At this point, I cannot help but wonder how many people I have mistakenly offended with how I label the restaurants I try to share with all my lovely readers. This week, I want to write about the more “exotic” options Nizhny has to offer when it comes to business lunch deals. What do I […]
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Let us continue our journey into the expansive (but not so expensive) world of business lunch deals in Nizhny Novgorod. This week, we will be covering some of the more “modern” or as some of them put it, “European” cuisines in town. In all honesty, labelling the following restaurants in one way or another is
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the “fishier” options on menus you can find around Nizhny Novgorod’s many restaurants and fast-food joints. As a Turk, it is rather interesting for me to see that though fish does have a place in some menus, shrimps make an appearance more often. Shrimps are, for the most
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Nizhny is an extremely artistic and industrial city. It is an interesting combination, I know. This means that it is full to the brim with art museums and collections dedicated to engineering marvels, on which I will have dedicated articles by the time I will finish writing on Nizhny. This also means that the more
Some time ago, I wrote about business lunches in Nizhny Novgorod with a focus on the more “Slavic” restaurants and their deals. This time I will be introducing you to some more establishments in the field, now concentrating on the more “oriental” options the city has, with that vague term roughly referring to the Caucasus,
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Every now and then I come across some establishments and immediately have this urge to share with them with you, my dear readers, but I cannot. There is simply not a category that they fit in. I prefer decent sized (and fittingly themed) weekly updates to anything else, so there is simply no decent way
Affectionally known as the “butter week,” Maslenitsa is an extremely tasty and quirky week-long festival that is celebrated in many Eastern European countries, including the Russian Federation. It is a goodbye for winter, and a hello to the spring. It is also the week before Lent, when many Christians try to rid themselves of what
Despite having access to two massive rivers, Nizhny Novgorod does not really have a lot of “on the go” spots for fish-centric dishes. There is a lot of seafood going around, but most is consumed at home, or at decent restaurants. As some of my readers may know by now, I feel more comfortable eating
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For a foreigner, the term “business lunch” may not mean much or mean something that it does not really stand for in the Russian Federation. Here, the term is used to refer to certain restaurants’ lunchtime deals that allow you to sample their cuisine at a fraction of the cost. Anyone, not only those that
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I do not sing, nor do I play an instrument, and given the fact that I can hardly write with a pencil at hand please do not even get any ideas about my painting skills… Doodling was the best that I could do as a kid, and that should tell you a thing or two
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