This is Belgrade, like you've never seen it before.
And we're showing you luxury living in the capital of Serbia.
We're taking you to my favorite throwback fine dining restaurant
where mobsters used to eat,
trying the best local and regional wines and brandies,
meeting successful entrepreneurs
who will tell you how the rich spend their money
and visiting some of the trendiest,
most unique boutiques in Serbia
to show you how to live like a king.
But first,
Lafayette is being called one of the sexiest cabaret shows in all of Europe.
This is where people come to see and be seen in Belgrade.
I feel Serbia was one of the more open places in the world, was it not?
Yeah, I'm smoking in the club.
This club to me, they're saying it's one of the sexiest places in Europe.
You will see it tonight.
This is a throwback, I mean, just the red velvet and it's such a throwback to...
Cabaret stuff or...
Cabaret of a previous era.
Yeah.
And that's so Belgrade to me.
It's classic, it's glam.
Everybody's involved in the show.
You are a button, a waiter.
Everybody needs to look very nice.
There's a sex appeal here.
Yeah, it's a dress code.
I want to make that like in 30s,
when you go to a club in Chicago, you need to be...
The Al Capone era.
That's exactly what this feels like.
I thought mad men, but maybe even going back to the 30s.
Yeah, yeah.
And some of the most beautiful people in the world live here in Belgrade.
That is true.
I had that opportunity to travel all around and the girls and guys as well.
There are so many beautiful people around here.
Many years ago, I met a Serbian girl, she said it's your last night, let's go out.
She said, I'll meet you at one o'clock.
I said, can we go a little earlier?
She said, that is a little earlier.
Yeah, yeah, that is.
I heard that the Belgrade is called the Sin City because of it.
Chivalry.
Thank you, Milan.
Yeah, thank you so much.
I don't normally do clubs.
That was pretty wild and pretty fun.
That's the best party in town.
And I still, what?
You can't hear.
You've lived here almost your entire life.
What's the vibe in Belgrade?
Well, it's a mixture of Cuba and China.
Cuba means China?
Well, somewhere in between.
What is that all about?
Well, from the one side, you have the wildest rhythms in the music and dance and everything.
And on the other side, you have a kind of discipline that you rarely find in western civilization today.
This is a culture I feel that very much is at the border of Europe,
but never entirely wanted to be European, just from the style and the way people live.
That is why I think we are creating our own system, our own path.
We are taking what's good from Europe and we are making up what is good from here.
This is a great book.
So it's Momo Kapoor, a guy to the serving mentality.
Anyone who wants to live even part-time in Belgrade should read this.
Should.
Understand it may be next door to Europe, but there's some differences.
Do you think it's pretty safe here in Belgrade?
Absolutely.
You know, nobody coming out of Lafayette at four in the morning would feel unsafe,
even if they had too many drinks.
No, never.
We're going to talk to some of the women we're meeting later,
but if you look at the statistics, one of the safer cities in Europe for women.
That's also my personal feeling really, and I live here for the whole of my life.
The scent of Belgrade is Tom Ford of Ben Formet, the smoke, the woody amber, the spices.
I first visited Belgrade ten years ago, and it stood as a place that just felt right compared to the
other cities in this region.
I'm a big believer in how does a place feel, and there was something about it.
There's an X factor in this city.
We've gone on to have people from Serbia be on our team.
We've got friends who have dozens of people working here, and it's been a beautiful thing.
Wine is a big part of Serbian culture.
We're going to check out a brand new, really sexy wine shop in the heart of Belgrade
and see all the great wines that this region has to offer.
Thanks for letting me.
Is this, this is brand new, yeah?
Yeah, we opened just for 20 days before.
20 days ago?
I was here six months ago, and I, I'd never seen you.
I love the neighborhood wine shops, but this is something else.
So if I come here and I want champagne.
From a champagne, we have just a Josef Peria.
What are the price points of wines?
We got upstairs the 8,000 euros wine.
8,000 euros bottles of wine here?
Sure.
We'll get to that in a minute.
Sure.
So Serbian wines, regional wines, some of the best I think.
Right.
Show us what are your favorites?
Temet winery for sure.
You like temet, and that's pretty affordable.
It is, yeah. 1,500 dinners.
Two dobra godina, that is about 150 euros.
She knows her stuff.
Do you want to just show us the 8,000, show us the 8,000 euro wine?
People want to, this is luxury living.
That's upstairs.
All right, we'll follow you upstairs.
So here's the one, Petrus Pomerol.
Yeah, I believe you know about Petrus Pomerol.
Those who know?
No.
Where are you from in Serbia?
I'm from a border with Romania.
Do you have any Romanian family members?
Oh no, no.
Nobody in the family?
Nobody.
You could get your Romanian citizenship.
Sure, sure.
I have to get the Cuban one.
You got to get the Cuban one.
There's no embargo here.
So capitalism is taking hold.
What are the areas where people are making more money here?
IT, online businesses.
Yeah.
New media.
You have good stuff from communism,
and mixed with the salaries in capital.
What are the good things, do you think?
Like education is free.
