Zov Homolja – Best Eats from the East

As you walk in, on your right is a butcher’s cabinet (guaranteeing the freshness of the meat) where you’ll be greeted by one of the friendly staff, and on the left is some kind of strange collection of farm animals arranged on a stove.

We ventured into the back room of the place where smokers can puff on their cigarettes as they munch on their plump cevapcici. The design of this place has been fuelled by a love of nostalgia for the homeland by the Serbian owners – accordions and guitars adorn the walls, and we’re particularly impressed by the ingenious disguising of the ventilation system with a rustic wooden veneer. The Serbian pop music on the television assures us that we’ve achieved what we set out to do with this article – we’ve ventured off the beaten path and into the Balkan places of Vienna that normally only the Balkan communities go to.
The menu, both in Serbian and German, is fun to explore for people that are inexperienced in the Serbian kitchen (be warned: it’s meat-heavy). We order 6 of the plump cevapcici which land on our table with some homemade flatbread. The Serbs are also good with their salads and we’d recommend ordering a Šopska salad on the side – tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, peppers and white cheese.

The staff make us feel at home and seem genuinely happy to have us there, which makes us love this place even more. And the Slivovitzais cheap, and sold by the glass or the bottle.