If you are keen to try the cuisine of the country, some of the things to look out for include prebranac (baked beans in a paprika-y sauce), ajvar (a roasted pepper salad/spread), urnebes (what happens when you add spice and cheese to ajvar), kajmak (think delicious salty clotted cream to put on warm bread), šopska salata, a variety of white cheeses, sarma (a mix of ground pork or beef with rice rolled in vine leaves or pickled cabbage cabbage), gibanica (an egg and cheese pie made with filo dough), pljeskavica (a ground beef or pork patty), burek (breakfast food, also made with filo dough and with a variety of stuffings, from cheese, mushrooms, to meat), ćevapi (grilled meat), paprikaš (a soup made with peppers and paprika), gulaš (meat and vegetables soup usually seasoned with paprika and other spices), proja (traditional corn bread), and Karađorđeva šnicla (a stuffed, rolled, deep fried schnitzel).

In terms of desserts you can try some of the more Turkish influenced ones such as tufahije (walnut stuffed apples poached in sugar water), baklava, tulumbe (fried batter soaked in syrup), orasnice, or you can lean a bit more Austro-Hungarian with krempite, knedle, dobos torta, reforma or moskva cake.

We’re also big on palačinke - which are crepes, albeit the stuffings tend to differ from the French versions (think kajmak and prosciutto for the salty ones, and nutella and crunchy crushed cookies for the sweet ones).