Reviews Balkan Cafe And Grill

I was sharing some information about my time spent in the Balkans with a client, when he asked if I had been to the Balkan Cafe. I had not and planned to visit for lunch. Cevapi was all I thought of all morning! Such a great, inviting Cafe. The server was awesome! I ordered the Cevapi. It was great! They have a super menu with a variety of beverages. The outdoor space was set up nicely and a great spot for some Turkish coffee with dessert. I'll certainly go back!

My friends and I had a great dine in experience here! I ordered the Cevapi and shared it with friends. The burger and sandwich were delicious. The meat was well seasoned and cooked. The waitress was really cool, and the decor was fascinating.

This place is a treasure serving up some of the best Turkish Coffee in Austin TX.

Tol;dr no yogurt??? 🙃 Came here mainly for the burek (with cheese) and shopska salata but ended up getting more cause the burek is relatively small and treated as an appetizer. The salad was great. So the burek was Ok (not like home sadly) but I was surprised there was no yogurt (it's not in the menu at all), they only had sour cream. The waiter told us multiple people have asked for it, so might be a worth investment. We also got the burger with fries, and palacinki as a dessert. The fries were nicely flavored (with paprika I think) and the palacinki were nice and filling. The place itself is pretty cool, they play Serbian folk music in the background (narodna muzika). I'd come back once there's yogurt

One of the places where people from the Balkans can find their favorite food and refresh their memories . This restaurant is not only about a food. You can meet nice people here and talk about the life in the USA and share memories about the place you or your parents were born. In case you ar 3rd or 4th generation in the USA you might feel nostalgia and wish to visit this part of Europe.

Strange to stumble upon a Serbian restaurant, but I enjoyed this meal more than I enjoyed mine in Serbia. Would recommend. They have American food too.

My dear companion and I came here for lunch one day with a couple of friends. Our couple of friends was characteristically late as usual, so we enjoyed some Turkish Coffee while we waited. It arrived in the traditional style with a little baby pot and two little baby cups. The coffee was good like I expected, but for +$3.99 there wasn't enough of it. I always love the little baby cups, but the little baby pot made for too many babies in the mix. What is this, a nursery? Now, I'm not advocating for a fully grown 12-cup adult coffee pot—don't get me wrong: I'm neither greedy nor loony—but somewhere between a toddler and a teenage coffee pot would have been nice. With the little baby pot we only got two little baby cups worth of coffee, mine being even heavier on the dregs / grounds than Arabic coffee already is to begin with. But I do enjoy the “traditional” things of life, so I'll stop complaining about babies now and just say it was nice to have Arabic coffee again after so long without it. This place also serves Balkan cocktails, but my dear companion and I ain't drinkers. They do got 'em, though; just thought you should know. I think I saw they also have hookahs. Oh, and they have an inordinate amount of guitars all over the restaurant. What is this, Balkan Hard Rock Cafe & Grill? Now, a lot of people may not know this: “Balkan” refers to a region of Southeast Europe including Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Romania, Slovenia. Many people may not know this, either: Balkan Cafe & Grill is a Balkan joint what serves Balkan stuff. Even fewer people will know what Balkan cuisine is like. I sure didn't. My dear companion and I ordered Cevapi, which the menu describes as beef/veal “kebabs.” Imagine a bunch of sausage links sleeping in a lepinja bread bed. The sausage was good and all, but it weren't the kind of kebab I was looking for, and I wasn't quite sure how to eat this dish. Is it a sandwich? No, I thought, the sausages would roll right out of bed, fall all over the place and make me some kind of Balkan laughingstock. I guess you tear the bread into chunks, wrap up each baby sausage in its very own lepinja bread bed adorned with onion pillows and ajvar sheets, and then you eat each baby one at a time until all the babies are safe and sound inside your stomach. My dear companion and I also ordered the Grilled Chicken Sandwich, a magnificent plate which is much more straight-forward and hereby highly recommended. The chicken was well-seasoned, well-seared, and well-cooked. Delicious. Topped with sauteed veggies, placed in baked lepinja bread, served alongside a nice quasi-Mediterranean salad and some ajvar sauce on the side. In rare instances like this, I secretly wish I didn't have to share with my dear companion, but don't tell her that. Should I find myself in the Balkans again, I might be inclined to order this dish again—all to myself this time—although I would also be keen to try a Balkan stew or the Rotisserie Lamb. Our friends ordered a Balkan Burger and some kind of mixed meat plate, both of which looked pretty darn good, and our friends were satisfied, too. We also ordered some Pecene Paprike—roasted [chilled] red peppers tossed in garlic dressing—which nicely complemented our meaty meat meals. We found the prices to be quite reasonable, and our helpful, humorous server was great, too. This is a nice place to have a meal, have some drinks, and chat with friends. We had a gay old time. And, too, I reckon it's a nice business to support with your democracy dollars. I say go on in and give it a try. Find some colorful flavor and have a nice, novel experience for once in your monotonous, monochrome life.

This place is truly a hidden gem. It's easy to pass but definitely worth it. Everything is delicious and the vegetarian options made it a crowd pleaser. I've not been this full in a long time. The server was friendly and the food was speedy.