Old Bridge

Such a great Bosnian food place! The owners are fun and friendly. The food was straight out of Sarajevo and perfectly made. We will definitely be returning!

Truly liked the food. It was tasty and well prepared. The staff are kind and hospitable.
Overall a good experience.

The food is amazing, the décor is very cozy and the people who work there are very friendly. we ordered the mixed meat platter with French fries. They don’t have any beer imported from Bosnia, but they have domestic beer. Definitely will recommend this place

Came here with my pops as tourists seeking some authentic food from our South-​eastern european region. Its unbelievable that 6,000miles away from home you can still get the same quality and taste!!!

Great place for authentic food. The prices don’t hurt either.

Delicious Serbian comfort food. The plejskavica was tasty and huge served on a homemade pita with ajvar. The chevapi was great too. Can’t wait to come back for more. Btw, you can’t pay with card so make sure you have cash on you.

Mixed meat platter was preapered in front of us. It was a huge portion and tasted great! Their desserts are very good too. Highly recommend this place.

Went to Old Bridge tonight and found that the restaurant has changed name and owners. It’s now called Sheher but the food and new management is still Bosnian. The cevapi and pleskavica taste great. The people are hospitable and it looked like the entire clan was there watching soccer live on TV. The prices are super reasonable compared to Manhattan restaurants.

I absolutely love Old Bridge. The chevapy is so juicy and flavorful and delicious, the bread is really good and fluffy on the inside. The chicken kebabs are also good but it’s pointless to order anything other thank chevapy because, though the other foods are good, the chevapy is by far the best. They have fruit juices available like peach and strawberry. They have nice bosnian desserts as well
They also have a few tables outside if you feel like eating outdoors on a nice day.

Ok food.
Ordered the Cevapi consisting of small grilled beef sausages served with lepina and chopped onion on the side. But basically the dish contains sausages, patties, lamb, chicken, onion, and bread. Also they come with two sauces: white sauce (same as the yogurt gyro sauce, and a red sauce for flavor and not spicy)
The sausages wasn’t the best out there. The patties was ok. The chicken was ok, but they didn’t have hot sauce to mix it with the chicken. The lamb was hard and chewy. The bread was ok as well.
Basically, you pay for what you get…

The food was amazing. I had cevapcici and it was delicious with reasonable price. I will come back.

Good sandwiches great service

Yummy delicious burger!

Stari Most /​Old Bridge serves my favorite burgers in the city. I don’t know whether that statement would have more or less credibility with the additional context of: «I am not really a burgers person». I would hope more for I’ve had more than a few thousand, even if the trend a few years back towards ‘gourmet burgers’ was almost completely lost on me.
As other Unilocalers have noted, the ambiance inside the restaurant (board outside says Old Bridge Balkan Burgers) is similar to entering someone’s home, and the service is as courteous and considerate to reinforce that impression. This is the only Bosnian restaurant I’ve tried that doesn’t serve bureks, but you should only come here if you’re hankering for burgers. There are two competent versions available.
The first is the Pljeskavica. One bite into it, and you would realize that the Balkan cuisines have raised ground meat into an art form (my prior disappointing experience at Djerdan, notwithstanding). The extremely wide patty, served inside the large pita bread (not as fluffier as at Cevabdzinica, makes sense in a burger versus the thicker version with Cevapi) likely has some lamb mixed into the beef. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more cuts of meat that add firmness and flavor to the patty! The burger is served with chopped onions and ajvar (paprika, eggplant, red bell peppers) spread.
The other, my preferred, option is the Sarajevo burger. The ‘bun’ used is smaller than that for the Pljeskavica, but the patty has the same wonderful charred exterior and juicy interior. The taste is enhanced by the liberal use of Bulgarian feta cheese, in addition to tomatoes and lettuce. It’s still accompanied by the chopped onions and ajvar spread, though I find that the taste is enhanced by mixing in the Kemak (cream cheese /​clotted cream).
I’ve been the only customer here at both of my visits, and I’m hoping it was only because the visits were on warm, sunny days and that people were out and about. It would be a real shame if Old Bridge would lose out to the likes of Bareburger, 5 Napkin, and all the chains mushrooming across the city! C’mon Astoria, you deserve better. Recognize and appreciate the culturally rich dining options you have!

Burgers are big business these days in NYC, and come in all stripes. You got your horseradish-​cheddar cheeseburgers at Black Iron Burger; the Breslin’s famous lamb burger; or DuMont’s signature sandwich.
But at this throwback to 1980s Yugoslavia, you can try something bigger, and arguably better: pljeskavica, a dinner-​plate-​sized burger of beef, pork, veal and fatty lamb sandwiched between two buttery halves of pita. (I can’t be completely certain of the meats in this particular burger, but those are the usual suspects in ‘Balkan burgers.’)
To up the flavor factor, you’ll want to smear on some smooth kajmak, a sour-​cream-​like spread with a lactic tang, and ajvar, a roasted red pepper and olive oil paste. Then, dig in and let those juices flow. (from your mouth, and dripping from the burger) If you feel the need for a little greenery, a side salad, simply dressed with oil, vinegar and salt, comes for an additional $ 2 — at $ 12, this is an unbeatable price for a burger and salad.
There are a few nice sidewalk tables, where my friend and I sat. Indoors, it’s red vinyl booths and wood paneling – it almost seems as if you’ve walked into someone’s dining nook. And that’s how you’ll be served, too – as if you’re a friend of the family, just stopping by for a quick bite and something to drink.
The friendly waitress is Bosnian and informed us that some 5000 Bosnians live in Astoria alone, though she said that many of the once plentiful Bosnian restaurants, like this one, have been closing their doors lately. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen to Stari Most.

