Submarine Burger Zagreb: Locations, Menu, Hours
Where to find Zagreb's home-grown burger chain, which of its 12 city addresses to pick, what to order and what reviewers say, checked on 1 November 2026.
Photo: Mark Ahsmann, CC BY-SA 3.0
Submarine Burger is a craft burger chain born in Zagreb, with 12 locations in the city, and the one to visit first is the original at Frankopanska 11 in the Lower Town. It opens daily at 11:00 and closes at 23:00 Sunday to Thursday and at midnight on Friday and Saturday (official hours, checked on 1 November 2026). Order an Original or a Truffle shuffle smash with the truffle and Grana Padano fries. There are two vegan burgers. There is nothing gluten-free.
Submarine opened on Frankopanska in June 2014. Twelve years on it has a Zagreb Burger Festival win, two appearances on a European best-burgers list and a supply chain built almost entirely on Croatian produce. That last point is the reason I wanted to write this guide. Below are every Zagreb address with its hours, the menu, delivery, and what reviewers praise and complain about. For the wider picture, start with our Zagreb burger hub.
Submarine Burger Zagreb at a glance
Submarine Burger is a Croatian chain of company-owned craft burger restaurants, founded in Zagreb in 2014, that says about 99% of its ingredients are local.
- Founded: June 2014, Frankopanska, Zagreb (Total Croatia News, tportal)
- Founders: Dragoljub Božović (founder and CEO) and Aleksandar Lazinica (co-founder and co-owner) (Croatia Week)
- Zagreb locations: 12, out of 22 in Croatia (official locations page)
- Ownership: every restaurant is company-owned, with no franchises
- Payment: all cards accepted
- Delivery: Wolt and Glovo
- Vegan: yes, two vegan burgers
- Gluten-free: no, every product contains gluten (official FAQ)
Submarine Burger Frankopanska: the original Zagreb address
The original Submarine Burger is at Frankopanska 11, 10000 Zagreb, in the Lower Town (Donji grad), where the chain opened in June 2014.
This is where I would send a first-time visitor. It is the founding restaurant, it is a short walk from Ban Jelačić Square, and it shares the chain’s latest weekend closing time with Bogovićeva. The phone number is +385 1 4831 500, listed on the official Zagreb page and confirmed by Tripaligner.
Tripaligner lists card payment, table service, Wi-Fi, a terrace, takeaway and alcohol at Frankopanska. I could not find a reliable source for accessibility, parking or the nearest tram stop, so check the ZET tram map before you go.
Map of central Zagreb with the marker on Submarine Burger Frankopanska 11 (45.8120, 15.9696). Bogovićeva 7 is about 400 m east, near Cvjetni trg, and Tkalčićeva 12 is north of Ban Jelačić Square. (Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)
Submarine Burger Zagreb opening hours
Submarine Burger Frankopanska opens at 11:00 every day and closes at 23:00 Sunday to Thursday and at midnight on Friday and Saturday, according to the official site on 1 November 2026.
Older listings disagree. Time Out Croatia and Wanderlog still give Frankopanska’s Sunday hours as 13:00 to 21:00. I went with the chain’s own page because it is the most recent source. If you are planning a late Sunday dinner, call first.
| Day | Frankopanska 11 hours |
|---|---|
| Monday to Thursday | 11:00–23:00 |
| Friday and Saturday | 11:00–00:00 |
| Sunday | 11:00–23:00 |
No Zagreb branch lists hours past midnight. Your latest options are Frankopanska and Bogovićeva on Friday and Saturday.
All 12 Submarine Burger locations in Zagreb
Submarine Burger has 12 restaurants in Zagreb: three in the centre, six in other neighbourhoods and three in shopping malls, all listed on the official site as of 1 November 2026.
| Location | Area | Phone | Hours (official, checked 1 Nov 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frankopanska 11 | Lower Town | +385 1 4831 500 | Mon–Thu 11:00–23:00, Fri–Sat 11:00–00:00, Sun 11:00–23:00 |
| Bogovićeva 7 | Lower Town | +385 1 6272 690 | Mon–Thu 11:00–23:00, Fri–Sat 11:00–00:00, Sun 11:00–23:00 |
| Tkalčićeva 12 | Tkalčićeva street | +385 1 5533 115 | Daily 11:00–23:00 |
| Bukovačka 27 | Maksimir | +385 1 5807 143 | Daily 11:00–23:00 |
| Radnička 52 | Radnička cesta | +385 1 2727 299 | Mon–Thu 11:00–22:00, Fri–Sat 11:00–23:00, Sun 12:00–18:00 |
| Slavonska avenija 26/1 | Slavonska avenija | +385 91 1333 604 | Mon–Fri 11:00–23:00, Sat 12:00–23:00, Sun 13:00–20:30 |
| Zagrebačka cesta 211 | Zagrebačka cesta | +385 1 5505 137 | Daily 11:00–23:00 |
| Ulica Andrije Žaje 51 | Andrije Žaje | +385 1 5804 289 | Daily 11:00–23:00 |
| Ulica Brune Bušića 15 | Brune Bušića | Not listed in full | See the official page |
| Arena Centar | Mall | +385 1 5576 037 | Daily 10:00–21:30 |
| City Centar East | Mall | +385 1 5572 711 | Daily 10:00–22:00 |
| Supernova Garden Mall | Mall | +385 1 5534 968 | Daily 10:00–21:00 |
Source: Submarine Burger Zagreb locations page. The page is in Croatian, and ‘radno vrijeme’ means opening hours.
