Best restaurants in the Balkans

Albania's most celebrated farm-to-table restaurant — chef Altin Prenga's zero-km tasting menus in the hills of Fishtë.

Tiny family courtyard restaurant — Lili cooks Berat's best home food. A handful of tables, book ahead.

No menu, no rush — a legendary family table where mezes keep arriving with house wine and stories.

The most famous qebaptore in Kosovo — riverside terrace, charcoal qebapa and pite since 1966.

Saranda's top-rated fine dining — Ionian seafood with Mediterranean technique right on the promenade.

Upscale seafood and sushi destination — raw bar, signature cocktails and one of the most stylish dining rooms in the capital.

Tirana institution serving traditional Albanian and Mediterranean dishes in the heart of Blloku since 1999.

Hillside seafood escape inside Chateau Linza Resort — the freshest Adriatic & Ionian catch served with sweeping Tirana views.

The original 1990s Pazari i Ri seafood institution — daily-caught fish, Albanian market energy and sea-to-table Mediterranean cooking in the heart of Tirana.