Dining out

St. Petersburg is a large city so there are a lot of restaurants offering different cuisine. In case you do not know what restaurant to go Anastasia web tour assistants who work in the Hospitality room will help you to make the right choice.

1. American Cuisine
2. Italian cuisine
3. French cuisine
4. Russian/ Ukrainian cuisine
5. Coffee Houses
6. Japanese cuisine
7. Chinese cuisine
8. Fast food

1. American Cuisine.

CALIFORNIA GRILL

Serves a menu of American, Mexican and European cuisine, business lunches. Features: Open 24 hours, live music every evening, Rock ‘n’ roll nights on Friday and Saturday.

Address: Nevsky Prospekt 176
Metro: Ploschad Aleksandra Nevskovo
Open 24 hours
Telephone: 274-24-22
Credit cards: VISA, Eurocard/Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club, JCB, Electron, Union Card.

Zvezda Sherifa (Star of the Sheriff)

Features a wide selection of hearty and tasty Mexican and European cuisine, including an extensive menu of more exotic Mexican dishes.

Address: 4 Sredneokhtinsky Prospect

Metro: Novocherkasskaya

Open 12 p.m. to 12 a.m

Telephone: +7 (812) 222-3349

2. Italian cuisine.

LA STRADA PIZZA

A lot of Anastasia web romance tour clients prefer Italian cuisine. La Strada Pizza serves a varied menu of traditional ethnic dishes including a special selection of exotic meat dishes, baked potatoes and cheeses in an atmosphere styled on a small Italian village.

Address: 27 Bolshaya Konyushennaya Ulitsa (Nearest metro: Nevsky Prospect)
Telephone: +7 (812) 312-4700

PIZZICATO

Features tasty Italian and international cuisine including a special pizza menu in a comfortable setting near St. Isaac’s Ploshchad. Pizzas are cooked in a wood-burning stove

Address: 45 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa ( Nearest metro: Sadovaya)

Telephone: +7 (812) 315-0319

MAMA ROMA

Serves a rich menu of tasty Italian dishes including ten types of pizza and pasta, salads and a buffet with a selection of hot dishes. Offers a breakfast menu from 9 a.m. to noon and a reasonably priced business lunch.

Address: 3 Karavannaya Ulitsa ( Nearest metro: Gostiny Dvor)

Telephone: +7 (812) 314-0347

PATIO-PIZZA

Offers a menu of Italian and international cuisine, including piping hot and tasty pizza cooked in an open oven in full view of the customers. Also features business lunch and special children’s matinees weekends.

Address: 30 Nevsky Prospect ( Nearest metro: Nevsky Prospect)
Telephone: +7 (812) 314-8215

3. French cuisine.

BISTRO GARCON

Serves menu of French cuisine, and has Bordeaux wines. In Bistro - Garson try to keep an atmosphere of an old kind French bistro. The bar rack (the end of XIX century) have brought directly from France .

Address: 95 Nevsky Prospect ( Nearest metro: Ploschad Vosstaniya)
Telephone: +7 (812) 277-2467

DEJA-VU

Serves a varied selection of classical Russian and French cuisine in a cabaret club style setting which has four rooms which include bar a various theme rooms. Sporting events broadcast on 3-metre screen.

Address: 30 Nabereznaya Reki Fontanki ( Nearest metro: Nevsky Prospect)
Telephone: +7 (812) 273-4304

Le Francais

Enjoy a menu of French cuisine prepared by a native French chef in a pleasant atmosphere. Prize in competition "The Best restaurant of St. Petersburg ". Features: Live piano music, wide choice of French wines.

Address: 20 Galernaya Ulitsa ( Nearest metro: Nevsky Prospect)
Telephone: +7 (812) 315-2465

Le Paris

This is the only gourmet French restaurant in St. Petersburg . Features: Three rooms (dining,VIP and wine & cheese tasting rooms), wide selection of French wines and cognacs, cigars.

Address: 63 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa ( Nearest metro: Nevsky Prospect)
Telephone: +7 (812) 311-9545

4. Russian/ Ukrainian cuisine.

Sverchok Restaurant

Amazing as it may seem, you can walk up the modern and stylish city's main thoroughfare Nevsky Prospekt to where it intersects with the scenic and historic Moika Canal and find yourself in a genuine Russian style Izba or peasant's hut. This hut, better known as the Sverchok restaurant, provides a warm and authentic atmosphere and prepares and presents hearty and tasty Russian fare according to old Russian traditions. You'll even find your rich menu wrapped in natural birch bark!

