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The First Lady of the Adriatic
The joy of Mediterranean food is its simplicity, and you can’t get much simpler than the humble sardine. A staple diet of poor fishermen’s families for generations, sometimes looked down upon by those who think paying ten times more guarantees ten times more satisfaction, the sardine is beginning to take her rightful place as the queen of the sea.They say there’s no better place to eat sardines than right on the fishing boat. Able seamen rinse them in seawater, dip them in flour, chuck them into a pan of boiling oil, drain and salt them and peel the juicy white flesh off the bone, throwing the remains to the gulls. Try this at home – use plenty of good quality, strong, extra virgin olive oil. Buy bags of fresh sardines outside the fish market.
A rather more refined way to eat sardines is grilled in a special wire rack over charcoal (or threaded onto twigs if you’re nimble). Don’t get fussy with them – leave the first side to cook, turn once or twice only, and then coat them in olive oil and salt. Eat with your fingers with hunks of fresh bread, local tomatoes and red wine.
When the fešta is in town, you’ll have the opportunity to try sardines at stands throughout the city. And in a good konoba (traditional fisherman’s restaurant), you can try any number of alternative ways to eat these little bundles of goodness: salted, marinated, or eaten cold as a paté or a salad.
Latest Comments:
Foša
Fosa setting and location is fantastic. The interior is also very nice. The service is outstanding....Donat
This really has amazing ice cream. I highly recommend it....Mc Kebab
Best Kebab in town it even might be the only place that service it....Taverna Diklo
Wonderful place good view small parking small tables. The second best place to eat fish in town. I personally like Roko more! The sea food is a must here! try the mussels and this other white shell (forgot the name locals call it Grope) main dish any thing from the sea fish shrimp lobster....Roko
You get really big portions that is true. The food is amazing! I am at other places where they serve fish but this place was the best! Highly recommend shells as starters and shrimps or Kovach (Kovač) fish for main dish (this fish is pricier but delicious)....Mamma mia
Amazing food good service good prices. You can order out but you have to pick up the food...Taverna Diklo
We ate a mixed seafood plate tonight and it tasted good. We enjoyed the service and would like to give credit to the waiter's recomendations....Zadar - Jadera
Absolutely amazing! We went here few years ago and have been dreaming of the meat platter since! Great food great service amazing price and beautiful country....Taverna Diklo
I personally think that the Taverna was a wonderful place to enjoy exquisite food as well as relax. I believe that the service was great and I would very much love to traipse back in there someday in the future! For seven weeks the Taverna was something of a sanctuary....Marinero
Very good food, very kind service, and normal prices...Hajduk
Pozdrav iz Svicarske Selimi i Dozes....Falcon
great restaurant steak delicious home made pizza as good . this restaurant is not much to look at from outside but the food is better than the more expensive one next door and the service is better....Tu mi je lipo
Le très chic restaurant 'TU MI JE LIPO', en plein centre de Zadar, situé au coeur d'un vieux palais 'Borelli', la grande famille zaratine croate, offre aux gourmets une cuisine raffinée, avec l'aspect, l'odeur et l'ame de l'incomparable ville de Zadar....Rafaelo
Had an amazing steak here, probably of the best meal I had on the whole holiday!...Na po ure
I've visited this restaurant in June and had terrible experience. I was billed for the meal I didn't eat, the meal was of course more expensive the the one I actually had, and when I asked the waitress for explanantion she was very rude....