Which Submarine Burger to choose in Zagreb
For a visitor, Frankopanska is the pick; Bogovićeva 7 and Tkalčićeva 12 are the two other central options.
Bogovićeva 7 is also in the Lower Town, a few minutes’ walk east, and keeps the same hours. Tkalčićeva 12 opened in autumn 2019 on the bar street that climbs toward the Upper Town. It closes at 23:00 every night, and it is the one I would choose before a night out. The mall branches open at 10:00 and suit a shopping day, but they close earliest of all.
The building at Bogovićeva 7 in Zagreb’s Lower Town, which now houses a Submarine Burger branch, photographed in January 2016 with café terraces along the pedestrian street. The photo does not show the restaurant’s front. (Photo: MirkoS18, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old\_building\_of\_Serbian\_Orthodox\_Secondary\_School\_1\_(Bogovi%C4%87eva\_7).JPG)
Tkalčićeva Street at dusk, Zagreb’s bar street below the Upper Town, with the bell tower of St Mary’s Church at the far end. Submarine Burger opened at number 12 in autumn 2019. Photo from 2008, so the restaurant is not shown. (Photo: Modzzak, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tkalciceva,\_Zagreb.JPG)
Submarine Burger Zagreb menu
The Submarine Burger menu has six signature beef burgers, five smash burgers, two chicken burgers and two vegan burgers, with fries made from potatoes grown in Lika.
Beef burgers and smash burgers
The signature burgers are the Original, Smokehouse, Country burger, Italian burger, French burger and Monster, each available as a single or a double.
Any burger can come in a brioche bun, a vegan bun or a lettuce wrap. The smash line adds the Jalapeno smash, Truffle shuffle smash, Beast smash, All American and a plain Smash burger. The two chicken options, the Spicy chicken burger and the Chicken burger, use breaded free-range chicken.
Vegan burgers in Zagreb at Submarine
Submarine serves two vegan burgers, the Italian Vegan and the Original Vegan, with either a homemade organic vegetable patty or a Beyond Meat patty.
Vegan dishes are flagged on the menu, and HappyCow lists several Submarine branches. For a plant-based burger in the centre, it is the simplest option in town. Coeliacs are out of luck: the official FAQ says every product contains gluten. A chain this size could offer at least one gluten-free bun, and I hope it will.
Fries, salads and desserts
The house fries are “Lički” fries, made from Lika potatoes and served classic, with cheese, as salchipapas, with truffle, with truffle and Grana Padano, or as beast fries.
The menu also lists four “superfood” salads: Submarine Caesar, Avocado Chicken Caprese, Super protein salad and Pesto chicken salad. For dessert there is the Lucky’s (ice cream, cookie crumble and Nutella) and Aroma gelato. On Sundays, children under 10 get a free kids’ menu with every adult burger ordered (official menu). For a family, that makes Sunday lunch the best-value visit of the week.
Submarine Burger Zagreb menu prices
The official Submarine menu shows no prices, and on 1 November 2026 I could not confirm a current euro price for any Zagreb branch, so this guide does not publish one.
Be wary of the prices you find online. Time Out’s 2018 review quotes 34 to 90 kuna, but Croatia replaced the kuna with the euro on 1 January 2023, and the menu has changed since. For today’s prices, open the Submarine page on Wolt or Glovo and pick a Zagreb branch. I will add verified euro prices here once I have checked them at the source. Frankly, a chain that markets itself on transparent sourcing should put its prices on its own menu.
Local ingredients: Croatian beef, Lika potatoes and škripavac cheese
About 99% of Submarine’s ingredients are local, according to the chain’s FAQ, and the brand names the regions they come from.
The chain’s FAQ and tportal name Croatian beef, bread from a Zagreb bakery, potatoes from Lika, škripavac cheese, Slavonian sausage, Istrian truffle and Dalmatian pancetta (official FAQ, tportal). Škripavac is a fresh cow’s milk cheese that squeaks against the teeth, hence the name. In my view this sourcing, more than any single burger, is what separates Submarine from the global chains in town.
