Klub književnika, Belgrade

In addition to an endless list of Serbian and Yugoslav writers who frequented the restaurant over the years such as Momo Kapor, Bogdan Tirnanić, Ivo Andrić, Danilo Kiš, Dobrica Ćosić, Miodrag Bulatović, Matija Bećković, Miroslav Krleža, Miloš Crnjanski, Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz, Duško Radović, Predrag Palavestra, Mirko Kovač, Zuko Džumhur, Borislav Pekić, etc., Klub književnika was often visited by various other artists, politicians, journalists, and diplomats.

Managed at the time by Ivo Kusalić and Nikola Bosanac it quickly established itself as the place to be among the country's main decision makers, and thus began to be frequented by top Yugoslav communist political and military officials such as the foreign minister Koča Popović, Rodoljub Čolaković, Draža Marković, general Peko Dapčević, etc.

Actors Ljubinka Bobić, Jovan Milićević, Ljubiša Jovanović, Zoran Radmilović, Bata Stojković, Olivera Katarina, film directors Žorž Skrigin, Vojislav Nanović, and Radoš Novaković, painters Dragan Malešević Tapi, Petar Lubarda and Milo Milunović, academician Pavle Savić were a regular sight at the club.

Restaurant would especially see a lot of famous foreigners during festivals such as FEST, BITEF, or BEMUS so that Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Czesław Miłosz, Samuel Beckett, Oriana Fallaci, Marlon Brando, Jean-Claude Pascal, Monica Vitti, Maria Schneider, Silvana Mangano, Rod Taylor, Sofia Loren, Gianni Agnelli, Günter Grass, Burt Lancaster, Robert De Niro, among others, visited Klub književnika.

Therefore, like other famous kafane in communist Yugoslavia, Klub književnika also featured police informants dressed in civilian clothing, mingling in with other patrons, listening to vox populi and reporting potentially incendiary talk and ideas to their higher ups.

Reportedly, visits from Western journalists and diplomats were often accompanied by Yugoslav state security operatives who would on those occasions also show up at the restaurant with clandestine listening devices.

In the early morning hours of 15 February 1997, another well-known career gangster 46-year-old Rade "Ćenta" Ćaldović was murdered in his Renault Espace parked in front of Klub književnika along with his 24-year-old girlfriend Maja Pavić, presenter on TV Pink and Ceca's maid-of-honour at hers and Arkan's wedding.

[7] In early summer 2008 Buda Blagojević decided to sell Klub književnika's ownership rights to Zoran "Brija" Lazarević (well known Belgrade restaurateur and owner of Madera and Kalmegdanska terasa)[8] after managing the club in various capacities for over 50 years.