Please do not go to the Klub Knjizevika. The food is desperately bad (and very overpriced), the service slow and unresponsive, the live music lacking any cultural relevance to Belgrade/Serbia, and the entire place so noisy that you and your guests will struggle to have...any kind of reasonable conversation. This is written from the perspective of having visited and eaten at the Klub for several decades, and with a clear memory of when it was good. It is now a parody of itself, despite a great location and potentially lovely ambience - although when we there, the garden room was like a furnace, with no attempt made to ventilate the space.
The dishes we ordered were all exceptionally dry and lacking flavour, with the entrees unimaginative and likely to be significantly bettered by any Belgrade café serving local cuisine. Pork neck and duck breast are naturally flavoursome and juicy – but not at the Klub Knjizevika; we mentioned all this to the waiter, who seemed indifferent to our concerns, and certainly unprepared to escalate the situation to the maître d’ or chef. Drinks were similarly tragic; poor imported beers in bottles so tiny they could have been from airline catering, rakija lacking fruitiness and depth, and even mineral water far from adequately chilled.
To top all this, the service was almost comically bad; silly and pretentious opinions were offered about aspects of the food and drinks menu - but alongside this was a basic inability to take our order and serve the food properly, or to clear the table when appropriate.
To repeat, do not make the mistake of going to the Klub Knjizevika and having a disappointing time there; this place does not deserve your custom.More
