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Russian cuisine
Russian cuisine has been widely popular for a long time and there are numerous
Russian restaurants all over the world so you will certainly not be surprised
by dishes like borshch, pelmeni and bliny with caviar. Therefore we tried to
choose some specialities that you will only find in our city. At "Gold
Ostap" there is a dish for real gourmets! - Venison on Stewed Sauerkraut
with Cranberry and Whortleberry sauce. The main secret of its preparation is
that the meat is soaked in a special marinade of olive oil, thyme and white
wine to make it tender and succulent. A well-known factory-owner named Demidov
always asked for this dish when he arrived in the Urals. It is thought to put
you in a good, lively mood. The restaurant also serves great borshch, solyanka,
"Hangover" shchi, boullion with little pancakes and a great many other
dishes that are the pride of Russian cuisine.
Kalinka-Malinka
The best dishes of Russian traditional cuisine. A wide range of Russian alcoholic drinks.
The interior is dedicated in the national style. Also offers a folklore show.
Open: daily
Address: 5 Italianskaya Str. |
1913
Russian restaurant, serving traditional St.Petersburg cuisine. A cool, unpretentious interior of
two tiers (the upper the more sophisticated), and a location near both the Astoria Hotel
and Marinsky Theatre, make it a sensible place to eat for anyone pushed for
time but
wanting quality food. Music shows.
Open: daily
Address: 13/2 Voznesensky Pr. |
Old Custom House (Staraya Tamozhnya)
This Tsarist-era customs house on the spit of Vasilyevsky Island has been painstakingly
restored with the kind of theme-park touches that usually indicate a culinary no-go area.
Food is an eclectic mix of Russian and European cuisine, it is delicious from the foie gras
starters to the crepes Suzette dessert. Enticing ambience and flawless service ensures
that the city’s nouveau riche stay on board. Follow the cavalcade of Mercedes.
Open: daily
Address: 1 Tamozhenny walley |
Admiralty
The menu features authentic Russian cuisine with its world-famous borsch, pirozhki,
and bliny
with caviar and vodka. Traditional folk performance.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: Tues-Sat 6.00 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.
Address: Nevskij Palace Hotel, 57 Nevsky Pr. |
The Admiralty in Pushkin
Cosy atmosphere, "maritime style" decor. Wide choice of Russian and European
cuisine.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily from noon to 11 p.m.
Address: Catherine Park, Pushkin |
Antwerpen
Grand cafe. Russian and European cuisine. High-style decor and music. Superb atmosphere
for a family dinner, a business lunch or an intimate supper. Live music daily. Exclusive
Russian balalaika program available by prior arrangement.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon to midnight
Address: 13/2 Kronverksky Pr. |
Austeria
Russian and Old Russian cuisine. Wide selection of drinks and dishes at moderate prices.
Superb 18th century Dutch interior.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily, noon to midnight
Address: Ioann's Ravelin, Peter&Paul Fortress |
Caviar Bar
Classic ambience, full Russian menu, superb selection of vodka and caviar. Live music.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily 6.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m.
Address: Grand Hotel Europe, 1/7 Mikhailovskaya Str. |
Count Suvorov
Russian and European cuisine of the very highest standard with incomparable dishes from
the Court of Her Imperial Majesty. Musical perfomances in the evening.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon until the last customer leaves
Address: 26 Sadovaya Str. |
Davidov's
Russian cuisine. Extensive choice of caviar, vodka, Russian starters, main courses and
desserts. Breakfast served daily from 7.00 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. Live gypsy music from 7.30
p.m.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily 7.00 a.m. to 11.00 p.m.
Address: Astoria Hotel, 39 Bolshaya Morskaya Str. |
Demidov
Exquisite Russian cuisine based on old recipes. Dishes of Siberian forest game and fish
from the Yenisey, Ob and Lena rivers (sterlet, omul. eel). Live music. Evenings of Russian
and Gypsy perfomances. Georgian cuisine cafe.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon until the last customer leaves
Address: 14 Fontanka Emb. |
The Noble Nest
The restaurant is situated in a tea pavilion of the Yusupov Palace. Exclusive cuisine, extensive
wine list. Live music daily from 8.00 p.m.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon until the last customer leaves
Address: 12 Dekabristov Str. |
Flora
Russian and European cuisine in an old country estate atmosphere,
accompanied by string perfomances. Cakes and pastries baked according to original recipes.
