Cevabdzinica Stari Most/Old Bridge (Astoria)

[hatless]

This is the one just up 42nd St. from 30th Ave., heading toward 28th. I think there used to be a small sectarian Greek church in the space.

They don't do burek, they don't do sarma or stews. They essentially just grill meat: cevapi, pleskavica, lamb chops, sweetbreads, sudzuk, and "Sarajevo burgers" on buns. They've got salads to accompany and a few desserts,. It's not upscale by any means, but some thought went into the Old-Bosnia theme of the decor: It's got a bit of an old stone cellar look going on without any actual stone ;)

Anyhow: it's my favorite cevapi so far in the nabe by a good margin. Charred and crisp, and tender, greasy (in the way great junk food is) and juicy all at once and more so of all of the above than I've found at Cevabdzinica Sarajevo, Dejerdan and Ukus. Well-seasoned without tasting of burnt garlic. It comes with the usual bread (good and chewy), mild ajvar, chopped raw onion, and a dollop of tangy kajmak. If there's better, it's at some place I haven't gotten to yet, like maybe that one in eastern LIC.

As seems to be the norm, they have full orders of 10 for $8 and half-orders (in this case, 5) for $5.

The guy working the grill told me they're going to try making some pies during the summer, but not the usual ones.

[david sprague]

sounds like a great find, thanks! i love sarajevo, but the more the merrier when it comes to grilled meats!

[Bob Martinez]

There's a rudimentry website up -
http://www.oldbridgeny.fkstarimost.com/

The menus aren't there yet but if you've got speakers you can hear Beethoven.

[tony70]

hi, everyone i am from ex Yugoslavia , Macedonia and i came to USA 4 years ago and i bean eating food in burger king , key food sandwiches and etc. then my friend Mikel told me about cevabdzinica sarajevo (finaly Balkan food)
cevapy , pljeskavica and etc food from grill . good food no question about it then i find out about cevabdzinica ukus also good food ( hm, pita only) cevapy , pljeskavica are batter in sarajevo cevabdzinaca
then i just find out for old bridge or stari most cevabdzinica and i was so suprised man cevapy , pljeskavica , sarajevo burger are so goooood i can't even explain how they are good best best better then any where i eat them before.
then stari most have more room inside(and better looking ) then named above restaurants or cevabdzinica plus they have room outside to eat also and you can have cigarette if you are smoker (out side only) and they have" free hot spot wirelees so if you have notebook there you go free internet"
but i still going back to cevabdzinica sarajevo because they have good pita
when comes to cevapy or pljeskavica i suggest to everyone stari most or old bridge restaurant is number one 30 ave 42 street astoria 11103