Saint Petersburg Restaurant Tips by sennaya

Restaurant Name: Seven Sky Bar (Restaurant)

In our search for the best view restaurants in St Petersburg the Seven Sky Bar Restaurant deserves notice. It is on top of the Grand Palace shopping Center and looks across the Russian Museum to the Church on the Spilled Blood. Only the Renaissance Terrace Bar competes with it in our search.

It has two view levels in front of a slanted wall of windows and a stair to the roof patio in summer with unsurpassed views.

During the week they have a business lunch special, 20% off the menu price between 1-5 pm.

The food is gourmet, really tasty and staff are usually friendly.
No reservations unless for groups. Closed on New Years eve in 2007- 8.

Favorite Dish: Coffee and dessert are very good and you can enjoy the view. Desserts 200 rubles.

The Osaka Pizza, beef, tuna, chinese cabbage and other gourmet ingredients is surprisingly good. 290 rubles, medium size, 8 small pieces. And a glass of champagne is 190 rubles.

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Theme: Eclectic/International
Comparison: more expensive than average
Prices: US$21-30  » Currency Converter
Phone: 8(812)449-94-32
Address: 44 Italianskaya Street
Directions: Enter from Nevsky prospect. It is near Metro Nevsky/Gostinniy Dvor
Or from Italianskaya St. 15
Website: http://www.sevenskybar.ru/ru/index.php?ln=en&pg=0
Other Contact: email:info@7skybar.ru

Restaurant Name: Renaissance Terrace Bar

The Terrace Bar of the Renaissance Hotel has the one of the best views in St. Petersburg and food and service to match.

We went at 6 pm and it was uncrowded and very pleasant. The Petunias smelled nice and the close view of St. Isaac's was superb.
You can watch all the people who paid 200 rubles to climb the collonade for a view. But you get a great view for free and can spend your rubles on dessert or drinks!!!

Favorite Dish: The tiramisu was fantastic, best we have seen. It has local berries adorning it and tastes great. See picture!

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Theme: Dessert
Comparison: more expensive than average
Prices: US$11-20  » Currency Converter
Phone: 7 812 380 40 00
Address: Pochtamtskaya Str. 4
Directions: Behind the Alexander Monument in front of St. Isaac Cathedral-- look up!
Website: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/hotel-information/travel/ledbr-renaissance-st-petersburg-baltic-hotel/

Restaurant Name: Kashmir Cafe

One of the best moderate priced places to go for a tasty dish.
Nice decor, good service and gourmet without being overly spicy.

Favorite Dish: Business lunch 120 rubles or 160 rubles for with soy meat, plus coffee
Very tasty 4 dish lunch

Try the Kashmir coffee, it is a small cup with many kinds of spices including anise, cardamon, and small cloves, very tasty to sip!

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Theme: Indian
Comparison: about average
Prices: US$11-20  » Currency Converter
Phone: 812-575-6369
Address: Bolshoi Moskovskaya 7
Directions: 200 meters from Metro Vladimir

Restaurant Name: Panorama Restaurant Hotel Moscow

The best part of the the new 2007 Panorama restaurant is its view. The Moscow Hotel remodeled and added an eighth floor restaurant. Only one elevatror, the one on the right, can go to the 8th floor. In a city dominated by 18th century 4-5 story buildings, it is a pretty good view.

The restaurant is a narrow strip along the front of the building facing the Neva river and streets. Prettiest at night.

Favorite Dish: Salads for 200 rubles, main dishes 3-400 rubles. You pay for the view.

It is open 24 hours, which fits those with jet lag very well.

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Theme: Local
Comparison: more expensive than average
Prices: US$21-30  » Currency Converter
Phone: +7(812) 274-0022
Address: 2, Alexander Nevsky Sq.
Directions: exit Metro Alexander Nevsky, turn left.
Website: http://www.hotel-moscow.ru/english/home.htm
Other Contact: servis@hotel-moscow.ru

Restaurant Name: Teremok

This is the best of the fast food chains in St. Petersburg.
They have fresh, tasty blini (thin pancake).
For 75 rubles you get a hearty blini with smoked chicken and tasty sauce.
You can eat for less than 100 rubles ($4)

Unlike the popular Teaspoon restaurants or BlinDonalts, they know how to cook the blini fresh.

Favorite Dish: Blini! Blini are a little bit sweet, tasty with chicken, mushrooms or for dessert with jam or apples.

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Theme: Local
Comparison: less expensive than average
Prices: less than US$10  » Currency Converter
Phone: 7-812-293-84-80
Address: All over the city- Nevsky by Gostiniy, Sennaya Pl
Directions: If you don't see one and need to know where to go:
http://teremok.ru/places.phtml?city=2
Website: http://teremok.ru/
Other Contact: spb@teremok.ru

Restaurant Name: Dali Cafe

Cool new cafe and coffeshop with art and music. Food are tasty and unique.
Watch for it in event listings.

