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Balkan Taste

Balkan Taste

2354 Elmhurst Rd, 60056, Mount Prospect, US, United States

Pizza • Casual • European • Mediterranean


"Balkan Taste What a fun night my sister-in-law and I had sampling Serbian food. I have a digital pal who has traveled extensively in the Balkan region. I always ask what kind of food she is encountering. She replied one of her favorite was Serbian food. I googled Serbian food and found this four+stars restaurant, Balkan Taste in Mount Prospect. My pal reviewed the menu and made some suggestions. I printed off her suggestions and gave it to the waitress telling her that We were going to split everything. So she brought an extra plate. We started with Gibanica, a cheese pie with what appeared to be phyllo dough! Flaky and delicious Next came the sopska salad tomatoes onions cucumbers, and feta cheese. Very thinly sliced cucumbers with an excellent feta cheese. Then Cevapcici, which are small ground beef sausage links on a bed of chopped onions with kaymak. This was what I had been looking forward to tasting and they didn’t disappoint. We had only ordered a small portion as we were trying so much food but I was wishing we had ordered more. I forgot to take photos before we split this portion. Just when I thought the food couldn’t get any better the Gourmet Pljeskavica arrived which is a 12 ounce burger on a slice of bread stuffed with bacon, smoked Gouda and onions with kaymak. This was fabulous! Kaymak is similar to clotted cream. And for dessert we had cherry baklava which was very tasty and more tart than sweet. The perfect ending to a super feast. We had so much fun trying the different foods, asking the very helpful, friendly waitress questions about the food, listening to Serbian music playing in the background and meeting a Bosnian couple at the next table who were fun to talk with and compare our food choices. And the best part is we each have enough leftovers to have dinner tomorrow night! The Balkan Taste is in the strip mall on the northwest corner of Oakton and Elmhurst Road. Enter off of Oakton."