Hidden Gem · 16
- Borovo Croatia
Vukovar, Croatia shoe factory founded June 1931 by Czech industrialist Tomas Bata as part of the Bata footwear empire; nationalized in 1945, it later created the Startas sneaker in 1976. store page → · open in the atlas → - Break Time Split / Croatia
Break Time is a Split, Croatia atelier handcrafting waterproof nautical bracelets, necklaces, and keyrings since 2015, with custom engraving available on stainless steel and rope designs. The brand has been featured in The New York Times and sells from its Split shop and worldwide online store. store page → · open in the atlas → - DORA Fashion Salon Zagreb, Online
A Zagreb salon for Croatian designer fashion — made-here dresses and tailoring sold where they're sewn. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ivana Bacura Zagreb, Online
Ivana Bacura hammers and casts her silver by hand in Zagreb — sculptural rings and pendants from a single-goldsmith atelier. store page → · open in the atlas → - Jozef Gjoni Goldsmith Jurišićeva 10
Goldsmith Jozef Gjoni creates with passion great collections of handmade gold, silver, antique and traditional jewelry embedded with precious stones, pearls and corals. store page → · open in the atlas → - Lapidarium Zagreb, Online
A Zagreb gallery-shop for contemporary Croatian jewelry and small objects — local makers, curated like exhibits, priced like secrets. store page → · open in the atlas → - Muzej Uja – Olive Oil Museum Škrip Škrip, Brač
A family-run olive oil museum in Škrip, the oldest village on Brač, set in a stone house that traces the island's oil-making with old presses and tools. The family produces and sells its own extra-virgin olive oil alongside the museum tour. store page → · open in the atlas → - Nadalina Split
Split's craft chocolate maker — Trinitario beans roasted and ground in small batches into bars and pralines with Dalmatian accents of fig, olive and carob. store page → · open in the atlas → - Poljoprivredna zadruga Postira (Postira Cooperative) Postira, Brač
The agricultural cooperative of Postira presses extra-virgin olive oil and makes wine from its members' groves and vineyards on the northern side of Brač. Its products are sold directly through the cooperative's own webshop and village outlet. store page → · open in the atlas → - Slatko kao Cukar Old Town / Online
Hand-painted ceramics, hand-poured candles and small-batch decorative pieces made through its Dubrovnik studio. store page → · open in the atlas → - Stina (Vina Brač 1903) Riva waterfront, Bol (Brač)
Housed in Bol's restored 1903 wine cooperative building on the Riva seafront, Stina makes wines from indigenous Dalmatian grapes grown on the island's stony terraces, including Plavac Mali, Pošip, and Vugava. The name means 'stone' in the local dialect, a nod to the white Brač limestone that shapes the vineyards, and the harborside tasting room pours the full range. store page → · open in the atlas → - Studio Naranča Old Town (Diocletian's Palace area) / Online
It is best known for Hand-painted silk scarves, ties, and accessories — original designs inspired by Dalmatian coast; each piece hand-painted with traditional silk painting techniques; unique wearable art. store page → · open in the atlas → - Take Me Home Tkalčićeva, Zagreb, Online
Take Me Home fixed the Zagreb souvenir — Croatian designers' prints, ceramics, socks and stories instead of fridge magnets, on Tkalčićeva. store page → · open in the atlas → - Uje Split & the coast, Online
Uje gathers Croatian olive oils, capers and coastal pantry products into shops along the Adriatic and an online store, presenting regional ingredients through a focused gourmet range. store page → · open in the atlas → - Vina Senjković Nerežišća, Brač
A family winery in the inland village of Nerežišća that bottles Plavac Mali and other Dalmatian varieties from vineyards on Brač's karst plateau. The cellar doubles as a konoba where the Senjković family serves its wines alongside island cooking. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zigante Tartufi (Zigante Truffles) Livade, central Istria, Croatia (truffle heartland; retail shops in Istrian towns)
Founded by Giancarlo Zigante, who once dug up a Guinness-record white truffle, this Istrian truffle house sells fresh truffles, oils, spreads and cheeses. Its own shops and a Livade restaurant carry the range. store page → · open in the atlas →
Worth a Detour · 1
- Vidović Winery Vis Town / Croatia
