You should have eaten it with succulent lepinja bread. I usually soak it in sauce. Restaurant you had been looking for is called "?" or "Question mark".

As always you are better each time you're food and drink vlogs are so much more informative

"Zavichai" is a good restaurant, you nailed it. And the sarma there looks veeeery good with "slanina" in it, that is the proper/best way to prepare it - with pieces of cured meat. What I am not used to is the mashed potato with it, but that's how they serve it in most kafanas, though we never have it that way at home.

I have actually made Sarma in summer, used gently boiled cabbage with lemon juice. Not a bad substitute. I also love stuffed grape vine leaves, with the same filling. Really good! I do have to say, I have never had Sarma with mashed potatoes. I have seen it at restaurants, but at home, it's sarma and sarma, 4-5 of them 😂😂😂

Hey Molly n Matt Have a fab weekend. Yummilicious Sarma!!!The cake served as a dessert too looked yummy.Apricot Rakija looked good.Ziveli😍❤😘😍

You made me so hungry😋the food looks yummy, a comfort food😋take care guys🥰

Enjoy the cool winter

Nice Sunday dinner meal. Enjoyed the commentary and watching you 2 eat. Now I'm starving!! Haha.

Have good time in Serbia ☀️👍👌❤️👏🇷🇸😊

You guys are great and honest enjoy your stay in Serbia enjoy the great food... Cheers

Thanks for this wonderful video.

Good food vlog. Nice work, guys. 👍 Cheers and stay safe.

oooh guys what are you doing to me hahaha, this food looked perfect for a dull cold day omg incredible...i am a fan of Matts humour lol x x

Next stop - stuffed paprika/peppers! Food heaven!

Watching you guy's for some time now. Its goed too see nice young couple talking so natural. Serbia is great. Wish you to make more video's about. Greatings from Nederland. God bless you all!

Love you both, bless your red cheeks, while you are on the food subject, I've traveled with a girl some years ago who was studying in the USA for 3 years without being back home, For duration of 2 hours flight from London to Belgrade all she spoke about was missing eating local tomatoes from the market in the summer.LOL.

Sarma is winter food, so...

Foods looks delicious I felt that's yummy 🥘

Sarma is make with SOUR cabbage: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_sour_cabbage This cabbage is prepared in the autumn and you can eat sarma whole winter :) And desert was: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobos_torte

You must also visit Novi Sad. Very nice holiday town. It is about 70 km away from Belgrade ... about an hour and a half drive.

Try kafana question mark -> "kafana ?" That's literally the name of it and it's one of the oldest in Belgrade, also interesting story behind the name

you are two much priveledge to enjoy your journey...philippines is still facing a crisis because of virus...stay safe molly and matt...from Philippines we love u both...

Hello Molly and Matt have a lovely day take care guy’s and always be safe enjoy eating 👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰

Woooow Prelepo 🇷🇸👍🍀☀️👏🍀🍀

I suggest you make some Serbian friends that would then invite you to their home to lunch, so you can try some homemade sarma. Believe me, it is even better then the sarma made in restaurants. And you two are so positive and cute, so open to everything. I enjoy watchinh your videos before falling asleep, so relaxing and interesting.

Proper winter dish it is Matt, so true.

The pickled cabbage leaves give sarma extraordinary taste (I like mine with a spoon of creamy yoghurt on the top). And yes, it's mostly a winter dish (the summer sarma is made with vine leaves mostly). Balkan people drink rakija with salads and other meze/starters, before the main course.

Rakija is appetizer. After sarma you drink špricer (white wine+sparkling water) 😉

Brother,you are slowly starting to look like a real Serb..Which is very nice!

You should also try roasted lamb or pork I haven’t seen you try it yet but find a place where it’s freshly roasted

Enjoy Serbia!

The Dobosh cake is a great pastry.A thought for the Duke of Edinburgh. Good stay in Serbia!

In UK there are many Balkan shops where you can buy already prepared cabbage for sarma and lepinja bread, even gravy for sarma. Doboš Is type of drum.

Best sarma is home made sarma, from Serbian "Slava" festival, and mostly we put also smoked pork ribs or bacon to cook with sarma,

Amazing 👌🌞😊👍

Very nice people with lovely accent! Pozdrav😄

Tumorow you can visit 🐬🐟🐠Ada ciganlija lake in Belgrade,ther will be lot a of people...

Can you two try to visit Royal complex in Belgrade ( new and old White Castle - Beli Dvor) where king and Queen lives. Is tour still possible?

Sarma is fantastic, you were not wrong. When you are already there, it would be a pity not to visit Lepenski vir, the first human settlement in Europe. It will surely be interesting for your companions. Greetings and all the best.

Only when you come to Serbia🇷🇸 you find what real and delicious food is!!! They aren't too many strong spices but it still a delicious and juicy dish especially meat!!! Just Salt and pepper and maybe some Vegeta (dry spice) and that's all from the spices!!! Greetings from Serbia!!!🍻

Sarma, commonly marketed as stuffed grape leaves, is a type of dolma-a stuffed dish of the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire from the Middle East to Southeastern Europe-comprising vine, cabbage, monk's rhubarb, kale or chard leaves rolled around a filling of grains (like bulgur or rice), minced meat, or both.

