Restaurants in Baku (Baki)
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Muğam Club
A wonderfully atmospheric two-storey caravanserai offers alcove and courtyard dining options accompanied by impressive cabaret shows demonstrating tasters of various Azeri musical and dance styles. The Azeri food is excellent, but prices can be exorbitant (kebabs AZN12!). Often closed for private functions.
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Bibi
By far the nicest place in Baku for Persian cuisine, the Bibi offers live but unobtrusive music in its spacious double dining hall with olde-worlde tulip-chandeliers and rush-matting to soften the ceilings. Try the kəşki badımcan (eggplant with Iranian whey; AZN4).
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Scalini’s
Speedy, waistcoated waiters deliver perfect pastas with bucket-loads of parmesan and a selection of home-cooked breads in Baku’s most congenial Italian restaurant. The décor is upmarket bistro-style with a relaxed buzz, soaring high ceilings and great movie and Martini posters.
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Çudo Peçka
Many bakeries offer stand-bars at which to eat snacks and cheap if long-stewed cups of tea or cocoa. The Çudo Peçka chain is ubiquitous, and its branch near Hotel Velotrek has seating. However, their system of pre-paying can be awkward if you don't speak Azeri.
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Karvansara Restaurant
Choose from two 14th-century caravanserais, one offering atmospherically gloomy private stone cells, the other an intriguing cellar dining room. Prices aren’t outrageous but watch out for ‘extras’.
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Mado
Designer-hip Japanese restaurant where sushi comes with beautiful ceramic soy sauce jugs and luridly over-pink sushigari. Sadly, the limp maguro tastes somewhat bland.
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L’Aparté
Open all-hours with a phenomenally wide-ranging menu and surprisingly plush décor given the incredibly modest price range.
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XVII Әsr
Decorated with old hunting weapons, this cosy mid-market restaurant offers Talysh cuisine that goes well beyond the predictable nut-stuffed ləvəngi dishes. Delicious starters (AZN3 to AZN4 per plate) include XVII əsr qəlyanaltısı (stuffed dried fruit and walnut-coated chicken balls), qoz küküsü (a patchwork of omelette-like morsels) and incə salatı (layered egg-salad with cheese and fruit topping). There’s also an AZN7 bizniz lunch.
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Fayton Club
This upmarket yet rustic stone-vaulted basement is decorated with handicrafts, şəbəkə (intricately carved, wood-framed, stained-glass windows) and an old cart in an almost-successful attempt to create a feel of 18th-century Azerbaijan. Classic Azeri foods are well made but unless you want the full-blast music show (AZN4 cover), get out before 8pm.
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Mediterranea
The garden area is superbly located for summer dining in the shadow of the Maiden’s Tower while the sleekly modernised caravanserai-covered courtyard interior is a tempting choice on colder nights. The mostly European main dishes aren’t especially memorable but mezze starters are excellent and drinks arrive with complimentary cheese and olives.
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Tonqal
Ivy-draped carts in overgrown patches of woodland create a delightfully rustic garden atmosphere that’s incongruous for the suburban setting. However the only menu is on its website and the many extras can be extremely pricey (plate of fruit AZN20!); plus the only drinking water served is imported.
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Iskəndər
The spacious Iskəndər, a Turkish restaurant, which serves inexpensive precooked meals in pleasantly semi-grand arch-vaulted premises. Point at what you fancy from the heated display of precooked meals (AZN4 to AZN6 including side dish) or order pricier made-to-order dishes.
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Divan
The stylish Divan, a Turkish restaurant, which serves inexpensive precooked meals in pleasantly semi-grand arch-vaulted premises. Point at what you fancy from the heated display of precooked meals (AZN4 to AZN6 including side dish) or order pricier made-to-order dishes.
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Anadolu 1
Anadolu 1, a Turkish restaurant, which serves inexpensive precooked meals in pleasantly semi-grand arch-vaulted premises. Point at what you fancy from the heated display of precooked meals (AZN4 to AZN6 including side dish) or order pricier made-to-order dishes.
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Georgian Home
A quantum leap in style, this suave choice makes wonderfully eclectic use of homemade pottery to give the fashionable interior a real sense of personality. Food is excellent but with prices to match. The cheapest bottle of wine costs a thumping AZN35, plus 10% service charge.
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Star
Star, a Turkish restaurant, which serves inexpensive precooked meals in pleasantly semi-grand arch-vaulted premises. Point at what you fancy from the heated display of precooked meals (AZN4 to AZN6 including side dish) or order pricier made-to-order dishes.
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Anadolu 2
Anadolu 2, a Turkish restaurant, serves inexpensive precooked meals in pleasantly semi-grand arch-vaulted premises. Point at what you fancy from the heated display of precooked meals (AZN4 to AZN6 including side dish) or order pricier made-to-order dishes.
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Pəncərə
The upstairs dining room has a wild-west wooden décor and live piano music. Ground-floor wooden booths emulate the streamside ambience of Azeri rural dining. The menu stretches from local standards to ostrich steaks. Wines from AZN6 a bottle.
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Sunset Café
The ugly plexiglass-fronted building is an eyesore, but the very agreeable cinema-themed interior is perfectly pitched and the generous salads, giant burgers and excellent sandwiches are ever-popular with expats.
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Tarelka
Calm, bright and run by women for women, this narrow little café-resto has décor based around the owner’s modest porcelain collection. Food is Russo-Azeri with an AZN10 salad buffet on Sundays.
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Bəh Bəh Club
Kilims on walls, heavy wooden tables and an excellent selection of regional food including saj (sizzler-roast) dishes and fisincan (Azeri-Iranian walnut-chicken). The live music is low-key.
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Kafe Tbilisi
Kafe Tbilisi has a tetchy manager but the prices are very reasonable (if double what the English menu says!). Try the scrumptious eggplant strips topped with walnut paste (40q each).
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U Dali
Misleadingly signed ‘Café Napoli’, U Dali serves tasty Georgian home-cooking at candlelit basement booths. It’s sweetly unsophisticated, the mushroom dishes are excellent.
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Kalinka
Calm and remarkably suave, with soaring high ceiling vaults yet very modestly priced and with a menu in English. The ‘black pearls’ (stuffed prunes; AZN2) are particularly delicious.
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