Belgrade Nightlife

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My friend and I visited the Three Carrots Irish Pub one evening during a visit to Belgrade in May 2007.

This Irish bar, the first Guinness pub in Belgrade according to a sign on one of the walls, first came to my attention when I was researching our Belgrade trip on the Internet. I read an article which suggested that the bar’s unusual name came about due to a mistranslation. Apparently, the owners of the bar had wanted to name it after the famous Irish symbol, the shamrock (or three leaf clover). However, confusion arose somewhere along the line and three leaf clover became “three carrots”. I don’t know if this story is true, but it was enough to convince me that we should pay a visit to this quirky place.

The Three Carrots is located on Kneza Milosa, a side street off the main road of Kralja Milana, and is 5-10 minutes walk north west of Slavija Square.

The pub’s interior consists of a large wooden bar, with a handful of wooden stools pulled up to it, and two or three large tables in separate cubicles next to the bar. Also on the ground floor, there is an area with a dozen or so 2 seater tables, next to a spiral staircase that leads to a large upstairs seating area.

There are a few items of Irish memorabilia (flags, shirts, Guinness sponsored mirrors…) and the wall opposite the bar features a rather elaborate Guinness decoration featuring the claim to be the “First Guinness Pub in Belgrade”.

Music plays in the background, while a couple of TV screens were showing highlights of the day’s football action from across Europe.

While the pub offers Guinness on tap, we preferred to stick to the local beer. The waitress brought our draught MB Pils beers (115 Dinars / 1.00 GBP for 500ml) to our table, and re-appeared each time she could see that we were nearing the end of our drinks to ask if we wanted another one. It would have been rude to decline, and it was the final night of our Balkans trip, so we stayed until closing time, which may have been about 2am (but I can’t promise that to be the case!).

Dress Code: No dress code apparent.

A friendly Irish bar in the centre of Belgrade. Recommended!

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My friend and I visited Plato Café one Saturday evening during our visit to Belgrade in May 2007.

It was our first night in Belgrade and we were looking for a café with outdoor tables where we could enjoy a cold beer on a very warm and humid spring evening. We had earlier visited La Revolucion Cuban bar, but all its outdoor tables were occupied and it was too warm to sit inside. So, we crossed the pedestrianised Kneza Mihailova and spotted Plato’s red umbrellas and spacious outdoor seating area close to Studentski Trg (Students Square).

This incredibly relaxed café/bar was busy, but not completely full. However, all of the comfortable reclining seats (similar to those you would find on a beach) were filled with smart young locals, so we settled for a standard table and chairs!

We didn’t see the interior of Plato, but we could see from where we were sat that there was a restaurant area and a book shop forming part of the varied Plato complex. I read an online review of Plato which states that the restaurant serves excellent Italian food and that live Jazz music takes place on certain nights of the week. My personal memories of Plato will be of a very laid back café, feeling more like a Mediterranean beach bar than a café in the heart of a major capital city – that’s the sort of relaxed, friendly atmosphere we found there.

We enjoyed several bottles of the refreshing local Jelen Pivo beer (119 Dinars / 1.00 GBP per 330ml bottle) and unwound after a hectic day of travelling up from Sarajevo and sightseeing in Belgrade.

A very relaxed café in the heart of Belgrade. A great place to unwind with a cold beer amongst a laid back, friendly crowd. Very highly recommended!

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My friend and I visited La Revolucion for a beer one evening during a visit to Belgrade in May 2007.

This lively Cuban bar is located on Uskočka bb, close to the main pedestrianised street of Kneza Mihailova.

There are dozens of tables outside, but on this humid Saturday evening they were all full when we arrived, so we were forced to take a seat inside. Live Latin music was being played downstairs, with the door open in order that those outside could benefit from it, so we went upstairs and sat at a small wooden table in a room decorated with Che Guevara and Fidel Castro photographs and other memorabilia common to Cuban bars all over the world.

Sadly, the interior was uncomfortably hot on this sticky spring evening, so we drank our Weifert beers (114 Dinars / 1.00 GBP for 330ml) and left to find a café with outdoor tables available.

A very busy Cuban bar with live music…but not enough outdoor tables!

Along the banks of the Danube (especially at the Danube Key near the "Jugoslavija"hotel and Sava Rivers, splavovi - the floating raft clubs - blast music out into the night air with St Sava cathedral lit up in the background. It is easy to find someting to suit everyone down there, the night life in Belgrade has been getting rave reviews in the press lately and it seems there is something to suit everyones needs.

If you want to explore Belgrade nightlife before checking it out yourself, "at the face of the place", check this website:

http://www.clubcoyu.com/

There you will find out a lot about Belgrade nightlife (as well as in other cities), clubs, addresses, enterier, even photos from the parties organized there. You can see pretty people, like these two girls, who are my friends, by the way, so if you want to get to know them... :)))))

Club "Sound" is a raft-club where music is played by DJ's, with people from 23 to 35 years old and with really good, positive atmosphere. You will party on a raft-house to the early morning! Best time to enter (becouse of crowd) is before 23:00h or after 02:00h. Open during late spring and summer. It's a must!

Dress Code: Casual

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This is one of the rare club's in Belgrade where you can hear live band's playing. Atmosphere is great, sometimes maby too crowdy, but great!
My favorite band that plays in Fest is "Djura i mornari", charming Djura :)))

Dress Code: Casual

"Greenet" started some 15 years ago and now it turned into a chain of coffie bars all over Beograd. They have the best coffie! You have a choice of almost 30 sorts of coffie all in three sizes. Also, you can get a deserte and if you choose to sit in the one in "Beogradjanka" you can also order something to eat.

This here is not some hot night spot. It is more of a place where you come with your friends, or alone, to chill and relax. It is equally populated in the day as it is in the evening...

Dress Code: Being a caffe shop, there is no dress code and that's the beauty of it :)