Traditional Bosnian Dinner Last Tuesday Night

Sarajevo Photos

Backing up to last Tuesday for a moment: I got my days confused and forgot to describe our dinner on Tuesday night, which was an event. High up in the hills above the old town, but really just up the street from Michelle and Marco's house, is Kod Kibeta. It's a traditional Bosnian restaurant complete with lamb-roasting spit on the terrace and amazing views of the city. Since it was again pouring down rain when we got there, we couldn't see much of the view aside from city lights, but we got the idea.

Michelle ordered a slew of Bosnian dishes for the table along with a bottle of Slovenian red wine. We had walnut bread, a variety of salads, a big platter of the roasted lamb (fresh off the spit), meatballs, and three different kinds of dessert (one was basically baklava, one was a kind of apple tart, and the other I can't really describe except it had a fine-grained, mealy crust and was good). There may have been other food, but that's all I can remember right now, and that was plenty; there are photos of the dishes themselves and of the menu, which will help fill in the gaps later. Our meal concluded with serenading by two elderly but quick-fingered musicians, who sang and played guitars. They were like a roving juke box, taking requests from the Sarajevans at other tables who actually knew songs to ask for; we listened to whatever they chose.

Capping off our visit was a trip to the ladies' restroom, which was amusingly filled with everything you could possibly need (and more, really), including an array of hygiene sprays and spare stockings, just in case you got a run in yours, I suppose.