Art Design

Top choice in Kosovo


Despite sounding flash and modern, Art Design is actually an old house brimming with character and full of local arts and crafts. Choose between dining outside over a little stream or in one of the two rather chintzy dining rooms. Traditional dishes here include sarma (meat and rice rolled in grape leaves) and speca dollma (peppers filled with meat and rice).


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