Walks With Folks
Walks With Folks
Walks With Folks
Walks With Folks

Taste of St.Petersburg: Food and Walking Tour of the city

Duration: 3 hours
During any journey food is a significant part of your cultural experience. Once you are in Russia and want to taste local dishes, do it together with your tour guide who knows the best places to try the local and original foods. Visit four of the most famous eateries and one local market in central residential area of Saint-Petersburg. Find out which traditional pancake filling you like the most, drink a cup of Russian tea with the most famous Soviet dessert, try real homemade pie and learn about local food and lifestyle!
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Tour highlights
Kuznechny Market
Start your tour at the Kuznechny market where city dwellers have bought seasonal food for the last 100 years. Look what type of food locals eat every day and how much it costs – your guide will help you bargain for the best deal!

Check out the local Russian specialties such as caviar, honey, wild berries, various dairy products and different zakuski (appetizers) such as cold cuts of meat, cured fish, selection of cheeses and much more.
Palace Square
Blinnaya
Russian cuisine is often associated with blini - a kind of pancakes or crepes. Visit a famous pancake place (blinnaya) with more than 20 different types of blini and choose the filling you like.

From mushrooms with sour cream and red caviar to smoked salmon and berries, you will surely find something to surprise your taste buds. At the same place you can also try borsh – an iconic beat soup that Russians seem to always cook and miss immensely when living abroad.
Cruiser Aurora
Pirogi
Pirogi or Russian pie is one of the most traditional and well known Russian dishes. Easy to cut, easy to share, at a special pirogi restaurant you can try a few types of pies with classic or unconventional fillings.

Russian babushka's (grandmothers) prefer eggs and green onion pies, whereas teenagers are more fond of pies filled with chicken, cheese or red currant. Take your time in choosing your pie – there are many options!
Mathilde Kschessinskaya Mansion
Sever Cafe
Would you like to have a cup of coffee with original Russian and soviet-style sweets? Then welcome to "Sever Cafe," historical pastry-shop opened back in 1847.

Learn what kind of desserts were popular in Imperial Russia and during the Soviet times and why Russians prefer tea more than coffee. Make sure to try the café's specialty - soft almond cookies.
Museum of Russian Political History
Bushe Cafe
To make your experience complete, check out the fancy coffee shop - Bushe, and see how the most successful cafe-chain in Saint-Petersburg looks like. Enjoy the atmosphere and learn new trends of the gastronomic local life.

In such a laid-back environment it is a good time to ask your guide what you always wanted to know about Russia. At the end of the tour your guide will provide a list of Saint-Petersburg best restaurants so you can continue exploring the gourmet foods of the city.
Museum of Russian Political History Exhibit
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