Škripavac, the fresh cow’s milk cheese from Otočac in Lika that squeaks against the teeth. It is one of the Croatian ingredients in Submarine Burger’s menu. Product photo, not taken at Submarine. (Photo: Roberta F., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skripavac\_0808.jpg)
Submarine Burger Zagreb reviews
Reviewers praise Submarine’s juicy burgers and its truffle and Grana Padano fries, and criticise prices they find high for the portion size.
On Wanderlog and HappyCow, the compliments keep returning to the fries, juicy patties, friendly staff and the open kitchen. The complaints are just as consistent: prices that feel steep for the portion, fries that are sometimes overcooked, and a cramped dining room at Frankopanska. I have not scored Submarine, because this guide is built from official data, dated sources and review platforms rather than a rated visit.
Time Out Croatia gave Submarine 4 out of 5 in 2018. That review predates the euro and the current menu, so read it as background, not a current verdict.
Is Submarine the best burger in Zagreb?
Submarine has the strongest public track record of any burger chain born in Zagreb. It won the 2016 Zagreb Burger Festival and was the only Croatian entry on Big 7 Travel’s 50 Best Burgers in Europe in 2019.
- Zagreb Burger Festival 2016: winner, with an average score of 4.8 out of 5 (Time Out Croatia, 7 October 2016).
- Big 7 Travel, 50 Best Burgers in Europe: 26th in February 2019, the only Croatian burger on the list (Croatia Week), and listed again in the 2024 edition (tportal).
- Financial Times, 2021: among the 1,000 fastest-growing companies in Europe and, according to Croatia Week, the only non-tech company from Southeast Europe on the list (Croatia Week).
Awards are not a tasting, and the most recent one dates from 2024. Still, I know of no other Zagreb-born burger with the same mix of festival, ranking and business recognition. Compare it with the other spots on our Zagreb burger hub.
The story of Submarine Burger
Submarine Burger started as one restaurant on Frankopanska in June 2014 and has grown into a chain of 22 Croatian locations, all company-owned.
The name comes from the Beatles song “Yellow Submarine”, and the founders dropped “Yellow” for copyright reasons (Total Croatia News). By its tenth birthday in May 2024, the chain claimed 18 restaurants in Croatia and more than 200 employees.
Submarine Burger’s growth in Croatia: 1 restaurant on Frankopanska in June 2014, 18 at its tenth anniversary in May 2024 (tportal) and 22 on the official locations page on 1 November 2026, 12 of them in Zagreb. (Chart: Burger Breton, data from Total Croatia News, tportal and submarineburger.com/lokacije, rendered with QuickChart; original work, CC BY 4.0)
Outside Zagreb, the official site lists restaurants in Rijeka, Split, Zadar, Osijek, Pula, Varaždin and Rovinj, the newest of them, opened in 2026. The chain tested a dark kitchen in Bucharest in December 2021, but no foreign address appears on its site today. For now Submarine is a Croatian chain, not an international one.
Delivery and booking
You can order Submarine Burger for delivery in Zagreb through Wolt and Glovo. Large orders go by email to info@submarineburger.com.
The official FAQ says nothing about table reservations, so expect to walk in. Heading to Frankopanska on a Friday or Saturday evening? Call +385 1 4831 500 first.
FAQ: Submarine Burger Zagreb
How many Submarine Burger restaurants are there in Zagreb? There are 12, according to the official site on 1 November 2026: Frankopanska 11, Bogovićeva 7, Tkalčićeva 12, Bukovačka 27, Radnička 52, Slavonska avenija 26/1, Zagrebačka cesta 211, Ulica Andrije Žaje 51 and Ulica Brune Bušića 15, plus the Arena Centar, City Centar East and Supernova Garden Mall branches.
What is the address of the first Submarine Burger? The first Submarine Burger is at Frankopanska 11, 10000 Zagreb, in the Lower Town. It opened in June 2014.
Is Submarine Burger open on Sunday? Yes. Frankopanska, Bogovićeva, Tkalčićeva, Bukovačka, Zagrebačka cesta and Andrije Žaje open from 11:00 to 23:00 on Sunday. Radnička 52 opens from 12:00 to 18:00 and Slavonska avenija from 13:00 to 20:30. The mall branches keep their daily hours, from 10:00.
Does Submarine Burger have vegan or gluten-free burgers? It has two vegan burgers, the Italian Vegan and the Original Vegan, with a homemade organic veg patty or a Beyond Meat patty. There is no gluten-free option: every product contains gluten.
Can I get Submarine Burger delivered in Zagreb? Yes, through Wolt and Glovo. Card payment is accepted in every restaurant.
Do I need to book a table? The official site does not mention reservations. Walk in, or call the branch before a busy weekend evening.
How much does a burger cost at Submarine? The official menu does not show prices. Check current euro prices on Wolt or Glovo for a Zagreb branch, and ignore the kuna prices from before 2023.
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