House specialties include veal in a special sauce, potatoes, five types of kebabs, and scallops. Enjoy a rich assortment of wines with your meal, which includes an extended list of wines from France , Italy , Georgia , Bulgaria , Spain , and Chili. Sverchok's chef not only skillfully prepares Russian cuisine, but also European cuisine and tasty Georgian shashlik or kebabs.

Address: 20 Nevsky Prospekt
Metro: Nevsky Prospekt
Telephone: +7 812 312-9160, +7 812 312-8919
Open: 12 p.m. till to the last Guest leaves it.

At Gorchakov's Restaurant

Features sophisticated Ukrainian and Russian cuisine in the festive atmosphere of a theater. Dishes are prepared according to traditional recipes, and including traditional favorites of strips of dried venison and roast veal with cherries. The restaurant also offers an extensive wine list, including "Vedovukha" and "Sbiten" honey drinks, " Mors " natural fruit drink and kvas. Live piano music from days gone by is also featured.

Address: 19 Bolshaya Monetnaya Ulitsa
Metro: Petrogradskaya
Telephone: +7 (812) 233-9372
Open: 12 p.m. to 12 a.m.

Davidov

Offers a wide selection of hearty and traditional Russian cuisine including caviar, vodkas and desserts. Live Gypsy music from 19.30. "Russian table" is available on Friday from 18:00 - 23:00 , on the weekend and holidays from 12:00 - 22:00 . Lunch is $28.00 per person, dinner is $35 per person taxes inclusive.

Address: Astoria Hotel 39 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa
Metro: Nevsky Prospect, Sadovaya
Telephone: +7 (812) 313-5815
Open: 12 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Kalinka-Malinka Restaurant

Everything at Kalinka-Malinka, which is named after possibly Russia 's best-known folk song, is in the best Russian traditions: good, filling food to old recipes; decor in the style of a wooden country cottage; and live folk music every evening.

The menu includes all the old favorites: bliny (pancakes) with different fillings; traditional soups, such as shchi (cabbage), borshch (beetroot) and solyanka (meat); baked rabbit; salmon with nuts; leg of pork in beer; and much, much more. Kalinka-Malinka also offers home-style vodka of the same name, as well as an enormous dessert of fruits and berries in whipped cream.

The two small rooms are decorated with wooden carvings, and bear and wolf skins hang on the walls. Traditional Russian souvenirs are also on sale.

Address: 5 Italyanskaya Ulitsa (Ploshchad Iskusstv)
Telephone: +7 812 314-2681
Open: 12 a.m. to 11 p.m.

St. Petersburg Corner Restaurant

Cosy restaurant, with unusual decor. Russian cuisine using old St. Petersburg recipes. Live music in the evenings .

Address: 79 Nevsky Prospect (Ploschad Vosstaniya)
Telephone: +7 (812) 311-8589

Metro: Ploschad Vosstaniya

5. Coffee Houses.

Albina Cafe

Operates as a coffee shop and confectionery, and includes a wide selection of the best brands of coffee from all over the world.

Address: 10 Vosstaniya Ulitsa
Telephone: +7 (812) 273-7459
Open: 8.30 a.m. to 11.30 p.m.

Ontrome Cafe

This authentic French confectioner serves a fine selection of cakes and pastries in a traditional shop and cafe style setting located just a short distance from Nevsky Prospekt.

Addresses:

36 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa, +7 (812) 315-5030, +7 (812) 315-5019 ( Nearest metro: Nevsky Prospect)

58 Nabereznaya Kanala Griboedova, +7 (812) 310-7339 ( Nearest metro: Sadovaya, Sennaya Ploschad)

Rico Cafe

Offers a wide selection of coffees, cocktails and a confectioner’s shop, which offers a rich assortment of cakes and other fresh baked goods in a Mexican style atmosphere.

Address: 1 Pushkinskaya Ulitsa
Telephone: +7 (812) 164-7214

6. Japanese cuisine.

Sakura Restaurant

Located just a stone's throw from Nevsky, Sakura is a genuine oasis of Japan in the heart of St. Petersburg . Unhurried Oriental relaxation is the order of the day, with traditional Japanese food and interiors being complemented by pleasant music and a soothing atmosphere.

In addition to two private rooms, the restaurant's first floor includes a sushi bar, where guests can watch both sushi and sashimi being prepared. Sakura's second floor is divided into two rooms. The first is decorated, according to Japanese tradition, using wood and silk. The second, 'glass' room is done up in a more contemporary, 'hi-tech' style. As well as little tables, both rooms are home to miniature pagodas for eight to ten people, where guests can hold a family celebration or just while away the time of day pleasantly with food and good company.