Came here with my sister when I was visiting Queens and I realllllly wish there was a place like this in Cali! I love cevapi and they make them really good here. If you want to try something new come support this local, family owned, one of a kind restaurant! I can’t wait to come back.

Since I never had Bosnian food before and this restaurant was in the area — a group of friends and I decided to try it.
Upon arriving at the restaurant its not quite clear where the front door is — it looks like the door to a home but when you walk in you are transported to Bosnia (at least how I imagine it might be with a red minimalist décor).
The restaurant has a very homely feel to it — and it seems that many of the customers are friends, coming and going, watching tv, or chatting… Since we had a good group we decided to order a variety of dishes to be able to try everything:
— Chevapy — Small grilled beef sausages served with lepina and chopped onion on the side.
— Pljeskavica — Beef patty served with lepina (bosnian bread), kajmak (sorta like sour cream), ajvar (Roasted Eggplant Pepper Spread) on the side
— Saravejo Sausages
— Saravejo Burger (with feta)
— lamb chop
— chicken shish kebab.
— Cabbage salad
Dessert:
— Pancakes (really just nutella crepes)
— Bosnian Coffee (like Turkish/​Armenian — Excellent)
Since this was my first time eating Bosnian food, I really have nothing to compare it too, but felt all the meats were very salty — and all the meat platters tasted exactly the same. The lepina which reminded me of a thicker, fluffier pita bread was really good.
Overall, I give this place a 3.5 stars. For the experience, I give the place a 4, 4 for the price ($ 60 for 5 pepole), and for the food a 3. Would I go back? Maybe — but only to show a curious friend what Bosnian food is like.
FYI: This place is a BYOB.

It’s also called Old Bridge but since I found it under Stari Most which is the Bosnian name of the restaurant, I’m copying and pasting my review in here too.
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Yes yes yes!
The only Bosnian place that I’ve been (see my list of Cevapi and such places) to that serves up their pljeskavica injected with cheese. The bf says, that’s how it really is in the old country. Anyway, It totally changes the entire eating experience. Think of the shroom burger from shake shack-​the one stuffed with cheese but 2x larger. I love seeing cheese ozzing. Served with Yugo staples-​avjar, sour cream, onions and pita.
They also serve other Yugo dishes-​cevapi, sarma, soups and salads.

Old Bridge serves the best Bosnian food in the city. It is a small, but homey restaurant, serving the traditional sausages (cevapi), succulent burgers, and other specialties. The food is always fresh and well-​prepared. If you order any grilled meat dish, do not forget to request a side of creamy spread (kajmak) and pepper dip (ajvar). They are both delish!
The service is efficient and happy to accommodate any special requests you may have. Totally worth the 45 minute trip from the Upper West Side.

Of the two Bosnian restaurants near the corner of 30^th Avenue and 42^nd Street in Astoria, Stari Most is the more formidable establishment on many terms. Walking in for the first time is bound to bring a smile to anyone, the red wine colored vinyl upholstery being so prominent. The dining room reads like it is someone’s living room, and walking in seemed to disturb them from TV for a moment until they realized we were paying clients. What I took to be a mother and son from then on treated us like family that had come to visit from the other side of the country. We felt comforted by the tapestries in the windows and pleasant music playing in the background.
The menu is similar to that of Ukus around the corner, but here we came for the pljeskavica ($ 9), and abnormally large «burger» inside of two delicious pita breads. We lathered it down with kaymak and ajvar before digging in with hands, then fork and knife as this proved difficult. The meat was soft and juicy, laced with onion throughout.
Splitting the gigantic 9″ diameter monster was probably more than enough to be a meal for two. We relaxed back in our chairs as Wheel of Fortune played on the fading television, content in our stuffed state but not ready to leave the friendly place. Eventually some other family members came and then a group of four mixed Balkan peoples.

I ate lunch a week or so ago at Stari Most, so I figure it’s about time I put my two cents in. It’s a pretty small place, with seating indoors and out. It’s frequented entirely by Bosnians, or so it seemed to me, so don’t be surprised if the waitress addresses you in the language (I’m not Bosnian, but I’m often mistaken for it). The waitress was super sweet, and when she found out that it was my first time there, she was really eager to please.
I ordered the cevapi (described by the waitress as «really healthy»… yeah, compared to, maybe, a diet of bologna and Milwaukee’s Best… maybe), little homemade sausages on chewy bread. It’s served with chopped raw onions, a tangy cheese, and a red sauce that seemed to be sweet red pepper-​based. It was a unique blend of flavors, and good, although it was CRAZY greasy and left me feeling a bit gross afterwards (probably because I’d just consumed a week’s worth of fat). The sandwich, the extra $ 1 for the cheese and red sauce combo, and a Coke set me back $ 8 altogether. I’ll probably go back to try out more of the menu.