I went to the best college, I didn't pay a dime.
Health care is free.
I got a son now.
We didn't pay anything for the delivery,
for the checkups or anything like it was all paid for by the country.
And that's nice.
Talk about English.
This must be one of the best cities in the world
of non-native English speakers who speak English
almost everywhere in the city.
Yeah, because we don't have a synchronized television shows
like in Germany or other countries in Balkan.
Just subtitles.
And we learn English from cartoons, from movies.
Do you see more Serbians who have maybe moved to France
or Germany over the years coming back
because they think it's better here?
I have quite a few friends who lived in the States and Canada
and then decided after, you know, 10 years or 20 years of the career there,
they can probably keep the same job remotely
and then just move back.
Without work culture.
Without, yeah.
And then actually when you said that
a lot of them actually got kids
that were supposed to start school
and they didn't want their kids to go to school
in the States or in the Canada, so they moved back.
If you're a freelancer or if you run a business,
there are some good tax regimes.
Freelancers I think if you make up to 50,000 euros,
depending on what it is, you can pay like two,
300 euros a month in tax, flat.
Flat rate.
And then you get to make up to 50,000 euros.
So for someone who just has a small business, that works.
I understand there's like a book where it's like,
okay, uh-huh, you live in Chachik, okay, uh-huh.
Okay, photography, P, P, uh-huh, okay.
293 euros a month, that's what you owe.
And then you just make up to that, you keep your voice up.
We all have our companies
and then we are all small entrepreneurs on the side.
Small entrepreneurs.
If I came with my foreign company,
that's actually what's also easier
is I can run that foreign company
and there's less involvement from Serbia.
Even if I live here all year long,
then again, if I live in Germany
and they suck everything into their system,
how do wealthy people live well in Serbia these days?
I don't know.
He's very modest.
Yeah, it's great.
Belgrade especially is great.
If you have enough money,
if you have international clients
and receiving dollars
and spending good dinners in Serbia,
this is the heaven.
Especially Belgrade is a hub for nightlife.
It's interesting because we'll go to Frange tonight
and you can get a table at Frange
at seven o'clock at night
and you'll stay till one in the morning
in Germany, in the UK.
You have your one hour and 45 minutes
and off you go.
It's different.
You start with the dinner
and then there's some live music
and then you start drinking
and it kind of slowly turns into a party.
But you need to pay for a whole table
not just for you.
That is the difference here, right?
Very different.
People are more traditional.
Men pay and men fight for the bill.
So there's no bill splitting
that's very uncommon occurrence.
Usually one person pays
and then the next time
the other person pays.
What a split white.
And so on, yeah.
Let's have lunch and I'm paying.
It was interesting that our lunch guest said
he was offered a US green card
and he didn't want it.
He didn't want the tax liability.
I think you see a lot more people
in countries like Serbia saying
I don't need the US.
I don't need Europe.
We have a lot going on here.
Plenty of ways to make money.
We're just a few stops away
from one of the most unique
and politically incorrect
fine dining experiences
you'll ever see anywhere in the world.
But now we're going to go and check
out Serbian fashion
and we have something every Serbian loves.
Plasma biscuits.
There's not a lot of flavor to these things.
I have to be honest.
Everyone eats these from three years old.
This is the brand everybody loves.
This is a fashion mecca, I think.
People understand fashion
but it's a little wild.
It's a little unique.
How do you describe Serbian fashion in general?
I think it has a lot of varieties.
It's a small market
but like a market
of totally different sensibilities,
you know,
but the ones that are at the top
are usually the most commercial ones.
More commercial.
But it's not as buttoned up here
as say somewhere in Northern Europe.
No, of course not.
It's not as streamlined as even Moscow.
I think that maybe there's two looks.
You have the guys who are super athletic
and it's just kind of like workout stuff
and then the guys who are very polished.
But we just met two guys for lunch.
These guys, I mean, it's the jackets fit perfectly.
Yeah, they tend to be a bit of Italian.
So like over here,
this is, I feel like,
especially for menswear,
you know, men here are pretty athletic.
I mean, you've got these kind of,
I mean, athletic pieces.
Yeah, it's a mixture, you know,
as you can see,
this is a classic piece,
but you know, with this
drawstring kind of casual items.
Yeah, yeah, it brings out kind of a casual vibe.
This is my jam for Porta Montenegro.
Sitting coffee on the beach.
Absolutely.
This is the look.
Talk about swimwear culture here.
What are the swimwear looks?
For example, Reina Olga.
She's very, very recognizable in the world.
It's an Italian brand,
but she brought back the scrunchy material from the...
She's really a throwback.
Yeah, from the 80s.
In the last couple of seasons,
the cuts and the sexiness of the swimwear
is very becoming,
you know, very, very edgy.
Yeah, yeah, it's very...
You did the wrong thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's nice to hear that.
I'm seeing more improvements here in Belgrade
in recent years.
You've got new restaurants, new bars,
new social clubs,
and the quality, the aesthetic is increasing.
This is the best gelato in the city.
Get a cone, take home a tub.
You won't regret it.
