Хотел Колиба Грза — Hotel in Paracin Municipality

I was going to write my very positive review about Grza, but had a bitter experience with them last weekend.||||Lets start from the positive:||||LOCATION: it is very well located, in the green surroundings, excellent place to dine or have a lunch.||||FOOD: i have stopped by previously number of times and always have had a great meals, excellent plump rakija and good house coffee. ||||Now the story about my negative experience:||||A month ago, I have personally spoke in person with the manager Mr Ivan Kuzmanovic about our desire to come in the second half of July, to stay over a weekend and have a dinner too. Nearby there is a nice cave to dive and with friends we planned to stay on Saturday night in Grzna to relax, eat and fill up our empty tanks.||||The booking was made for the 23-24th of July. Wednesday the 20th, the lady from the front desk called me and said: there is no room for you guys, sorry...a football team has booked the weekend and your room was given to them, so they kicked us off straight away!||||I got furious and at the end of our phone conversation, I was promised to get two separate rooms that are a bit far away from each other (so there were rooms anyway). ||||On Saturday morning, the 23rd, I made a call to double check if the rooms are still there...the same voice of the lady informed me that we could get a proper room (the one that originally was booked by me), but we can not get a dinner as there was a wedding and another part of the restaurant was under renovation - that was tough to believe - to renovate on a weekend day in the middle of the touristic season. That more sounded as a child' story. I thanked them to be so "reliable" managers and we did not even go there. ||||Do you think that anybody checked out, why we have not showed up that night? nobody!||||That is so sad, as I frankly liked the nature and the place over there, very good food, nice to walk, cycle or enjoy some game on the greens in front of the restaurant. I'd wish the place had a better management, more professional, reliable and...

We've given this restaurant several chances, and only once were we satisfied with a dish. Just the other day, we stopped by again, and everything regarding the food was disappointing. The veal medallions were overcooked, the fries were cold. The pork ribs were reheated, as well as the homemade-style potatoes that were a side dish. Sopska salad was very mediocre. The bread we ordered was undercooked, and despite initially seeming fresh and hot, the middle was mushy.

The cevapi and other minced meat dishes were overcooked, and it was clear from their appearance that the meat wasn't 100%. The only good thing was the sheep cheese, which was creamy, fresh, almost perfect.

As for the prices in the restaurant, that's another story! The restaurant is more expensive than the best restaurants in Belgrade, and maybe the best domestic cuisine restaurant in Serbia - Durmitor. If you consider that 100g of sheep cheese is 450 dinars (at Durmitor it's 360), belolucene peppers are 350 dinars (Durmitor 275 dinars) - which by the way arrived without garlic, a beefsteak of 350g is around 3200 dinars (at Durmitor, a 400g beefsteak costs 2730 dinars), then it's hard for the rating to exceed 2. Poor food for tourists, with excessively high prices even by Belgrade standards, discredits this restaurant for...

We ordered veal and fish stew and they were tasteless as if someone made a tea and put small pieces of meat in each plate. By far it was the worst couple of restaurant soups/stews ever. The interior of the restaurant is nice and in etno style but music was a disaster - they played some foreign regional pop and rock that has nothing to do with a Serbian tradition. Salads were bad and oily and brad was tasting like a hand sanitizer. Waiters were on their cell phones in front of the guests and reception ladies looked unfriendly and uninterested. The owner and the staff are all but not good Serbian hosts that Serbia has always been famous for. Stay away from this place if you are looking for an authentic Serbian food and...