Sherlock Bar

Occupying a prominent corner in the heart Trešnjevka, this glass box-fronted café is a great vantage point from which to observe the ebb and flow of the much-travelled Trakošćanska. The Sherlock Holmes theme becomes more evident the further in you go, with a wood-panelled corner just beyond the bar looking just like the kind of 19th-century parlour in which Holmes and Watson might have conducted their criminological ruminations. There are some ambiguous (and here and there mildly disturbing) pictures of crime scenes and criminals on the walls, and some protruding pipes and rivets providing an additional sense of steampunk theatre. Beers are from the Ožujsko stable (including their rather palatable ‘craft’ offshoot Grif), and there’s a better than average choice of rakijas and whiskies. Music is mostly upbeat pop-soul-funk; just don’t forget your pipe and deerstalker.