Music and entertainment show with the "Flora" ballet Fri-Sat
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily 1.00 p.m until the last customer leaves
Address: 5 Kamennoostrovsky Pr. |
Imperial
European and Russian cuisine. Sunday jazz brunch served noon to 4.00 p.m.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily
Address: Nevskij Palace Hotel, 57 Nevsky Pr. |
Na zdorovye!
Russian and Soviet cuisine. Live folk and gypsy music.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: Tues-Sun noon to 11.00 p.m.
Address: 13/4 Bolshoy Pr., Petrogradskaya Storona |
Olius
Old Russian recipes. Friendly atmosphere. Romance, American classical, and
modern, music is performed on stage. Gypsy music by prior arrangement.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon until the last customer leaves
Address: 6/8 7th Krasnoarmeyskaya Str. |
Podvorie
Russian cuisine. Folk show.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon to 11.00 p.m.
Address: 16 Filtrovskoye schosse, Pavlovsk |
Poruchik Rzhevsky
Russian cuisine restaurant/bar. Intellectually frivolous atmosphere.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon until the last customer leaves
Address: 26 Sadovaya Str. |
Restoran
Russian and European cuisine. Brunch a la Russe and unlimited wine Sat-Sun noon to 6.00
p.m.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon to midnight
Address: 2 Tamozhenny Alleyway |
The Hunting Lodge
Restaurant serving Russian hunting fare. Exquisite menu
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: Mon-Thur, Sun noon to midnight, Fri-Sat until 2.00 a.m.
Address: 30 Lermontovsky Pr. |
The Red Matryoshka
Russian cuisine. Live music on request.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily 11.00 a.m. until the last customer leaves
Address: 21 Rimskogo-Korsakova Pr. |
Troyka
Russian cuisine, variety show from 8.30 p.m.. Live music.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: Mon-Sat noon until the last customer leaves
Address: 27 Zagorodny Pr. |
St.Petersburg
First-class Russian and European cuisine, cabaret, live music and dancing.
Open: daily noon to 2.00 a.m.
Address: 5 Griboedov Canal Emb. |
Idiot
Cafe-bar. Russian vegetarian cuisine.Decor in the style of the early 20th century
and the 1950s.
Open: daily 11 a.m. to 11.00 p.m.
Address: 82 Moyka Emb. |
Russian Fishing (Russkaya Rybalka)
"Fisherman's hut" style summer restaurant. You can catch your own trout,
sturgeon, beluga, sterlet, and then watch while chefs cook your catch.
Open: noon to 9.00 p.m.
Address: 11 Yuzhnaya doroga, Krestovsky Island |
Ukrainian cuisine
The originality of Ukrainian national cuisine finds expression, in the
use of such ingredients as pork, salo (pork fat) and beetroot. Salo is perhaps any
Ukrainian's favourite food: it can be served as a dish on its own, in the form of
crackling (fried salo) as well as a base for many other dishes. It is even used in sweet dishes,
blended with sugar and treacle. There is only one Ukrainian restaurant in St. Petersburg -
"Shinok". You will find traditional Ukrainian dishes, without a European gloss
(as is the fashion these days) - "Katsap" salad; "Ukraine" salad;
noodles mixed with cottage cheese and sour cream; vareniki (dumplings) with cheese, potato
and mushroom, or cherry; "golubtsi" (vine leaves stuffed with rice and meat);
buckwheat kasha with crackling; fritters; Chicken Kiev; pork roll; "Poltavsky"
and "Chernigov-sky" borshch; kapustnyak; deruni. It is not possible to list them
all - we advise you to go and try for yourself.
From the above it is possible to draw the conclusion that despite the fact that the USSR
no longer exists, the wonderful cuisine of that once great power is alive and well. The
only difficulty is that nowadays you have to visit several different places to find it
all.
Shinok
A genuine Ukrainian tavern. Poltava borsch, Chernigov borsch, four varieties of
"vareniki" (dumplings), five varieties of "salo" (suet), Ukranian
vodka. Live music 7.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m., folk group performances 9.00 to 10.30 p.m.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily 24 hours
Address: 13 Zagorodny Pr. |
Caucasian cuisine
Georgian cuisine is characterised by abundant food and genuine Caucasian hospitality.
When you visit any Georgian restaurant, you will be amazed above all by the
number of different starters and the magnificent meat dishes. Today there are
four very popular restaurants in St. Petersburg specialising in Georgian cuisine.
