Sarajevo Dibek
Sarajevo’s oldest active coffee house, where the beans are pounded on a stone mortar, the dibek, rather than ground. The flavour is unmistakable. The...
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Sarajevo Ministry of Ćejf
Bosnia's first third-wave specialty coffee café — opened by an Australian-Bosnian actor, named after the local word for slow, intentional pleasure, and ranked the top coffeehouse in Sarajevo.
Photograph: Ministry of Ćejf · Used with permission
Neighbourhood 01
Baščaršija
5 gems
Sarajevo Ćevabdžinica Hodžić
A three-time Golden Crown winner on Bravadžiluk, opened in the early 2000s and now considered one of the four classic Sarajevo ćevabdžinicas alongside Željo,...
Sarajevo Ćevabdžinica Mrkva
Sarajevo’s largest ćevapi chain, opened in 1963 on Bravadžiluk and now grilling at six addresses across the city. The signature is Argentine charcoal, deeper...
Sarajevo Petica Ferhatović
Sarajevo’s oldest still-active ćevapi restaurant, opened in 1957 by the Ferhatović family. Three generations in, slightly quieter than Željo, equally serious about the meat....
Sarajevo Ćevabdžinica Željo
The most famous ćevabdžinica in Sarajevo, opened in 1968 on Kundurdžiluk. Two branches face each other across the street. Locals divide on which is...
Neighbourhood 02
Centar
4 gems
Sarajevo Café Barometar
A café-bar with one of the best-looking interiors in central Sarajevo, exposed brick walls, metal piping, vintage machinery as decor, handmade furniture, and unusual...
Sarajevo Museum 1878–1918
A single ground-floor museum at the north foot of the Latin Bridge. The building was Moritz Schiller’s Delicatessen in 1914; Princip stood at this...
Sarajevo Viennese Café
The Viennese Café at Hotel Europe is the city’s oldest continuously-running coffeehouse, painted ceilings, crystal chandeliers, a long wooden bar, and a menu that...
Sarajevo Zlatna Ribica
Zlatna Ribica is a tiny bar near Sarajevo Cathedral with a museum-like interior, good coffee and drinks, friendly service, and very little room to...
Neighbourhood 03
Kovači, Stari Grad
3 gems
Sarajevo Čajdžinica Džirlo
A tiny teahouse on a cobbled lane above the Sebilj, where Husein and Dijana Džirlo serve 53 different teas, traditional Bosnian coffee, and salep...
Sarajevo Ministry of Ćejf
Bosnia’s first third-wave specialty coffee shop, opened in 2018 by Rešad Strik — a former Hollywood and Ertuğrul actor who came to visit his...
Sarajevo Pekara kod Mahira
A small no-fuss bakery on Kovači street, two minutes uphill from the Sebilj. Burek, sirnica, krompiruša, zeljanica, somun, occasional pizza. The kind of place...
Neighbourhood 04
Bistrik
2 gems
Sarajevo At Mejdan
A quiet park on the south bank of the Miljacka, named in Ottoman Turkish for “Horse Square”, a 15th-century horse track and trading ground,...
Sarajevo Brewery — Sarajevska Pivara
Sarajevo’s working brewery, founded 1864. The oldest industrial plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by 1907 the largest brewery in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its natural...
Neighbourhood 05
Marijin Dvor
2 gems
Sarajevo History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Historijski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine sits in a Boris Magaš-designed concrete and glass pavilion from 1963, originally built as the Museum of the...
Sarajevo National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Zemaljski muzej is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s national museum, opened in 1888 by the Austro-Hungarian administration of Benjamin von Kállay. Its four pavilions hold...
Neighbourhood 06
Sedrenik, Stari Grad
2 gems
Sarajevo Bašča kod Ene
Bašča kod Ene is a quiet, family-run traditional restaurant in the residential Sedrenik mahala on the northern slope above the old town. Cevapi, slow-cooked...
Sarajevo 7 Šuma — kod Minje
Where to eat lamb in Sarajevo? 7 Šuma (Seven Forests), locally called Restoran Minjo, is a family-run traditional Bosnian restaurant high on the Sedrenik...
Neighbourhood 07
Baščaršija, Stari Grad
1 gem
Sarajevo Dveri
Dveri (the name means “gates”) is the well-loved family-run restaurant tucked just off Sarači on Prote Bakovića, behind heavy carved wooden doors. Traditional Bosnian...
Neighbourhood 08
Centar / Stari Grad border
1 gem
Sarajevo Meeting of Cultures
A small brass marker on Ferhadija street where the cobbles change. East of the line is Ottoman Sarajevo. West of the line is Habsburg...
Neighbourhood 09
East of the city
1 gem
Sarajevo Kozija Ćuprija
An Ottoman stone bridge from the mid-1500s, in the Miljacka gorge four kilometres east of Sarajevo. Once on the main caravan road to Istanbul....
Neighbourhood 10
Faletići, north slopes
1 gem
Sarajevo Vrelo Mošćanice
The smaller of Sarajevo’s two natural springs, on the city’s northern slopes above Faletići. A short steep walk, an icy pool, no infrastructure. Locals...
Neighbourhood 11
Halači, Stari Grad
1 gem
Sarajevo Art Kuća Sevdaha
The Sevdah Art House is a small restored 18th-century Bosnian residence in Baščaršija dedicated to the city’s defining musical tradition. Portraits, instruments, recordings, occasional...
Neighbourhood 12
Hrid, Stari Grad
1 gem
Sarajevo Park Prinčeva
A long-running family-run restaurant on Iza Hrida above the south bank of the Miljacka, looking straight across at Vijećnica and down into Baščaršija. Traditional...
Neighbourhood 13
Ilidža
1 gem
Sarajevo Rimski Most
A 16th-century Ottoman bridge in Ilidža, built from the dismantled stones of the Roman bridge that crossed the Bosna river here when this was...
Neighbourhood 14
Sarači, Stari Grad
1 gem
Sarajevo Caffe Divan
Caffe Divan is the small café that occupies the courtyard of Morića Han — Sarajevo’s only surviving Ottoman han (traveller’s inn), at Sarači 77....
Neighbourhood 15
Stari Grad (Logavina)
1 gem
Sarajevo War Childhood Museum
The Muzej ratnog djetinjstva is the only museum in the world dedicated to children’s experience of war. Founded in Sarajevo in 2017 by Jasminko...
Neighbourhood 16
Vratnik, Stari Grad
1 gem
Sarajevo Caffe Kamarija
A modest café tucked into the slope above Baščaršija, on the cobbled path that follows the old Vratnik rampart. The bazaar is laid out...
Neighbourhood 17
Vrbanjuša, Stari Grad
1 gem
Sarajevo Kibe Mahala
A long-standing traditional Bosnian restaurant on the northern slope above the old town, near the road to Sedrenik. House cooking, lamb, sač, slow-simmered stews,...
Neighbourhood 18
Wilson's Promenade
1 gem
Sarajevo Caffe Tito
A café-museum dedicated to Josip Broz Tito, last leader of socialist Yugoslavia. Inside, walls of communist-era memorabilia, vintage telephones, busts, and newspaper clippings. Outside,...
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