Best Places to Eat in Yekaterinburg

Located in the city’s historic centre, Belmesi will steal your heart with its pleasantly laid back atmosphere and delicious home-style meals. One of the best places in the city to eat Uzbek food, Belmesi is an amazing combination of atmospheric design, high quality food and great service.

With its menu designed by Russia’s most celebrated chef Anatoly Komm, Restaurant № 1 is the place you should go for excellent molecular gastronomy. The elegantly decorated restaurant lives up to its ambitious name and offers dishes that belong in a sci-fi movie: cod liver ice-cream with egg and asparagus, borsch in a ball of sour cream and herring salad rolls will make you question everything you thought you knew about food.

The city’s most talked-about gastropub with the poshest menu you can imagine: ribs with tomato jam, black beef with onion ash, and lamb soup with white wine, estragon and tkemali sauce. Also here you can get the best humus in the city and stuff your own cream puff with the filling of your choice.

Another Uzbek restaurant on the list, Nigora is a perfect place for a hearty meal or a hangover breakfast. Completely unpretentious in both interior design and menu, Nigora offers simple but deliciously cooked traditional meals like lagman soup, dolma, and pilaf. Nigora doesn’t serve coffee, but you can always have a cup of tea with baklava of fig jam.

Maccheroni comprises two beautifully designed floors, where you can have your perfect pasta with a perfect view on Lenin avenue. The popular Italian restaurant is known for its celebrated young chef, open kitchen and original dishes. The regulars come for delicious build-your-own-pasta, beetroot and ricotta ravioli and the best Pavlova cake in the city.

As you enter Pivovodymnogoedy (translating as ‘BeerDrinksTonsOfFood’) through the red phone booth, you immediately fall under the spell of this atmospheric little cafe and want to just stay here for a while. Whether it’s the laconic design of its interiors, a bicycle hanging over the bar or the hefty home-style food, Pivovodymnogoedy will leave you wanting more.

Opened by a Vietnamese-born entrepreneur, Vietmon restaurant serves traditional food from the North of Vietnam, which is neither too spicy nor too sweet, according to the owner. The interiors are simple and the food is fantastic: classic spring rolls, pho soup and fried noodles with beef and lemongrass made Vietmon a go-to place for lovers of Vietnamese food in Yekaterinburg.

Arguably the best vegetarian quick service cafe in the city, Rada boasts surprisingly delicious food that draws crowds at lunch break. Other reasons to visit this place are its orange and green joyful interiors, friendly service and a great eco-shop selling everything a vegetarian might need.

If you want to eat some authentic Russian food at an affordable price, then this quick service restaurant is just what you’re looking for. Located in the iconic constructivist building of the former Iset hotel, where the legendary Soviet restaurant “Ural Pelmeni”was once located, the Factory Kitchen is favored for its eclectic atmosphere and an impressive variety of dumplings on the menu, including the ones with bird cherry.