We would like to introduce you to the two that we think you will find most pleasant
to visit. The first is called "Bagrationi". It is a cosy little restaurant,
where the chef (from Georgia) cooks all the meat dishes on a spit. There is
a wide selection of shash-liks (kebabs), whose recipe is a closely guarded secret.
You are quite likely to be confused by the variety of dishes on the menu, so
we have selected the ones we thought most worthy of interest - sturgeon in Baze
with a walnut sauce, roast suckling-pig, kuch-machi (beef pluck with onions
and spices), lobio, pkhali, the celebrated Georgian soup "kharcho",
chanakhi (lamb with vegetables), chkmeruli (chicken in garlic sauce, fried in
a clay pan), chizhi, pizhi (minced meat with spices), odzha-khuri on ketsi (home-style
brisket) and, of course, khachapuri and mchadi with cheese (a flat maize cake,
available only at "Bagrationi").
The second restaurant we suggest is the "Kavkaz-Bar". As you enter
the restaurant you find yourself in a pleasant courtyard in the Caucasus, right
in the middle of historic St. Petersburg! The menu features all the dishes that
are the pride of Georgian cuisine - khinkali, tolma (vine leaves stuffed with
meat and rice), various types of shashlik, grilled lamb, meat Adzhar-style,
Georgian kharcho (mutton soup), piti (pea soup with mutton), odzha-khuri (braised
pork with potatoes) and a great deal more.
Bagrationi
Georgian cuisine. Extensive range of Georgian wines. Live music, spit-roast in
the restaurant.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon to midnight
Address: 5/19 Liteyny Pr. |
Kavkaz
Caucasian cuisine. Traditional khash dish served on Sunday from 11.00 a.m.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon to midnight
Address: 5 Stakhanovtzev Str. |
Kavkaz Bar
Cafe and restaurant serving Caucasian food. "Caucasian courtyard" style
interior, personnel in national costumes. Live music from 8.00 p.m.
Open: daily 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 a.m.
Address: 18 Karavannaya Str. |
Kolkhida
Georgian cuisine. Live Georgian singing. Splendid interior. Cafe. Russian
billiards.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon to 1.00 a.m.
Address: 176 Nevsky Pr. |
Asian cuisine
Though the nation of Uzbekistan is relatively new, gaining independence only
after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, their culture is one of the
most ancient and refined in Central Asia. One particularly distinctive and well-developed
aspect of Uzbek culture is their cuisine.
The seasons, specifically winter and summer, greatly influence the composition
of the basic menu. In the summer, fruit, vegetables, and nuts are ubiquitous.
Grapes, melons, apricots, pears, apples, cherries, pomegranates, lemons, figs
and dates grow everywhere. Vegetables are no less plentiful. The winter diet
traditionally consists of dried fruit and vegetables and preserves.
In general, mutton is the preferred source of protein in the Uzbek diet. Beef
and horse meal are also consumed in substantial quantities.
The wide array of breads is a staple for the majority of the population. Many
doughs and batters are made with sour milk products, resulting in a unique and
delicious flavour. Plov, the Uzbek version of pilaff, is the flagship of their
cookery. It consists mainly of fried and boiled meat, onions, carrots and rice;
and raisins, barberries, chickpeas or fruit are added for variety.
Uzbek dishes are not notably hot and fiery, though certainly flavourful. Some
of their principal spices are black cumin, red and black pepper, barberries,
coriander and sesame seeds.
Tea is revered in the finest oriental traditions. It is offered first to any
guest. Green tea is the drink of hospitality and is quite predominant. Uzbek
men dressed in robes congregate around low tables that are centred on
beds adorned with ancient carpets, and here they enjoy plov, kebab and endless
cups of green tea.
Caravan
Asian cuisine, fascinating decor, separate booths, welcoming atmosphere.
Spit-roasted game, clay-oven-baked bread.
Open: daily noon to 2.00 a.m.
Address: 46 Voznesensky Pr. |
Caravan-Saray
Uzbek cuisine. Eastern-style decor. House speciality in genuine
uzbek plov. VIP room.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon until last customer leaves
Address: 1 Nekrasova Str. |
Kalif
Asian restaurant with superb decor and cuisine. Extensive menu. Folk music and
belly dancing daily.
All major credit cards accepted.
Open: daily noon to 11.00 p.m.
Address: 21 Millionnaya Str. |
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