Vidović Winery grows organic Plavac Mali and Trebiano grapes on the island of Vis, pressing small batches near a tasting room set inside a Tyrolean-style house overlooking the family's thirty-year-old vineyard. Wine can only be tasted and purchased in person at the Dracevo Polje tasting room. store page → · open in the atlas →
The Register · 23
- Ark Books (Arka knjiga) Osijek / Croatia
Ark Books (Arka knjiga) is an antiquarian bookshop in Osijek presenting used and out-of-print titles across history, literature, science and reference. Its site displays a rotating stock of individual books by category for buyers to browse and enquire about. store page → · open in the atlas → - Chiavalon Salvela 50, Vodnjan, Istria, Croatia (~25–30 km from Rovinj)
This award-winning family producer in Vodnjan presses Istrian extra-virgin olive oil, offered as several blends in a visitor tasting room and shop. Olive-oil cosmetics, spreads, honey and gift boxes fill out the shelves. store page → · open in the atlas → - Clara Stones Old Town / Naljeskoviceva
Clara Stones shapes Adriatic red coral and other stones into contemporary necklaces, earrings and rings at its atelier on Naljeskoviceva in the Old Town. Collections such as Love Coral draw on Mediterranean coral, and the workshop sits alongside the shop and online store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Dubrovnik Olive Oil Dubrovnik (groves near Old Town)
Started by a family who moved from mechanical engineering into olive farming, Dubrovnik Olive Oil produces award-winning extra virgin oil from groves close to the Old Town. The owners, certified olive oil sommeliers, run tastings and farm tours and sell their own oil. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ezop Antikvarijat Osijek / Croatia
Ezop Antikvarijat has served Osijek since the early 2000s, buying and selling second-hand books, school textbooks, vinyl records, CDs, comics and old postcards. Its current Županijska 19 shop is complemented by an active online catalogue, preserving the feel of a neighborhood antiquarian bookseller while making its used-book and record stock searchable beyond Osijek. store page → · open in the atlas → - FARAC Filigree & Fine Jewelry Old Town
This family goldsmith works Croatian filigree in silver and gold from its own Dubrovnik workshop, setting pieces with authentic Adriatic red coral and precious and semi-precious stones. The range runs from traditional Dubrovnik designs to sea- and nature-inspired rings and earrings, sold in the shop and through the online store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Gamulin Chocolates Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia
Gamulin Chocolates hand-makes pralines and bars in Jelsa, working island ingredients such as carob, rosemary and sage into its chocolate rather than sourcing generic fillings. The shop has hosted wine-and-chocolate pairing events in Hvar's historic Arsenal alongside its everyday counter sales. store page → · open in the atlas → - Life According to Kawa Ploce (near Ploce Gate / Old Town)
Opened in 2016 near Dubrovnik's Ploce Gate, Kawa pairs Croatian-made fashion, jewellery and homewares with Cogito specialty coffee and an international grocery corner. A co-working area and a partnership with The Byron Dubrovnik round out the concept store. store page → · open in the atlas → - Medusa Gift and Art Shop Old Town / Prijeko
Run as a family business for over sixteen years on Prijeko street in the Old Town, Medusa gathers handcrafted Croatian goods including limestone jewellery, ceramics, silk ties, natural cosmetics and iron sculptures. It operates as a curated gift and art shop bringing the work of Croatian makers under one roof. store page → · open in the atlas → - Nadalina Chocolate Dioklecijanova 6, Split (Diocletian's Palace / Old Town)
Chocolates Nadalina is a Split-based chocolate maker with a shop inside Diocletian's Palace in the Old Town. The range spans chocolate bars, spreads, boxed chocolates, jumbo-format bars, organic bars, and specialty confections, alongside a separate Nadalina Spices line. store page → · open in the atlas → - OPG Jerolim Vela Luka, Korčula, Croatia
OPG Jerolim presses organic olive oil in Vela Luka under the protected Korčulansko Maslinovo Ulje designation, certified organic since 2013 and recognized with the Croatian Island Product label in 2017. Beyond the plain oil, the family farm infuses batches with basil, lemon, rosemary, and oregano, and turns the same olives and carob into soap, marmalade, and hydrosols. store page → · open in the atlas → - OPG Komparak Korčula town, Korčula, Croatia