Yagata and cocoa.
Welcome.
My name is George,
and the co-owner of this nice place,
Planeta Vina.
This has been my favorite neighborhood wine shop
for years.
George is going to tell us
the different wine regions in Serbia.
I want just to start from this part of Serbia,
the center of Serbia.
We have really nice wine from Shumaria.
I think the best Cabernet
coming from the east of Serbia
from a part of Nagotin.
So this was Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Yeah.
This was Ottoman Empire.
Yeah, Ottoman Empire.
And so up here,
the northern part of Serbia is
well-theory.
You've got smaller production,
is my understanding.
15, 20 years ago,
we started to renew
that small vineyard,
this boutique vineyard,
like we like to say.
The part of North Bacca,
we call it Bacca,
also this part of,
we call it Banat.
Banat, Bacca, and...
This is Srem.
Srem and Bacca, Banat.
The three regions of...
Vojvodina, northern Serbia.
Yeah, north part of Serbia, yeah.
And then the Shumaria
is sort of like the Ohio
or the midlands of Serbia.
We can compare like that.
Which country in the Balkans
has the best wine?
That's a loaded question.
Huh!
Oh, that is very...
That is a very intimate question.
I like all Balkanese wine,
yeah, but in my opinion,
I can tell just one country,
you know.
But North Macedonia...
I think it's Macedonia.
Yeah, and it's always
Macedonia to us, right?
As well, yeah.
It was Macedonia.
We don't care what the Greeks
have to say.
Yeah, we know Greeks now.
But Macedonia, north Macedonia, north Macedonia, yeah.
I'm going to get this one.
Okay.
Always get the comments.
And by the way,
later we've got the fine dining experience
with a special guest from Lieberland
right here along the Danube
where some of these wines are made.
So stick around.
This is Belgrade Skadarlija neighborhood.
It's authentic Serbian cuisine
served on checkered tablecloths.
You've got folk music.
You've got flowers.
We're going to go meet some of my colleagues
and talk about whether it's safe to live in Serbia
and what's happening at Nomad Capitalist.
I'm looking for Maria and Natasha.
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This is his plumber.
Yeah, this is very, very typical.
And this is his queens.
Thank you.
I have to be honest,
I'm going to stick more to the lemonade.
I'm going to sip so that they're happy with me.
Okay.
We say Zivelli.
Zivelli.
This is like some kind of like
soprano's back room meeting kind of stuff.
So the question that a lot of women ask is,
is this country safe for women to live?
Yeah.
I think very good question overall
and a lot of our clients
that are coming to Serbia have the same.
I think Serbia is very safe
when you're with the right people
in the right crowd,
in the right places like this
in the city center,
I think Serbia is very safe.
The statistics show it's actually a lot safer,
especially for violent crime
and crime against women
than a lot of places in northern and western Europe.
Is that your feeling?
That's my feeling absolutely.
And that's the same impression
that I got from the clients
coming to Serbia as well.
I remember during COVID,
a lot of people were interested here
because they came from Australia,
they came from the UK,
they came from places that had
more oppressive conditions.
And they said,
this is a place that just feels more open.
Even if the stated policy
is a bit more strict,
in reality it's relaxed.
That's correct.
Like when we don't like something here,
we kind of like to raise the word
and say that we're not happy.
So for sure I think that here
many things are not enforced
and you can definitely relax,
you can have fun,
and you can have the life that you want.
Civil disobedience is in vogue.
The guys at lunch said,
yeah, we don't take a lot of crap.
What is the trend now
of what people are looking for?
I think overall people want more options.
They want to be diversified,
they don't want to set up just in one country.
And I think this place is great
for someone who wants something
around Eastern Europe and this region.
So plan B has made way for plan B, C, D.
Exactly.
And this is not a place
that you have to live in full-time.
It's not a place you even have to live in much at all.
But you can put a country like this
in your back pocket.
One of the top priorities for our clients
is to reduce their taxes,
but they would also like to move to another country
where they value more personal freedom
and lifestyle.
So it's not just about zero tax now.
Exactly.
It's about paying a reasonable amount of tax.
And you're seeing basically more people saying,
I'll pay something,
but I don't want to be overtaxed.
And I want to get a good lifestyle
and be left alone, basically.
Exactly.
All right, ladies, it's been a pleasure.
Keep up the good work.
We're up to dinner with Lieberland.
Belgrade has so many fine dining options,
including the Michelin-listed Salon 1905,
where we've hosted client dinner parties
for nomadic Alps.
I hosted my birthday party during COVID.
They have a great prefix menu,
and it is one of the top places to go.
But now we're going to go to dinner at Fringe.
This is a Belgrade institution.
It's been here for years.
Everybody knows it, and it's a real throwback.
You can spend the entire night here
eating and drinking and joking with the waiters.
General.
Yes, sir.
At the beginning, some white wine,
like always or something else.
Yeah, what's the, um, is the tigvesh?
Yes, just that.
I can donate tigvesh.
And let's take a menu.
I feel here a little bit too hot.
Chinese is not good.
Japanese.
You know what?