Russia Food

Russia Food often consists of saline and pickled products. Russia's popular caviar is easily available in any of the city restaurants; however prices are too high. Dishes such as beef Stroganov and chicken kiev are also very popular in Russia. Russian meat soups and meat pies are excellent. Besides the traditional food, other cuisines are also widely available. Some of the famous food in Russia includes:

• Blini (crêpes)
• Golubsti (Cabbage rolls)
• Black bread
• Pelmeni (meat-filled dumplings)
• Olivier (potato salad)
• Borsch (red soup/beetroot soup)
• Piroshki (Meat or cabbage pie)
• Vareniki (Ukrainian dumplings)
• Vinegret (beet and boiled vegetable salad)
• Ikra Baklazhanaya (aubergine caviar)
• Shi (cabbage soup)

The cities of Saint Petersburg and Moscow offer excellent, world class dining and a wide variety of cuisines including Tibetan, Japanese and Italian. Cities like Georgian and Uzbek purvey delicious cuisines of the former Soviet Union that you not find anywhere else in the country.

The menus that you find in restaurants may not be in English, but you may always ask for assistance from the waiters at your service. Keep a small Russian dictionary handy that will be useful at non- touristy restaurants offering table service where staff members do not speak English and the food menus will be completely in Cyrillic, but charges are very reasonable.

From restaurants to cafes, from roadside kiosks to a chic alfresco… place to eat is plenty in Russia. Many trendy cafes serving cappuccino, espresso, toasted sandwiches, rich cakes and pastries are coming up all over the cities Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

Russians have their own versions of fast food restaurants which range from cafeteria style serving comfort foods to streetside kiosks cooking up blinis or stuffed potatos. Although their menus may not be in English, it is fairly easy to point to what is wanted - or at a picture of it, not unlike at western fast food restaurants. A small Russian dictionary will be useful at non- touristy restaurants offering table service where staff members will not speak English and the menus will be entirely in Cyrillic, but prices very reasonable. Russian meat soups and meat pies are excellent.