St Petersburg Travel Guide

Eating Out

Some of the city’s best mid-range restaurants are Georgian, a popular style of cuisine throughout Russia. For perhaps the best example, try out Kafe Ket on Stremyannaya where tourists can also find an English menu. Other mid-range options include the usual Italian pizzerias and pasta joints along with a sprinkling of French places, the usual glut of American fast food burger joints, and a selection of just about any other type of cuisine out there.

Many of St Petersburg’s top-end places can be found at the four- and five-star hotels such as the Grand Hotel Europe, which offers a Sunday Jazz Brunch featuring caviar, Russian champagne, sushi, a host of fresh cut meats and just about anything else you might care to consume in the middle of Sunday, all for around US$100 a head. The smooth jazz here is the icing on the cake.

Russian fast food joints in the city serve borsch, or beetroot soup, meaty stews and slabs of bread. Fans of the very tasty Russian pancakes, known as blini, are in for a treat as there are plenty of places serving them hot topped with sweet and savoury treats like mushrooms or berries for just a few rubles. The best blinis in St Petersburg come courtesy of Teremok, with outlets across the city.