Vojvodina restaurant food prices up 10%, Serbia up 6%
Serbia's statistics office says hospitality prices rose 5.1% year on year, with ready meals up 8.4%. In Vojvodina, hospitality prices rose 7.6%.
Hospitality prices in Serbia were 5.1% higher in September 2026 than in September 2025, according to the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (RZS). Food in restaurants and other hospitality venues rose 6%, and in Vojvodina by as much as 10%.
What got the most expensive in Serbian restaurants?
The biggest annual increase recorded by RZS is for ready meals, which cost 8.4% more. Stews, bread and cakes follow, while roasts and made-to-order dishes rose the least among food items:
- ready meals: 8.4%
- stews: 7.9%
- bread: 7%
- cakes: 6.9%
- hot and cold starters: 6%
- roasts and made-to-order dishes: 4.4%
Drinks rose less than food. Alcoholic drinks are up 4.7% and soft drinks 5.1%, while accommodation prices rose 2.3%.
How much higher are restaurant prices in Vojvodina?
In Vojvodina, hospitality services cost 7.6% more, well above the national average of 5.1%. Food rose 10%, against 6% across Serbia, a gap of four percentage points. Alcoholic drinks are up 6% and soft drinks 6.2%.
Accommodation moves in the opposite direction. According to RZS data, it is 0.9% cheaper in Vojvodina than in September last year, unlike the other items listed, which all rose. Nationwide, accommodation is 2.3% more expensive.
How does September compare with July?
RZS earlier published figures for July 2026. Hospitality services were then 5.6% more expensive than in July 2025, ready meals 10.8% and stews 9.1%. The September rates are lower: the overall rise in service prices slowed from 5.6% to 5.1%, and for ready meals from 10.8% to 8.4%, a drop of 2.4 percentage points.
Two things need to be kept apart. A lower annual rate does not mean prices fell, only that the increase over the same month a year earlier is smaller than it was in July. Ready meals remain the item with the largest increase in hospitality, and their rise is almost twice that of roasts and made-to-order dishes (4.4%).
All of the percentages above compare a month with the same month a year earlier, not with the previous month. They therefore cannot show how much prices changed between July and September, only how far above the level of a year earlier they stood in each of those two months.