Reason restaurants don’t have Saran you have to have sour cabbage to make it and cabbage sits in salt water for at least 30days to get sour that’s usually done in winter time because it has to sit in a cold place

You should try fasting sarma which is made with wine leaf instead of cabbage and it goes best with sour cream or milk . (Posna sarma)

Go to the hotel Moskva(moscow) and try Moskva cake(pineapple and sour cherry fruit cake)

Comfort food!

Hope you're going to visit Novi Sad, but the weather will be shitty next few days.

hey guys. you got vaccine? I think you can get one in Serbia as foreigners, if you are interested (just ask which one is available)

Flat bread is called SOMUN and u should thry USTIPCI from meanced meat its grill Dobos cake translation is drum cake cake with rithm🎂😁And ofc when u go to Vojvonina Novi Sad go out of the town find local kafanas and get FISH PAPRIKASH its ofc u would say fish stew but not even close u never eat that yet. u will be delighet

If you still want traditional cuisine you could try "Old Hercegovina" restaurant. Of course if you haven't yet. It's not that far from Skadarlija. Cheers !

How are you guys liking belgrade in general?

great Video again. i recoment Uvac, the iron gate and golubac fortress, Negotinske prerast, Stopic cave and area around zlatiobor. Zlatobor center is actually just a place to stay not that pritty but you can make a lot adventured. the nature around is great. Mokra gora, tara national park...citys Novi Sad, Nis, Subotica, Sombor,...have fun

Really difficult to choose if the menu wasn't English written,n the weather quite not nice, but still lovely to see you, stay safe, love u both❤️

Well, what can I say. First you killed me with rakija, now sarma. I wish I can fly over to Somerset (from IRE) and hit you back with proper english breakfast, then carvery lunch in a proper village in. Enjoy your stay there, have fun, explore. Looking forward to seeing your next steps, absolutely yes, time to leave Belgrade and see what else is there. Did you try ajvar?

Thank you for all the videos about my city, you are really quite pair i am new subscriber, my advise you may go to south Niš Leskovac Vranje even better food and cheaper.

Are you looking for "Mornar" kafana? It's actually 100 meters behind you at 03:37.

Sarmaaaaaa 🤤🤤

Omg I am so hungry right now 🤤 Have to get up and eat again 🙄🤦‍♂️😁

A small note, maybe someone has already mentioned it. Sarma is made exclusively from sauerkraut leaves. And if you have time, wait for better weather and rent a car and go on the road, so you will visit other cities in Serbia, Serbia is not just Belgrade. Enjoy though I would recommend you to come when the virus passes and when the weather gets better.

Proper way of consuming sarma would be just straight sarma with the bread. No potatoes, mashed or not! You could take some “kiselo mleko” with it, it’s kind of like greek yogurt.

When it comes to cabbage, it is interesting that most people do not eat cabbage but separate the cabbage from the meat. The charm is in cooking meat in a cabbage wrapper.

Sarma, it is a symbiosis of flora and fauna.

The best sarma is made at home. They're smaller and (to me) more tasteful when someone makes sarmas at home. But, Karadjordjeva snicla, cevapi, pljeskavica... are better in restaurants. We usually don't eat it with mashed potatoes, I've seen that only in restaurants.

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Oh you two are proper cute goofs.

добош торта - drum cake

Sarma ❤️😘🌞😊👍👌

Cabbage is top supper food especially sour cabbage.

Sarma is not only serbian authentic, because in Bulgaria we have the same sarma a nd the name is the same.

Hi from another Brit! are you guys still in belgrade?

Fun fact, Serbians eat a lot of bread. Sarma goes with bread always. Lol.

Did they give you two pieces of bread?

come to macedonia vevcani

You know they are English..they hold fork with right hand 😊

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Dobos torta is Hungarian en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobos_torte

Hahah rakija snob

oo, good food but this place is expensive.

your boyfriend prefers rakija and beer to you... believe me 🤭

Sarma is traditional Jewish food that goes back to Babylonian empire. When Jews were exiled in Babylon they started to prepare sarma with wine leaves. Then they brought it back to Israel, but when they were exiled in AD 70 by Romans, they took it to Arabia, Africa and than Spain. In 15th century they were expelled by Spanish inquisition from Spain all over Europe, but when they arrived to Hungary they discovered cabbage. From there they moved to Serbia and the rest is history.

Where is next stop

Dobosh cake is from Hungary

Eating Sarma in the restaurant is not even close to the taste of home made Sarma. But before eating sarma you have to try 15 years old plum rakia and after that you have to eat meat soup ,sarma , roast pork on open fire. All meals are made on open fire or BBQ and after all of that is time for traditional Serbian sweet food. Same of home made cakes. That is tradional Serbian lunch.

Dobos cake is Hungarian.