Serves fish, vegan options available. Has pasta, salads and house-made seitan. Non-smoking. English spoken and on menu. Only 18 seats so reserve ahead. Directions: 1 minute walk from the Catholic Cathedral. Note Karuzo has a "bb" street address - it's at the east end of street before the numbering starts. Reported to close earlier than stated times. Phone no 033444647. Reservations only. Open Mon-Tue 12:30pm-11:00pm, Wed-Fri 12:00pm-3:00pm, Wed-Sat 6:00pm-11:00pm.
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Dzenetica Cikma bb, Sarajevo, Bosnia And Herzegovina, 71000
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59 Reviews
First Review by Adnan
Stevie
Points +11765
Karuzo, Sarajevo - Edit
Vegetarian and pescatarian food. For veggies there are offerings for lacto, ovo and vegan vegetarians. Pescatarian dishes offered, e.g. shrimp and sushi if you have someone non veggie friendly with you who likes fish/seafood. Good choice menus are in English including the specials board. The chef/waiter is a nice guy called Sasha. He is multi-lingual including English. I simply asked what he would recommend that was vegan veggie. In a great 'can do' response he enthused back to me, "What would you like, I can cook anything you like?". 25 marks for a hearty and tasty meal including a fruit juice make it good value for money. Centrally located and open good hours on most days. I would prefer if it was 100% veggie of course but it's easily the best restaurant in town currently for veggies (I need no convincing of the difficulties in trying to interest Bosnians in a purely vegetarian restaurant).
Read moreKaruzo has a 'bb' street address (see guidance notes on the Bosnia and Hercegovina page on this website). It's at the East end of the street before the numbering starts. From the Catholic Cathedral its just up the hill and turn left round the corner.
A very small point but I would prefer if the menu was split into vegetarian and pescatarian sections. Something on the menu to indicate the vegan veggie dishes would also be useful.
Closed Sundays but everyone needs a day off.
I'd be more than happy to eat here again.
Corrected west with east from previous review on Friday March 30, 2007, following comment below from Maggie.
Pros: Tasty food, Central, Friendly service
Cons: Closed Sundays, Not 100% veggie
Maggie
Great review, just one correction, Karuzo is located at the east, not the west end of Mehmed Spaho, just behind the central market(Merkale) - walk to the back of the market and you'll be facing it.
Read moreDijanam
Absolutely wonderful place. I am not sure what is better the atmosphere, chef or food. Not too expensive even for Bosnian standard. From my experience, especially in dating a vegan in Sarajevo, this is the first time someone knew what "vegan" means.
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Maggie
Points +162
Creative and interesting food - Edit
Karuzo serves fish and cheeses, no meat, no eggs. Incredibly creative and varied vegetarian and vegan selections, with changing specials. We've eaten there multiple times. Sasha, the owner/chef is very knowledgeable and willing to do substitutes for vegans - he often substitutes smoked tofu for cheese. Everything is made from scratch by the owner and one helper with fresh food, so the wait can be long if there are other customers, but the food is worth waiting for. Specialties we particularly like are the grilled pear, greens and walnut salad; the swiss chard pockets; the chili seitan; nacho salad; polenta with porcini sauce. He has several eggless desserts - the chocolate apple cherry dessert is our favorite, also ice cream with salt and olive oil! and amaranth pudding. Seating is limited, so reservations are helpful. Take out is also available. He can use a bit too much salt for our taste, so we always ask him to go light on the salt. There's one nice outside table. The tables for four have one backless bench.
Read morePros: creative food, varied gourmet vegan selections, friendly and helpful chef
Cons: slow service, limited seating
Guest
jollypig
Points +3070
Mixed Feelings - Edit
OK, so you come here knowing that the restaurant serves sushi, which would put many vegetarians off.
Read moreThe owner is helpful and friendly and willing to tailor your meal to your taste and requirements. After a bit of a wait the food was pretty good, but not great - perhaps a bit on the bland side. It was a little overpriced by Sarajevo standards.
It's a nice restaurant; more upmarket than most in Sarajevo. But personally I'd prefer to go to a totally vegetarian place, which in Sarajevo means the excellent Vegehana. Otherwise there's Global Foods or Taj Mahal which are Veg Friendly.
Pros: Friendly owner, Nice atmosphere
Cons: Serves sushi, Food a bit bland, Expensive
Guest
raluca
Points +43
OK.. - Edit
The restaurant is not 100% vegetarian - it serves fish as well.
Read moreThe owner cooks all the food himself, which can lead to quite long waiting times. The food wasn't bad, nothing special, I just felt it was really overpriced for what it was (£9 for quite a simple lentil dish in Bosnia is a bit much).
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Adnan
Points +53
It's here, or nowhere - Edit
Macrobiotic food (serves fish). Creative menu. The only place in town for sushi -- good sushi. The owner runs the place by himself -- nice guy. Decent wine list. Mostly international crowd.
Read morePros: non-smoking, good food
Cons: seating arrangements, long waits (when busy), prices
Guest
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