Kod Iva — Restaurant in Budva

If you want a true traditional Montenegrin food cooked with love and yet simple this is the right place. It’s super cheap and very simple and that is what makes it wonderful. All the vegetables and salads are simple but full of taste. We ate 4 days in a row and it was top notch everything from starters to deserts. Starting from their daily menus and all the way to their other things in the menu, everything was just perfect. Homemade wine (both red and white) was super good, one of the best we had. The fish was cooked perfectly, the cooked meals and stews were just the way real Balkan food should be. Everything is cooked by grandmas full of love. If you want luxury and class, then don’t go here, you probably should go to one of the fancy places in the center of Budva and have pizza or something which has nothing to do with Montenegro nor Balkans. But if you want a real traditional garden atmosphere, with homemade food and to experience real Balkan spirit, this is where you should go. All the comments here that are negative are simply because people expect luxury and some fancy meals. I am from Macedonia and I have been in many places in the world and I can vouch that if you want truly great Montenegrin/Balkan food, this is where you must go. I rarely write comments but...

For the taste, the food has a good taste. But…the Shells are not clean. Full of dirt and half of them were uncooked. We ask and insisted for the fish with no garlic because my husband is allergic to garlic. They bring the fish full of garlic and said “sorry” without changing the order. My boyfriend picked the middle of the fish and eat it only because he was hungry. In the menu the price of the fish is per kg. But you pay 1/2 kilo of fish “because it comes with potatoes”. So basically you pay potatoes at the price of the fish. The soups we not reccomand. It is basically water with salt and MSG. They bring the food as they want. We got the vegetables, then the potatoes then the soup, then she shells, and at the end the fish. With big pauses between them. So we finished eating the potatoes and vegetables cold. At the end, the boy said that the wine is from the house because he mistake and brought the fish with garlic but when the bill camed, the wine was on it. You can not pay with card and they don’t inform you at the beginning. I don’t recommend the restaurant because the food is not proper cleaned, service is poor. Prices are average. But I prefer to pay a little big more and to get the proper food and...

I really try not to leave bad reviews, and now goes famous “however” - this place is a horror movie, even by Montenegrin standards. We waited long for a waiter to show up, even though place was not busy (maybe 3-tables). Then the guy showed up, completely uninterested - to my absolute shock, he explained I cannot have a cup of coffee, because of “too much crowd” (place was half empty. And then my God, the food. We were served atrociously late, one plate by one, each after at least 5mins waiting. Portions are small, fish is fried (it is a sin to fry a branzino (seabas), fries were greasy and just disgusting. Further on, we were charged a kilo of the fish - for two little hand-sized fish I would call illegal to take from the sea, as too young and small. My sister had cevapi - same story, not grilled, but fried, gummy and appalling. Overall, probably the worst restaurant experience I ever had. And my standards...