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Korchma
Home-cooked traditional Russian food in a one-room cottage restaurant. It’s set amid other more-genuine Siberian log homes which have so far survived development pressures. Meals are presented on two-tone ceramics while an accordionist accompanies a costumed folk singer (R50 to R100 cover). There’s a 10% service charge.
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Kochevnik
Take your taste buds to the Mongolian steppe for some yurt-size portions of mutton, lamb and steak as well as filling soups and buuzy ( pozi ). Ulaan Baatar aficionados may know its sister chain of Modern Nomad restaurants. English menu and smiley service.
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Russkaya Chaynaya
Wonderful place boasting a plush fin de siècle interior equipped with gleaming samovars, matryoshka salt and pepper shakers and a collection of yesteryear tea boxes. The astroturfed summer beer garden belongs to the Red Hall Pub downstairs.
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Na Zamorskoy
Fresh roses, rattan furniture, raffia-threaded blinds and lots of potted plants make this a soothing lunch spot. Enjoy delicious ham-and-cheese stuffed bliny and an excellent latte while watching the trams rattle past the church opposite.
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Kafe Temp
For a slice of pure Soviet ambience try Kafe Temp, a sit-down cafeteria with archetypal 1970s décor. Amusingly surly staff bark bad-temperedly from behind gently vibrating displays of typical pre-served stolovaya stodge.
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U Dzhuzeppe
Cloyingly cute puppy photos undermine the otherwise understated elegance of high ceilings and wrought-iron fittings. Fruity eggplant and stuffed squid are much better than the microwaved pizza slices. Menu in English.
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Kafe 16
Enticing brown and beige tones purring with jazz beckon you through a unique art deco clamshell archway. Try the hard-hitting espressos (R60), and tastily garlic-edged fried cheese starters.
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Poznaya Sytny Ryad
Most appealing of the city’s cheap pozi joints is Poznaya Sytny Ryad in a primly faux-rural timber house surrounded by the disarray of the Chinese quarter.
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Krendel
The half-baked rustic theme detracts from tasty and sensibly priced grub at this new self-service open-all-hours café. The hot soups do the trick when the mercury goes south.
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Lancelot
Flaming torches lead down through a portcullis into an amusing neomedieval castle interior. There’s a menu in English with Arthurian-named dishes and European prices.
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TIC
Enjoy appetising grub by day (including some veggie dishes) or a few late beers in the evening. Provides at least a bit of nightlife for Severobaikalsk’s jaded youth.
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Arbatski Dvorik
An upmarket restaurant with English menu and a remarkable interior of imitation houses, doorways and lanterns. Incongruously, access is by walking through Fiesta fast food.
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Sportsbar OverTaim
No sports but no cover charge either. Slightly more upmarket than the general standard in Severobaikalsk, this new pub-restaurant is popular with the youth crowd.
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Snezhinka
Warm, cosy belle époque café-restaurant with attentive service and consistently good food. The swirling ironwork furniture is suitably padded.
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Fiesta Fast Food
Fiesta fast food is the most atmospheric and congenial of Irkutsk’s numerous fast-food outlets, and has free wi-fi if you eat there.
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Pyaty Okean
The speciality at this lakeside place is Baikal Abyss – fish and potatoes baked in sour cream. Eat indoors or out by the gurgling Cheremshanka stream.
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Pervach
Pervach offers imaginative Baikal-based menus in a vaulted stone-and-brick cellar, heated by real fires in winter. Some English is spoken.
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Kino Kafe
Ultrabasic, super-cheap snack tables and a handy toilet, all within the foyer of the architecturally delightful Khudozhestveny Cinema.
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Shury Mury
This handy café (next to the information centre) boasts a lakeside summer terrace and evening live music (cover R30).
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Anyuta
Evening dinner spot housed in a new red-brick building amid high-rise blocks at the northern end of town.
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Café Podlemore
Has an English menu, oven-fresh pastries but nonplussed serving staff.
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