Tivat Food & Drink

Tivat food and drink, along with Kotor, cherishes Mediterranean, coastal, and mostly original Boka cuisine. In numerous hotels, restaurants, taverns, or private houses, you’ll be offered tasteful food and various delicious things from Boka. For a first meeting, you’ll get domestic grape brandy, sweet liqueur, “frustula,” olives, or olive oil.

For the main course in summer, you’ll be given grilled fish caught in the Tivat bay. Don’t hesitate to try new things offered as traditional Montenegrin or Mediterranean cuisine. Consequently, you won’t go wrong with rice with sea fruits, made from cooked rice, mussels, other smaller sea fruits, and olive oil. This meal attracts with colorfulness and pleasant smell, turning into a harmony of summer pleasure.

Unique Tivat Specialties

Tivat is specific for “zucenica” (endive), a unique coastal plant picked by hand on meadows or hill slopes. It’s a greenish plant with branchy leaves, often used for salads. The simplest preparation involves cooking, cooling, draining, and seasoning with garlic and olive oil. Moreover, there are many other tasteful specialties made from “zucenica,” and a festival dedicated to it is soon to be organized.

Also, many Tivat hotels and restaurants offer tasteful meat specialties like chops, cutlets, and roasted meat. For vegetarians, chefs provide numerous specialties made of fruit, vegetables, or fish.

Dining and Drinking in Tivat

For intimate atmospheres, well-arranged Tivat restaurants like “Galeb,” “Izlet,” “Kalimanj,” “Montenegro,” and “Splendido” are suitable, along with taverns like “Bacchus” or “Maestral.” After sunbathing and swimming, you can lunch in these spots.

After a meal, wash it down with traditional Montenegrin wines. Indeed, try white wines like “Krstac,” “Cherdonay,” or “Sauvignon,” or red wines like “Vranac,” “Merlot,” “Prokordem,” or “Cabernet.”

For a pleasant rest, enjoy Italian supper in pizzerias like “As,” “Lav,” “Pine,” “Renesansa,” or “Zodiak.” You can try tasteful Italian pizzas, lasagnas, and other dough specialties. If not calorie-conscious, visit café-pastry shops like “Biser,” “Minjon,” or “Pine” for sweets.

An important custom: chefs and waiters say “Dobro Vam ucinjelo” (May the food do you well), a traditional toast meaning “bon appetite.” And indeed, Bon Appetite!