What a visitor's money does in Serbia: every guide rated from very cheap to very expensive, cheapest first, then the things that cost travellers money without buying anything — the ATM, the taxi, the SIM.
Serbian Dinar (RSD) · 1 EUR = 117 RSD · 1 USD = 104 RSD
Pay in dinars. The exchange offices (menjačnica) are on every street, licensed, and usually beat both the banks and the airport; compare the buying rate in the window rather than the sign. Euros are quoted for flats and some tours but not used in shops. The dinar is hard to sell outside Serbia, so spend or change it before you leave.
Avoid: Euronet, machines on Knez Mihailova and around Republic Square
Use: Banca Intesa, Raiffeisen, UniCredit, AIK Banka
The menjačnica exchange offices are an honest alternative to a machine, and usually a better rate than any bank.
Grilled meat is the cuisine: ćevapi, pljeskavica, and kajmak with everything, and burek with yoghurt from a bakery for breakfast. A kafana is a long, loud lunch with rakija before it; Skadarlija is the famous street of them and charges for the fame, so eat in Dorćol or Zemun for the same food. Portions are large and prices are low.
Vojvodina cooking is the Pannonian side of Serbia: fish paprikash, goulash, štrudla with poppy seed, and noodles with sweet things on them. Wine is the local thing rather than rakija — the cellars at Sremski Karlovci make bermet, a spiced dessert wine, and the Fruška Gora wineries are twenty minutes out.
The cost rating is this site's own, for a visitor, from the guides' authors and the corrections readers send in. The general rules — the conversion prompt, shoulder season, the airport taxi — are in budget travel tips.