Favorite Dish: Salads are great!
Coffee and cake also not bad...

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Theme: Local
Comparison: about average
Prices: US$11-20  » Currency Converter
Phone: (812) 572 6203
Address: 11 Spassky street
Directions: Off Sennaya Square 1/2 block down Spassky Street, (directly across from Sennaya Metro)
Website: http://www.dalicafe.spb.ru

Restaurant Name: Russian Fishing Restaurant -- Russkaya Rybalka

A famous restaurant located on Krestovsky Ostrov where you can catch your own dinner.
Sterlet, Eel, Crawfish and several others are available in the ponds adjacent to teh restaurant.

You buy your fish by it's weight. Price is 500 -1500 rubles per kilogram, it can be expensive, especially if the fish is big. A 1.5 kilo Sterlet is $2500 rubles, almost $100. But is is a rare and fresh fish.

The menu does not give the size of the portions as most Russian restaurants do, and accordingly, the portions are very small. The vegetable stew with mushrooms, about 4 tablespoons. The Tuna Avocado salad about 6 tablespoons.

Very pretty location and frequented by VIP guests.

You can walk by for free and there is a petting zoo for children nearby.
The fishing supervisor is nice and patient and may gie a nice tour of teh ponds and fish if you ask.

Private VIP wood huts are available for $70 hour . Regular chairs are fee, but dinner is pricey.

Favorite Dish: Catch your own trout, sturgeon, and beluga sterlet- and you get to pay for it too ...
Baked eggplant for vegetarian diners.

There are ducks also in the ponds, but have not heard of anyone convincing the chef to cook one yet :)

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Theme: Local
Comparison: more expensive than average
Prices: US$21-30  » Currency Converter
Phone: 812-323–9813
Address: Krestovsky Island, S. Road, 11 Yuzhnaya Doroga
Directions: Metro Kretovsky Ostrov, to the west end on South road
20 minutes walk or catch a taxi. The restaurant can help call a taxi if you need one to go home.
Website: http://www.russian-fishing.ru/

Restaurant Name: Russian Village Shuvalovka

Beautiful large log house set in a newly built village of Russian Culture.

In addition to eatingin teh huge log lodge you can visit other log buildins with traditional crafts, blacksmithing, and so on.

Favorite Dish: You can eat many old time dishes such as salo (pork fat) or bear meat :)

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Theme: Local
Comparison: more expensive than average
Prices: US$11-20  » Currency Converter
Directions: On the way to Peterhof, about 30 minutes from the center.
Website: http://www.goingrussia.com/incentives/wedding-in-shuvalovka

Restaurant Name: The Idiot Cafe Bar

It is a calm place close to the St. Isaac Cathedral embodying a fantastic charm of Petersburg.
Popular basement coffe house and vegetarian dishes.
Seating casual on old couches.
It is a favorite end point for Peter's walks, the english language walking tours.
Foreigner friendly place.

Favorite Dish: Coffee or specialty tea is very nice after a winter walk.
The menu has beed created with a zest.

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Theme: Vegan/Vegetarian
Comparison: less expensive than average
Prices: US$21-30  » Currency Converter
Phone: (812) 315-1675
Address: 82 Moika Embankment
Directions: Moika west of Nevsky Prospect near St. Isaac Cathedral
metro Sennaya/Sadovaya
Website: http://en.restoran.ru/spb/detailed/restaurants/idiot#
Other Contact: idiot4@rambler.ru

Restaurant Name: Russian and European Cuisine

The menu includes Russian and European cuisine.
invites for Buffet - Breakfast.

The Fyodor Dostoevsky Restaurant offers dishes of exquisite Russian cuisine with a French twist.
It has a cozy dining area has blue and white décor features live music after 9 PM
The restaurant is proud to present the visitors the rich collection of objects related to life and work of Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well as to his epoch. Great 19th-century paraphernalia: books, old drawings, and household items.
A visit to Fyodor Dostoevsky is your chance to explore the true Russia, the way it was and, hopefully, will be again some day.

Open from 7 a.m. till 11 p.m.

Golden Garden Boutique Hotel, St Petersburg, Russian Federation

Favorite Dish: Fedor Dostoevsky Restaurant presents the forgotten cuisine of old Russia. This is what Russian restaurants served many years ego, and certainly during the era of Dostoevsky.
For the fish lovers, any fish dishe can be very good.

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Theme: Local
Comparison: most expensive
Prices: US$31-40  » Currency Converter
Phone: +7(812) 572-2244
Address: 9, Vladimirsky 9, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Directions: situated in the centre of St Petersburg, 200 metres from the 18th century Church of Vladimir. 50m from Dostoevskaya metro torwards Nevsky prospekt,
metro Dostoevskaya or Vladimirskaya,
Website: http://www.goldengarden.ru/en/rest.phtml