Budva & Cetinje, Montenegro

I haven't been blogging in a while...

But we are moving on through Europe :-)

From Italy we jumped on a ferry to Montenegro. Ancona - Bar.

The drive from Firenze to Ancona was the worst so far... Hitting Bologna we ran into some serious traffic...3 lines on the freeway but sometimes we came to complete stops at several times...then after Rimini we could speed up again! I mean, we made the ferry....right? :-)

We stayed with some friends in Cetinje. It's located up in the mountains about 30-40 min drive from the coast. Believe me it's a drive... :-) The city use to be the capital of Montenegro.

Down by the coast there is a few villages and towns situated along the mediterranian sea. Budva is one of them closest to us but also Sveti Stefan, who is famous as a

celebrity hang out :-)

Here is the boulevard in Budva, packed with restaurants and shops.

The harbour was very nice!

Beach sunset is something to long for in the winter....

Budva aslo has an old town located right by the waterfront and it's very cool, narrow streets with small boutiques and restaurants.

Here you see the montains in the background.

This is the opposite picture :-)

M's friends since 20 years back is running a restaurant located just outside Cetinje and their concept is local products and old traditional cooking. Restaurant Konak is the name.

Here we sitting with 2 reporters from the newspaper Podjeda. They wanted to interveiw me because I'm a chef from Stockholm coming here to explore the food and the Montenegro country! Quite fun!

Here is the guy who runs the place with passion, Pajo.

Here you can see on the map where the restaurant is located :-)

Just next to the original place he is building a new one, hopefully it will stand ready next year.

What about the food then? Well it's very traditional as I said before but it's tasty.

Here is one of my favourites, a homemade sausage of pork, dried and then grilled on charcoal. Amazing flavour!

This is hotter than a sauna! This is their signature. Pod sac, Charcoal braised meat on the bone.

The charcoal is underneath and on top of the pot. It almost becomes like a pressure cooker.

At Konak they use lamb and veal.

And here is both veal and lamb, it's served simple as this and it's delicious!!

Budva is a party town and if you wanna go "all in" you take a taxi up the montain to Top Hill night club. It's a massive place, it can take up to 5000 peolpe. It's an open air place carved out of the mountain and you can dance until 5 in the morning...

Cheers!!

More is coming up soon.....