Food/beer prices

[EMIZZZZAGREB]

120 kunas now that I can believe.

[Natasa]

Right...last week experience: prime restaurant in Pula, and a fiest to eat, £140 (8 people ate).
Medulin, Istria - prime spot for Germans and Austrians, dinner for 6 - £60.
Islands - average dinner every night: £60.
It's expensive for Croatians, not for British / Scandinavians / Germans etc.

[Elveenko]

Emizzzagreb appears to be a self-styled Croatian Guru, I have lived in Zadar for 19 years and there are no expensive restaurants, Kornat's opposite the Marina, with silver-service and refurbished to the highest standard, last night cost 3 of us 310 kunas for appertizers, starters and main course, along with 1 bottle of house wine.

[EMIZZZZAGREB]

Its me 120 kunas is more than 16 euros not less than 15 and when you take into account conversion about 17.

[its me again gav]

well I guess I should be punished for guessing the conversion incorrectly.

[gmh]

Ok, so I went downstairs to the resaurant under my flat yesterday and ordered 2 servings of Lignje with frittes, 1 large mixed salad and 2 large beers. They also gave some very nice fresh baked bread.
My wife and I couldn't finish everything, they were big servings.
Total cost- 130 kuna !
Dinner for 2, less than 20 euro.
You would be hard pushed to find a meal for that price anywhere in a country with euros, let alone pounds.
Eating out in Croatia is very cheap, mainly because the people who make and serve your food are being paid crap wages!!
Always remember to give them a tip.

[brightside]

And even in the centre of Zagreb, you can find very nice, cumfy and cheap restaurants. For example, Krešimir, in Šubiæeva Street (more precise, Trg kralja Krešimira and opposite Tvornica). The interior is modern and bright, and the clientele are young people, mostly students (they are always on the hunt for such restaurants). I went there myself a couple of times and was very pleased with the food and the prices. My friends and I, the three of us, had excellent lasagne and we paid 29 kunas (two pounds and change) per portion. And we could barely eat half of it, the portions were unreasonably impressive, plus they were served in beautiful terracotta dishes. I only hope they didn't get a new cook/manager/owner in the meantime.

[bheywood]

I don't know about Zagreb, but in the Split region, 50 Kuna will buy you either an excellent pizza, a plate of girice, two beers and a salad, squid plus a beer, or a plate of goulash with gnocchi and two beers.

Just a few examples...you can spend more if you like, but if you're on a budget it's still not very expensive if you eat what the locals eat. However, it's worth remembering that you DO get a better deal in, say, Southern Italy, where you'd get bigger portions and infinitely more variety (Croatian food is great, but the restaurants all serve the same things).

And if you pay more than 12 Kuna for a beer down here, you've been had.

Cheap holiday? Yes if you're used to London. No if you've ever been to Thailand.
Ben

[ghostwriter]

ivo said:

emizzzzagreb said:

a Good restaurant in Zagreb or Dubrovnik will cost 40 euros per person at least, there is a fish restaurant I go to at least three times a month in Zagreb, it is excellent and with wine we easily spend 100 euros per person.

If people have the idea that the prices are like the Czech Republic they are wrong.

I would say than an average price on the coast in little tavern would be 150 kunas (20 euros each) per person.

As for Scandinavia, everything is expensive there its 7 euros for a beer.

There are very few places that a 500ml beer costs 70p, a beer is usually around 15 kunas

The only thing you could get for 50 kunas is cevapi.

As for the first post, I have been coming to Croatia for 5 years and I have never had a beer for 5 kunas,

People should not listen to what you are saying.

True people should not listen to what emiz is saying ;D
I agree..... nothing he says even remotely resembles what others are saying.

You can eat pretty cheaply in Croatia.... especially if you like pizza... which I love.... it is cheap everywhere in Croatia.

Also other really cheap places to eat are cafateria of businesses(company,factory) maybe you work at or your friends. They usually serve good homemade food for the employee's and really cheap.

There are many great cheap delicious places to eat. I just wish there was a little more variety. Lots of the same things... they need a few more Chinese, Indian, Mexican food places, Deli type with sandwichs. Then things would be perfect.

[ana71]

We were in Croatia last year and are proud to say, we achieved 5 kuna beer There's a wraps & smoothies bar in Korcula called Fresh and they had a two for one beer special. ten kuna for two beer. nice. big buckets of sangria too. think that korcula and dubrovnik were actually pretty expensive in general but if you compare what you might pay for a nice meal with wine at home, you'll probably walk away happy. there's some great restaurants out of the old town that are very reasonable. just got to explore a bit....

[EMIZ]

Most of these prices are so unrealistic that i can only believe that the places are compleye dumps.

A pizza joint is not a resturant, its a fast food place, the price should be compared with McDonalds.

I will be going to a fairly good resturant in Zagreb on Thursday, the price of a meal if around 400 kunas per person, plus wine.

I have never seen a beer for 5kuna in Croatia for a long time. what Size was it 100ml?

[gmh]

rides a harley, and a jet ski, has a 4 wheel drive, and eats 400 kuna dinners.
I guess some people just like to waste their money on pointless excess.
All the prices people have posted are a reality. I can even imagine the 5 kuna beer special, because even at Pivnica Medvedgrad they have a happy hour with 6 kuna 500ml beers, and it's good beer !!

[EMIZ]

Ok gavin you live in Zagreb, what is the average price of a beer in Zagreb, lets say a bottle of heiniken, 20 kunas?

The local beer may be 12-17 kunas. There are also plenty of places in Zagreb that are much more.

[EMIZ]

U/2/// With the exception of Croatia’s favourite son-in-law, none of you actually live in Croatia, therefore you actually have no idea what you are talking about, the amount of time I waste on here arguing something that anybody actually lives here would know is insane.

You would argue grass is pink if it makes Croatia look better, you basically lie

Ok I am going to bulldog today, around 3pm if anybody wants to try find me it’s a café bar in Zagreb a beer will cost me around 19 kunas, it is not a special bar, just normal prices.
The casino in Zagreb, one of my favourite places, nothing special a beer is 18 kunas. Dublin Pub on Maksirmirska a Heiniken beer is 35 kunas, that is more than I pay in England. These are not extravagant places, just average places to drink. I have been invited today to meet with some people from here on by a friend of mine on Friday how much will a beer cost in the intended meeting place, a local beer will probably cost 15 kunas an a foreign beer 20?

Somebody name all these places in Zagreb centre where I can get a 500ml beer for 5 kunas, and I will buy you 50 beers.

[gmh]

emiz, I don't drink that beer, but am sure it's over priced.
I'm an Ozujsko man, but lately have switched to Zlatni Verc from pivnica medvedgrad, which can now be found on tap at a few places around town.
I have paid anywhere between 10 and 15 kuna standardly for a half litre bottle of ozujsko. I may have paid 20 kuna for a beer at that new overly white Skola bar.