OPG Komparak keeps roughly 24 million bees across two apiaries outside Korčula town, making it one of Dalmatia's larger honey producers despite its family-farm scale. The harvest ranges from heather and mandarin honey to the bitter, indigenous draca variety, alongside propolis and bitter-orange marmalade sold from an on-site tasting room. store page → · open in the atlas → - OPG Sinovčić Supetar / Croatia / Online
OPG Sinovčić has grown olives in Mirca on the island of Brač for more than 70 years, pressing small batches of extra virgin olive oil from its roughly 200 Oblica trees. Orders are placed online and picked up in person, cash only, at the family's house in Supetar. store page → · open in the atlas → - Podanje Prgovo Polje, Lastovo, Croatia
This family farm in the island's interior has grown its own olives, vegetables, and livestock since 2007, pressing olive oil and sun-drying tomatoes by hand between an old hornbeam tree and its olive groves. The same kitchen turns the harvest into peka-cooked meals and homemade spirits and bread served on-site. store page → · open in the atlas → - Podrum Šarić (Vina Šarić / Provin LNT) Gornja Luka, Lastovo, Croatia
Nives and Nenad Šarić rebuilt the family cellar below the village of Lastovo in 2008, continuing vineyards their ancestors planted on the island, and now bottle Rukatac, Plavac Mali, Pošip, and Grk from estate-grown grapes. Visitors can book a cellar tour and tasting directly through the winery rather than through a tourism agency. store page → · open in the atlas → - Seba Dizajn Korčula town, Korčula, Croatia
Seba Dizajn hand-forges traditional Dalmatian filigree jewelry from its Korčula workshop, twisting fine silver wire into the openwork pendants and earrings the technique is known for. The shop takes bespoke commissions alongside its ready-made pieces, sold both from the Korčula store and online. store page → · open in the atlas → - Sebastian Art Gallery Old Town / Sv. Dominika
Sebastian Art occupies a former church dating to 1469 beside the Dominican monastery on Sv. Dominika street, showing contemporary Croatian painters alongside naive art. Its gallery shop sells hand-made ceramics, replicas of church ornaments and traditional jewellery with international shipping. store page → · open in the atlas → - SECA Olive House Gdinj, Hvar Island, Croatia
Eva Marija Čurin runs the five-hectare SECA family farm above Gdinj on Hvar's eastern tip, cold-pressing extra virgin olive oil and flavoring batches with lemon, basil and chilli grown alongside the grove. The oil has taken a gold medal at the New York International Olive Oil Competition and a listing in the Flos Olei guide's top 500. store page → · open in the atlas → - Uje Oil Bar Dominisova 3, Old Town (Diocletian's Palace), Split
Uje Oil Bar is a Split tasting shop for Croatian extra virgin olive oils, alongside truffles, vinegars, wine, spices and other Dalmatian delicacies. It's the Old Town branch (Dominisova 3) of Uje's small network of oleotekas along the Croatian coast, billed as the country's first dedicated oil bar. store page → · open in the atlas → - Vina Rak Dubrava, Šibenik, Croatia
Vina Rak presses wine from the family's own vineyards in Dubrava, a hamlet just outside Šibenik, continuing an estate run as an obiteljsko gospodarstvo, a registered family farm business. The winery bottles its Dalmatian reds and whites under its own label and sells directly rather than through a distributor network. store page → · open in the atlas → - Vina Tomić Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia
Andro Tomić's winery in Jelsa champions Bogdanuša, a delicate white grape grown almost nowhere outside Hvar, alongside Pošip, Plavac Mali reds and a carob-and-sage Euforija liqueur. Premium bottlings such as Veliki Plavac Mali come from limited-production magnums drawn from the island's steep southern vineyards. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zlatan Otok Sveta Nedjelja, Hvar Island, Croatia
Zlatan Plenković planted his family's Zlatan Otok vineyards on Hvar's steep, sun-baked southern slopes above Sveta Nedjelja, terraces reachable mainly by boat that grow Plavac Mali and Pošip. The winery's Zlatan Plavac bottling, aged for years before release, is widely credited with raising the international profile of Dalmatian red wine. store page → · open in the atlas → - Zure Wines Lumbarda, Korčula, Croatia
The Batistić family farmed at Lumbarda long before formalizing Zure as a commercial winery in 1996, planting eight hectares on the peninsula's sandy soil in 2011. Every bottle, from the gold medal-winning Grk 'Bartul' to a Pošip, a Plavac Mali, and a sparkling Grk prosecco called Elysion, is made exclusively from the estate's own grapes. store page → · open in the atlas →