Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Sunda, April 6, St. Petersburg. Dinner.
After our mammoth day on Sunday at the Hermitage, we decided to go to an Indian restaurant for dinner. St. Petersburg is basically Paris when it comes to good restaurants and after looking at trip advisor and our Lonely Planet guide, we decided to eat at a place called Tandoori, south of Nevski Prospekt, on the other side of the street of the Admiralty Building on the river. We all love Indian food....Janet, Laura, and I all traveled together in India----they in Delhi, Agra, and Varanasi---then meeting me in Darjeeling and back to Kolkata where I was on a VCCS-CIE exchange program in 2009.
We walked toward the river for about 30 minutes down Nevski Prospekt to get there.
Not sure what to expect when trying to get Indian food in Russia, but this restaurant may have had the best service and food I've had in years. Three Indian fellows, fluent in English and Russian were running the whole place. Pleasant, fast, attentive, with a sense of humor. This place was amazing. Beer was good, Samosas excellent, Garlic Naan superb. I had a spicy lamb dish. You have to ask and encourage for spicy in Russia as their palate is not quite one that seeks heat in food. I got the heat I wanted---Laura had a vegetable korma she loved and Janet got chicken tikka masala. The décor of this place was beautiful, the music very nice as well. Left around 10 pm with the good Indian slow burn going. This restaurant was absolutely awesome.
Janet and Laura had eaten a great little veggie place called Botanika the night before and really liked it as well. Janet and I went there for tea on Tuesday before we left for Kazan and I was very impressed as well. Service was excellent. My Earl Grey teapot was perfect. The atmosphere was just great.
Food in Peter gets a thumbs up from our crowd.
We walked toward the river for about 30 minutes down Nevski Prospekt to get there.
Not sure what to expect when trying to get Indian food in Russia, but this restaurant may have had the best service and food I've had in years. Three Indian fellows, fluent in English and Russian were running the whole place. Pleasant, fast, attentive, with a sense of humor. This place was amazing. Beer was good, Samosas excellent, Garlic Naan superb. I had a spicy lamb dish. You have to ask and encourage for spicy in Russia as their palate is not quite one that seeks heat in food. I got the heat I wanted---Laura had a vegetable korma she loved and Janet got chicken tikka masala. The décor of this place was beautiful, the music very nice as well. Left around 10 pm with the good Indian slow burn going. This restaurant was absolutely awesome.
Janet and Laura had eaten a great little veggie place called Botanika the night before and really liked it as well. Janet and I went there for tea on Tuesday before we left for Kazan and I was very impressed as well. Service was excellent. My Earl Grey teapot was perfect. The atmosphere was just great.
Food in Peter gets a thumbs up from our crowd.
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