One of the worst restaurant experiences in my memory, even sadder because we went there for our wedding anniversary and expected much more based on other reviews.
The appetizer (ustipci and soparnik) was very good and the portion was more than big enough even for 2. However this is where the positive experience ends...
For main course I had 'Grandfather's pan' which is their signature dish and recommended by the waitress... this was bad. Like, really bad. 3 pieces of awfully dry/overdone meat without any taste or spice, containing several dangerous bone fragments scattered in the dish, with some cheap cooked-like vegetables on top.
The wife had stuffed veal - punjena vješalica - and while not as bad as the grandfather's pan, it was still easily the worst one we tried - and we tried it in at least 10 restaurants in Zagreb.
To top it off, the wife found a hair in her meal, and they charged us an entire bottle of wine when we only ordered and had 1 dcl. The invoice issue was fixed and I believe it was an honest error, and we did in the end get a free shot after sitting for another 15 min after paying, finishing our bottle of sparkling water.
Grandfathers pan cost 120 kn and the stuffed veal 90 kn, both ridiculously overpriced considering the (lack of) quality.
In summary, this place is a total tourist trap with heavily overpriced bad food - this has nothing to do with 'Croatian traditional food', you're better off going to basically any other restaurant near the...
Read moreI recently had the misfortune of dining at Konova Didov San, and I cannot stress enough how much I regret the experience. This place is the epitome of a tourist trap, preying on unsuspecting visitors with its appealing internet reputation and utterly disappointing quality.
The food was a disaster, to say the least. Every dish seemed to be drowned in oil, leaving a heavy, greasy film in my mouth that obliterated any chance of enjoying the flavors. It's as if they have no concept of balanced cooking and instead rely on excess oil to mask the lack of culinary skill.
Please do not tell me about Croatian traditions and homemade food. If Croatian people would eat such food, I believe this World remained without Croatia.
The homemade wine was an outright insult. I'm not even sure if it qualifies as wine. It was sour and undrinkable, a mockery of the winemaking tradition of the region. This establishment clearly has no respect for quality and seems content to serve patrons the cheapest, most unpalatable swill calling it "homemade".
In conclusion, save yourself the disappointment and avoid Knob Didov san at all costs. This place embodies everything that's wrong with tourist traps – subpar food, abysmal wine, filth, and discomfort. Your taste buds and sanity deserve better.
Go down the street and you will find there dozens of nice restaurants. Don't look on the starts...
Read moreI really wanted to like this restaurant but no way I could give it more than 2 stars.
First when we got in and asked if they had a free table they said that all the tables apart from 1 were booked. Fair enough. We took that one happy to have a table. The thing is that most tables stayed empty during our time there. We ordered some rakija as appetitive when the waiter also brought us a bottle of water and opened it for us without us ordering it. I was planning to get a bottle of water anyway but I really don’t like waiters deciding what to put on my bill. But okay. I could live with that too. The thing that really bothered me is that I ordered grilled calamari with chard and they said sure. When the dish arrived it was obvious it wasn’t chard but Rastika, which obviously tastes differently. I did eat it because I was starving but was extremely unhappy. When I told the waiter that it didn’t seem to be chard, he just casually replied “oh yeah, we didn’t have chard so we prepared rastika, I apologize”. I find it very insulting they just thought I wouldn’t recognize they gave me something else. I don’t expect special treatments but what I do except it is at least some respect. And this was definitely not that. Shame, I wanted to like the restaurant but the whole situation ruined it for me. To be honest not even the food was impressive. Not bad, but...
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