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Best of the Buffets

Eating in St. Petersburg can be hard on the wallet, particularly for families. If
you can't stand McDonald's or yet another salat stolichny at Yolki Palki, head for
the weekday buffet lunches at the Western hotels. The Holiday Club St. Peters-
burg's Sevilla Restaurant must be the city's best kept secret, offering soup,
salads (including delicious antipasti), hot dishes, desserts, water, and coffee for
a bargain 595 rubles. It's quite standard corporate catering fodder, but the
Novotel's Cote Jardin serves up an impressive range of salads, soup, hot
dishes, and desserts for 600 rubles. It's open until 4 pm, so dodge the queues
with a late lunch. But the Bierstube at the Corinthia Nevskij Palace Hotel (880
rubles) has to be the best of the bunch: antipasti, smoked meats, salads, deli-
cious main courses, and the best dessert selection by quite some margin.

FRENCH/RUSSIAN
Palkin

MEDITERRANEAN
Porto Maltese (Lower Nevsky-
Smolny, $$, p. 242)
RUSSIAN
BlinDonalt's (South of Nevsky, $,
p. 243)
Chainaya Lozhka (Upper Nevsky, $,
p. 239)
Hermitage Cafe (Around Palace
Square, $, p. 235)
Literaturnoye Café

(Upper Nevsky, $$$$,

p. 235)
Staraya Tamozhnya (Vasilevsky

Island, $$$, p. 245)
GEORGIAN
Bagration (Lower Nevsky-Smolny,
$$$, p. 241)
Kavkaz Bar (Lower Nevsky-
Smolny, $$, p. 241)
INTERNATIONAL
Flying Dutchman (Vasilevsky Island,
$$$, p. 244)
Lenin Lives

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(Upper Nevsky,

$$, p. 238)
Lucky Shot (Upper Nevsky, $$$,

p. 235)
NEP (Around Palace Square, $$$,
p. 234)
Pelmeny Bar

(Square of the Arts,

$$, p. 240)
Tinkoff (South of Nevsky, $$,

(Upper Nevsky, $$,

p. 243)
Triton

p. 238)
Russkaya Rybalka (Vasilevsky
Island, $$$, p. 245)
Stray Dog Cellar

(South of Nevsky, $$$$,

p. 242)
ITALIAN
Park Giuseppe (Square of the
Arts, $$$, p. 239)
JEWISH/RUSSIAN
7:40 (Vasilevsky Island, $$,
p. 246)

(Square of the

Arts, $$, p. 240)
RUSSIAN/ASIAN
Face Café (Square of the Arts, $$,
p. 239)