The restaurant's menu includes more than a hundred traditional Japanese dishes, and was created by a head chef from Japan . Classical entrees such as tempura, teriyaki, teppanyaki and sukiyaki come in different varieties prepared with poultry, fish, meat or seafood, while a European wine list sits comfortably alongside Japanese drinks including whiskey, sake, liqueurs and beer.

Address: 12 Nabereznaya Kanala Griboedova
Metro: Kanal Griboedova
Telephone: +7 812 315-9474
Open: 12 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Fujiyama Sushi-Bar

Anastasia web assures you that a lot of Russian women like sushi. Fujiyama features a good selection of tasty and reasonably priced Japanese cuisine, prepared by a Japanese chef and including sukiyaki, sushi, sashimi, yusanabi and kushiyaki. Offers fine selection of Japanese alcohol. Nowadays different kinds of sushi are very popular with Russian women. So, if you invite a girl from Anastasia web site to try sushi you will hit the mark.

Address: 2 Razezjaya Ulitsa
Metro: Dostoyevskaya, Vladimirskaya
Telephone: +7 (812) 327-5285

Planet Sushi - Sushi Bar

Serves a menu of tasty authentic Japanese cuisine including sushi, sashimi, nabe, teppan-yaki and many other popular dishes Japanese dishes.

Address: 94 Nevsky Prospect
Metro: Mayakovskaya
Telephone: +7 (812) 273-3558
Open: 12 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Yakitoriya Sushi-Bar

The bar serves a wide selection of Japanese cuisine including many kinds of sushi and sashimi and more than 20 varieties of kebabs in a fine setting with panoramic views of the Alexandrinsky Theater and the Catherine Garden.

Address: 5/7 Ostrovskogo Ploschad
Metro: Gostiny Dvor, Nevsky Prospect
Telephone: +7 (812) 315-8343

Taj Mahal Blues Restaurant-Cum-Club

The menu at Taj Mahal Blues combines elements from several different world cuisines, including Japanese sushi, delicious Armenian kebabs, and eastern sweetmeats. The house dish Shakh-plov, consisting of rice with meat, dried apricots, chestnuts and saffron, all wrapped up in Armenian bread, is something to be enjoyed with friends.

The drinks menu is similarly eclectic. As well as a European wine list, there is also Georgian Cha-Cha vodka - a choice for the brave at 70 percent alcohol - plus Japanese rice vodka, Chinese plum wine, absinthe and grappa.

The interior of Taj Mahal Blues also combines different elements, from the bar balancing on the backs of stone elephants and scenes from the Karma Sutra to elements of contemporary design.

Also available are chess and backgammon, a dance floor to dance the sounds of the live jazz and blues bands or DJs, a banqueting hall, and the smoking room, replete with plush sofas.

Address: 46 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa
Telephone: +7 812 314-7007
Open: 12 a.m. to last visitor

7. Chinese cuisine.

Peking Opera Restaurant

Refined and varied cuisine has made China the gastronomic center of the Orient. The Peking Opera's Head Chef can skillfully prepare various dishes and recreate the amazing and harmonious combination of the traditional cuisine of Old China including both Southern and Northern schools. House specialties include frog legs, Emperor's chicken, Peking Opera salad, and Sweet & Sour Pork. Guests may also enjoy wine from France , China , Georgia , and Spain or a variety of liquor from Mexican Tequilla to Scottish whiskey.

The Peking Opera offers guests a spectacular Chinese-style interior, which includes white halls decorated in minimalist style with the enchanting melody of the Peking Opera and attributes of the Chinese theater including authentic Chinese musical instruments. The restaurant has three halls including one hall suited for small business meetings and negotiations. Furthermore, the Peking Opera has views of the picturesque Kryukov Canal and the Mariinsky Theater.

including authentic Chinese musical instruments. The restaurant has three halls including one hall suited for small business meetings and negotiations. Furthermore, the Peking Opera has views of the picturesque Kryukov Canal and the Mariinsky Theater.

Address: 27 Ulitsa Dekabristov
Metro: Sennaya Ploshchad/Sadovaya
Telephone: +7 812 314-1173
Open: 12 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Gonkong ( Hong Kong ) Restaurant

Gonkong is located on Sennaya Ploshchad, a traditional multi-national trading center where elite boutiques sit comfortably alongside shops stocking more affordable brands. Walk past the two white stone lions guarding the entrance to the restaurant, and you find yourself in a Chinese Modern interior characteristic of contemporary Hong Kong . All of the restaurant's chefs have been brought in from southern China , where the cuisine has its own distinctive features. Many dishes, for example, have an inimitable sweet-and-sour tang to them.

