Written at Vinogradišće bay · Summer 2026
There is no printed menu at Zori Restaurant, and that is not an affectation. Chef Siniša Jevrosimov writes the card every afternoon, after the morning boats come in and after he has seen what the day actually brought. A fixed menu would mean buying to a plan. He prefers to cook to the catch.
The wind decides as much as the chef does. When the maestral blows clean from the northwest the boats go out and the fish is the centre of the plate. When the sea is rough the kitchen turns inland, to the garden and the slow things: vegetables from the terraces, herbs cut an hour before service, a longer braise. The card reads differently on a calm day than on a wild one, because the bay does.
Guests sometimes want to know in advance what they will eat, and we understand the instinct. But the honest answer is that we do not know yet either. What we can promise is that whatever reaches the table came from close by, was chosen that morning, and is the best version of itself the day allowed. The kitchen confirms the card with you when you sit down. Until then, it belongs to the wind.
Iva & Renato Tomlinović