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Chill-out
Restaurants and Cafes in St. Petersburg
The best places
to chill out and eat nice food before going out or to have a delicious
breakfast with a cup of coffee.
Imbir Restaurant.
A new restaurant, but already very popular among trendy people in
St. Petersburg. The atmosphere is quite close to
Corvousier Cafe
in Moscow: cool jazzy music, nice people, comfortable sofas, and
dimmed stylish lights. A great place to go out for a date, before
a party, or just to get an injection of good vibes.
The food is not exceptional, but quite tasty and feeding. One full
meal including drinks will cost about $15, a kettle of tea - $2.
Open: 12 to 2 daily. Credit cards: Visa Classic and MC.
Address: Zagorodny Prospekt st., #15 (metro:
Dostoevskaya, Vladimirskaya near "5 corners" place). Telephone:
(812) 113-3215. Internet: www.imbir.ru
Cafe SSSR. A
fashionable cafe with pretentious interior
exploiting the
Soviet theme. Quite
popular among tourists from Moscow, expats, and hip locals. A meals
costs about $20, a drink - $1-$2.
Located right on the central street of St. Petersburg - Nevsky Prospekt.
Opened daily 24 hours.
Address: Nevsky Prospekt, #54 (metro Nevsky
Prospekt). Telephone: (812) 310-4929. Internet: www.cccp.net.ru
Tchainy Dom (The Tea House)
A shrine of tea culture in the centre of the city. A small cosy place, with comfy
wicker sofas and chairs, oriental ambience, and superb hookah pipes. Mediate
sitting in front of a big window, sipping one their many exotic teas, some of
which they mix themselves. Food is limited to oriental delights and light snacks.
Full-on Chinese or Japanese tea ceremony available. A tea-pot for two is 110
- 600 rubles(4-22$). Open 12:00-23:00, Fridays and Saturdays until 03:00.
Address: Rubinshteina 24. Tel.: 7 (812)
571-27-84.
Location: M.: Vladimirskaya, Dostoyevskaya.
The
Stroganoff Yard Telephone-Cafe. A
cafe located in a courtyard right off the Nevsky Prospekt.
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European style
interior, transparent ceiling, warm atmosphere, and the food is
ok. However, one interesting detail: every table has a number and
a private telephone. You can phone to any table and have a little
conversation.
People are mostly day-time shoppers and tourists.
A meal costs about $15-$20, a drink - $2. Credit cards accepted
(AmEx, Visa, MC).
Opened: 9 to 0.
Address: Nevsky Prospekt, #17 (metro Nevsky
Prospekt). Telephone: (812) 315-2315. Internet: www.concordcatering.com
Idealnaya
Chashka (Ideal Cup) Coffeehouse.
The first
coffee chain in St. Petersburg. There are more than 30 coffee
blends, some
really unique, like garlic coffee, maroccan coffee etc. The interior
is cozy and inviting, the guys-Baristas look professional
and polite, but don't speak english. Favourite among locals and
tourists.
The prices are at least twice less than in Moscow:
a small cup of coffee or hot chocolate will cost around $1.2, desserts
and pastry around $1.5. The hot chocolate
and maroccan coffee are very well prepared, coffee with orange sounds
nice, but turns out to be nothing special.
Attention, WayToRussia.Net
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advice: one
more good thing about the "Chashka" coffeshops is that
there's a free phone and a desk for messages at every cafe. It means
that you can make your phonecalls throughout the city for free from
there, or arrange that somebody phones you at the specific time.
Besides, you can leave a message for someone on the message desk.
Because of this, and convenient locations, the "Chashka"
cafes are ideal places to arrange a meeting with friends, especially
when you travel.
Address: 1. Nevski Prospekt street, #15. Location:
between Dvortsovaya ploshad - where the Hermitage is - and Kazanski
cathedral, metro Nevski Prospekt, the side of Kazanski cathedral
Map:
C3 (triangle #1). Phone: (812) 315-0927. Open:
7.00-5.00 | 2. Nevski prospekt street, #112. Location:
near Moskovski railway station, on the opposite side of Nevski.
Phone: (812) 275-7140. | 3. Nevski prospekt street,
#130, close to St Petersburg Int'l Hostel and Oktyabrskaya hotel.
Phone: (812) 277-0730. | 4. Vladimirski proezd, #1.
Location: where the Liteiny prospekt meets Nevski prospekt,
on the corner, close to Puppet Theater Hostel. Phone: (812)
310-3735. | 5. Kirochnaya Ul., #19. Location: next
to Chernyshevskaya metro, close to Puppet Theater Hostel and International
Hostel Holiday. Phone: (812) 275-5835. | 6. Vasilievski Island,
Sredni Prospekt, #46, next to Vasileostrovskaya metro. Phone:
(812) 323-9059. | 7. Aleksandrovsky garden, #4 - temporarily
closed, metro Gorkovskaya, near Alexanrovki garden, at the theatre
"Baltiski Dom", near Music Hall).Map:
B2 (triangle #10) Internet: http://www.chashka.ru/
Onegin. (PWT)
Primarily a restaurant with kitschy, in-your-face interiors and
furniture, waitresses being models all dressed in black,
Russian and European menus, wide selection of drinks, cigars
etc. Resident DJs play house and lounge. Frequent concerts
of Russian and international pop and rock stars like Mummyi
Troll, Marc Almond and likes. Face control, free entrance.
If you look fine but administrator doesn’t want to
let you in – it’s just a private party inside,
nothing to worry about.
Monday – Thursday, Sunday:
5 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday & Saturday: 5 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Address: # 12 Sadovaya Ul. Location: M: Gostinny Dvor. Tel.:
(812) 117-8384.
Prival.com (PWT).
In the 1920’s this place was known
as “Prijut Comediantov” (The Shelter for Comedians),
the favorite hangout for poets, writers, artists and actors,
who were spending sleepless nights there, Mayakovsky, Akhmatova
and Blok being regular visitors. It would be really stupid
to open a club in exactly the same basement and not mention
the historical value of its predecessor. Now the full name
sounds like “Prival comediantov” which still
emphasizes connection with the past. Good restaurant and
a coffee shop during the day and little cozy nightclub after
7 p.m. Interiors tend to copy original turn of the 20th century
design, also notice the old photographs. Monday – Thursday,
Sunday: Noon to midnight. Friday & Saturday: Noon to
3 a.m. Entrance 50 to 400 rub.
Address: # 1/8 Moika Emb. Location: M: Gostinny Dvor / Nevsky
Prospect. Tel.: (812) 314-3849.
Nero
A cosy two-storied cafe, taking up a corner of the street. One
wall is entirely glass with a great view, especially on the upper
floor. Wicker furniture and jazz/blues lounge music, fine handmade
lighting dimmed for comfort. Calm and peaceful atmosphere suits
great for a slow chit-chat while having a cup of somthing warm.
Nice choice of coffee-based cocktails pricing at 100-200RUR(3-6$),
and a choice of sweets of their own production at the first-floor
shop.
Situated 200m from Moskovsky Train Station, so a good option
if you're catching a train to/from Moscow or Novgorod.
Address: angle of Ligovskiy pr. And Zhukovskogo str., on the
contrary Oktyabrsky Concert Hall.
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