Cakmara Traditional Restaurant/Boarding House Raska
The Cakmara traditional Restaurant with several authentic rooms to rent is situated 6 km north of Raska, on the regular road Kraljevo-Raska-Novi Pazar, in the beautiful Ibar River valley, surrounded with magnificent peaks of the gorgeous and wild Kopaonik and Golija Mountains. The entire Cakmara Restaurant structure in Raska has been built of the natural materials /wood and stone/ which remind visitors of the richness of nature and its various beauties and forms – the massive wooden beams from the lush forests that cover the surrounding mountains are combined with stone and used for the unique interior design /the restaurant and the rooms/, while the outside appearance with its natural and warm decoration impresses everybody at the very encounter. Once you enter the Cakmara Restaurant Raska, you feel the nostalgia for past times and the warmth of the hearth and hospitality of its hosts.
The “Cakmara” is expression which describes lots of archaic items, embroidered curtains, colorful table-cloths and old agricultural tools that used to adorn the real Serbian house in the past, and today best represent the tourist facility and restaurant with the outstanding quality of service in the region. The owners of the Cakmara Restaurant in Raska had spent years gathering various objects and items that remind them and their audience-customers of the unique harmony of culture, architecture, history, with the upcoming issues. Besides its original and simple forms of the massive wooden furniture, fire place, pleasant open terrace with beautiful panorama of the Kopaonik Mountain, wonderful garden full of flowers and grass surrounding the entire place, at the Cakmara facility you will primarily feel welcome and well. The feeling is intensified with outstanding quality of food and drinks served here, so you will surely want to come back. At the Cakmara Restaurant you have the finest Serbian traditional food to choose from – homemade smoked ham and beef, kaymak, young cheese, gibanitza, spinach pie, various soups, grilled pork meat, roasted lamb or beef, beans slowly cooked in ceramic pots, choice of fresh salads /and pickled salads in winter time/, homemade sweets featuring various unbeatable flavors of the fruits grown in the eco environment of the area, as well as the special choice of delicious drinks.
There are four pleasant and nicely arranged rooms to rent at the Cakmara Restaurant and the Boarding House in Raska /3 double and a triple room/ with facilities. All of the Cakmara rooms in Raska are designed and decorated in authentic Serbian style and equipped with massive wooden comfortable beds so to provide a pleasant stay after a busy day or intense tourist visitation to the immense natural, cultural and historical sites in and around Raska, most of them part of the UNESCO cultural heritage – the Studenica Monastery, Gradac Monastery, Stara Pavlica and Nova Pavlica Monasteries, Sopocani Monastery, Saint Peter s Church, Djurdjevi Stupovi Monastery, remote Crna Reka Monastery, Novi Pazar and its sites, the Ras Museum, Kopaonik and Golija Mountains with their outdoor facilities….One thing is sure /and strongly recommended/ – after the experience of staying or having meal at the Cakmara Restaurant and Boarding House there will be always wish to return !