Guests have a good choice of places to sit, from the fountain room to the Buddha hall to the bar to one of the three small VIP rooms with round tables and able to seat twelve.

The menu includes some masterpieces of Chinese cuisine, including jellyfish roulette with Chinese cabbage, fried chrysanthemums with shrimps, turtle soup with dates, or 'Belochka' (fried cod in a sweet-and-sour sauce). Those with a hankering for the exotic can try one dish that is definitely not for the faint of heart: a live snake is dissected and prepared in front of the guests - and the brave person who ordered it is presented with the snake's heart.

Gonkong also offers a veritable multitude of different sorts of tea, and the desserts to accompany them include fruits in caramel or honey. Tea can also be drunk before the meal, according to the Chinese custom. As well as the usual European wines, Gonkong also has a Chinese wine list, including semi-sweet plum, flower and fruit wines, rice wine and medicinal Chinese vodka, which is reputed to be good for the circulation and eagle-eyed vision.

Address: 42 Sadovaya Ulitsa.
Telephone: +7 812 310-1311
Open: 12 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Vostochny Paris (Oriental Paris ) Restaurant

Paris of the East is a restaurant with a special twist, the twist being its unexpected combination of Russian and Chinese cuisine and interiors. Many Russian emigres ended up in China after fleeing the Revolution of 1917, and the restaurant copies down the atmosphere of an early 20th-century Shanghai nightclub, where these White exiles liked to hang out.

Alongside Russian staples such as smoked sturgeon, and marinated and salted mushrooms with red caviar, the restaurant offers its own inventions, for example a salad called White Guardsman's Whim and the Emperor's sturgeon-and-salmon kebab. The Chinese dishes, meanwhile, come under the heading of "Favorites of the White Guard", and include deftly prepared fish, shrimp, squid and even frogs' legs; all are delicious. To round off the meal there are melt-in-the-mouth fruit desserts, home-made cakes, or ingenious stuffed pancakes.

Address: 12 Ulitsa Sadovaya
Telephone: +7 812 314-8373, +7 812 314-3174
Open: 12 p.m. till last client leaves

8. Fast food.

This is the list of fast food restaurants that Anastasia web recommends its customers

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) on Nevsky prospect

Offers an assortment of hot fast food dishes specializing in a wide variety of hot and original chicken dishes served in a warm and friendly fast food atmosphere.

Address: Nevsky Prospect, 96

Metro: Mayakovskaya
Open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Telephone: +7 (812) 279-6136

McDonalds

Offers its popular menu of traditional fast food dishes, drinks and desserts in a warm and friendly atmosphere, which also offers breakfast daily, and hosts children’s birthday parties.

Addresses:

11/6 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa, +7 (812) 314-6858 ( Nearest metro: Nevsky Prospect)

195a Moskovsky Prospect, +7 812 448-9603 ( Nearest metro: Moskovskaya)

39 Kamennoostrovsky Prospect, +7 (812) 234-9263 ( Nearest metro: Petrogradskaya)

4/1 Sennaya Ploschad, +7 (812) 113-47-32 ( Nearest metro: Sennaya Ploschad, Sadovaya)

45a Zagorodny Prospect, +7 (812) 310-5214 ( Nearest metro: Pushkinskaya)

Pizza Hut

Offers a menu of traditional European and Italian cuisine including its popular pizza menu and hot and cold snacks in a warm and friendly atmosphere. Hours: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Addresses:

71/16 Nabereznaya Reki Moiki +7 (812) 315-7705 ( Nearest metro: Nevsky Prospect)

96 Nevsky Prospect +7 (812) 327-2642 ( Nearest metro: Mayakovskaya)

Zolotaya Lozhka Bistro (The Golden Spoon)

Features a rich assortment of traditional Russian hot snacks and appetizers including “pirogi” (pies) and “blini” (pancakes), a good selection of desserts, tea and coffee in a Russian styled snack bar

Address: 3 Perecupnoy Pereulok ( Nearest metro: Ploschad Vosstaniya)
Telephone: +7 (812) 277-79-61

Laima Bistro

Laima is a popular chain of bistros offering a selection of hearty and tasty Russian and European fare including a rich assortment of desserts at reasonable prices.

Address: 88 Bolshoy Prospect, Petrograd Side ( Nearest metro: Petrogradskaya)
Telephone:+7 (812) 232-6780