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Belgrade Food & Drink Festival

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Belgrade, 12-13 June, Kalemegdan Fortress, 38°C.

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Kalemegdan scenery.

About

Imagine a picnic or a sophisticated garden party in a huge park that is also an important historical site with thousands of guests. Invite the best local restaurants to cater with top specialties this event, the best beverage manufactures and wine makers to quench your thirst. Combine this with the live music and entertainment, top culinary Chefs to share tips, many delicacy dishes that you can taste the whole day, the company of famous and interesting people and you will get the idea of the first Belgrade Food & Drink Festival.

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After New York, London, Prague, Melbourne, Singapore and many other world metropolises, Belgrade too is finally host of the first festival of this kind in the country and in the region. The festival has already gained the status of an official city event and has official support from: the City of Belgrade, The Tourist Organization of Belgrade and the Belgrade Kalemegdan Fortress.

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The basic idea of the festival is to offer its visitors the opportunity to have a completely new, epicurean and hedonistic experience for all the senses by tasting the most spectacular delicacies of the 20 most well known restaurants of Serbia. In addition to restaurants, Festival visitors also had a chance to experience the best of what some of the most famous food and drink manufacturers, as well as catering services, wine makers, pastry and dessert makers have to offer. Each exhibitor had their own display stand.

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I was on the site, on behalf of Foodbuzz with my boyfriend Mateja and friend Sanja, executive editor of Serbian edition of Sale & Peppe magazine. She also helped a lot in writing this post ♥

Mamma’s Biscuit House

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Piggies; Igor Mitrović, owner of Mamma’s Biscuit House

Mamma’s Biscuit House is one of the most famous and most visited pastry shops in Belgrade. The piggies above are their signature miniature cakes made with ground Plazma biscuits, white chocolate and redcurrants.

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Miloš Maravić and Aca Tmušić preparing berry trifle.

Milos was the head chef and pastry chef in restaurant Zaplet for about 7 years. He has recently decided to focus more on pastry, so for a few months now he is a pastry chef in Mamma’s Biscuit House. On the spot, with the assistance of Aca, he made wonderful and huge berry tifle and also gave me the recipe which I will post soon :)

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Sanja with her boyfriend Miloš :)

Zaplet

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Lamb kapama

Zaplet is one of, if not the best Belgrade restaurant internationally famous for successfully combining Serbian with international cuisine. Their head chef Mirko Stojić made lamb kapama, Serbian dish cooked sous-vide. On the top is Greek yogurt and spring onion ice cream and all is topped with Parmesan foam. It is served with homemade focaccia (Zaplet makes their own selection of breads). This was most definitely, the best meal I had on site!

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Pistachio ice cream sandwich; Sanja and Mirko

Mirko also made two types of ice cream sandwich cookies. Pistachio that you can see on the photo and extraordinary pop corn flavored, the one that didn’t make to the post as it all melted down :)

Mojito

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Frenki

As well as being a pastry shop, Mamma’s biscuit House is also a coctail bar. They saved the day with a huge selection of Mojitos. I don’t think we would have survived the heat if there weren’t them.

Frenki, the cocktail grandmaster, used to work in English restaurants for a long time. Today, he is a manager and a cocktail master in Mamma’s Biscuit House. For them he invented over a 15 different types of Mojitos!

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Minja
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I also had a chance to meet up with my friend bloggers Minja and Ana and the girls from Minja’s forum :)

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And of course, a huge thank you to Foodbuzz for arranging me to get a press pass as a part of Foodie Correspondence Program!

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18 Comments

  • Peter M June 29, 2010 3:04 am

    Marija, there's so little known about Serbia and Belgrade's food scene. Your post shows it's far more advanced then we understand.

  • maxivida June 29, 2010 3:29 am

    Divan izveštaj, šteta što nije malo duži. Ko da sam bila tamo!

  • Surac June 29, 2010 4:30 am

    Eh, Beograde sto je super tamo…

  • Nada June 29, 2010 4:45 am

    Baš su ti krasne sličice Marija, na Kalemegdanu sam bila prije 10- tak godina..čini se da se nije puno promijenilo..sve izgleda super..

  • cosmo2503 June 29, 2010 5:18 am

    Volim ovakva dešavanja i redovno posjećujem razne slične festivale. Imaju oni nekih svojih nedostataka, ja bi više obratila pažnju na sam izložbeni prostor, da svaki štand daje posbnu atmosferu, a ne da svi liče jedan na drugi, ali u principu ovakva dešavanja su mi draga.Drago mi je vidjeti neka lica poznata iz blogosfere.

  • melrose June 29, 2010 7:45 am

    Joj kako mi je zao sto sam ovo propustila i zbog festivala i zbog Kalemegdana:(Drago m ije da si se lijepo provela!

  • Snježa June 29, 2010 9:16 am

    I meni je užitak prisustvovati ovakvim događanjima i rado ih obilazim. Lijepo je vidjeti sve ovo a naravno i drage osobe iz blogosfere! Prekrasno i hvala!

  • Nina June 29, 2010 10:18 am

    Ow wauw, it all sounds so good. And a lot of fun too. Wish I'd been there by the look of it! :)

  • Lana June 29, 2010 5:05 pm

    I am so happy for your little photo-story on this festival – I felt as if a part of me was there! It seemed like great culinary adventure and success. We can show that we are not all about roasted pigs and Balkan grill (although, I would not pass by either without taking part:)I am so proud of my Belgrade!

  • Andrea June 30, 2010 12:22 pm

    Čitala sam danas post na poslu dok mi je šef kljuckao nad glavom tako da sam jedva dočekala svojih 5 minuta mira da sve pročitam u miru.Zbilja sam uživala u ovom postu, fotografije su standardno nadprosječne i izvanredne, a cijeli događaj me oduševio. :)

  • Liz Marr, MS, RD July 2, 2010 8:19 am

    Wonderful to get a local take on a food festival half way around the world from where I live. Thank you for sharing – and thanks to Food Buzz for facilitating international food dialogue.

  • Magic of Spice July 5, 2010 1:42 pm

    Great post, and what an event! Wow, it all looks so wonderful…

  • kittytweedy July 9, 2010 6:22 am

    great pictures, great story line, very well written! I wish I were there!

  • thelonelyradish.com July 16, 2010 2:08 am

    Your pictures make me happy.

  • Monika July 21, 2010 11:22 am

    zavidim ti! obožavam ovakve festivale, a kod nas ih gotovo uopće nema, pogotovo ovako visoko gastronomskog tipa. fotke i post su sjajni :)

  • Belgradienne July 28, 2010 5:34 am

    Thank you for this informative post. ;)

  • Rabbittrick August 20, 2010 1:52 am

    How interesting! Makes me want to visit Belgrade immediately and try all of those lovely dishes =)

  • Tali October 13, 2010 3:45 am

    I can not believe I only saw this post now! My favourite place in belgrade is Mamma's Biscuit house for the plazma mis & pras!!!!!! I used to make my ex take me there every single day!!!!

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