Nevsky’s food classics

⏱ 3 h 30 min🚶 3 km🍽 5📍 5 stops

🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

Pyshki, Sever éclairs, dinner at Palkin and a market — the city’s history, by taste.

🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture

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☕️ Pyshechnaya on Bolshaya Konyushennaya
Б. Конюшенная ул., 25
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We start with pyshki
🍴 A Leningrad-style doughnut shop with a Soviet interior and an unchanged recipe since 1958, everything served at the counter. What to order: pyshki (Petersburg doughnuts) with powdered sugar, coffee with condensed milk from the urn, tea.
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☕️ Sever confectionery
Невский пр., 44
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Sever cake and éclairs
🍴 The historic Sever confectionery (since 1903), now the Sever-Metropol chain; at Nevsky 44 there is a shop-counter and a café with a dining room. What to order: the Prague cake, a glazed éclair, a cream-filled basket tartlet, almond cookies.
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☕️ Eliseevsky Store
Невский пр., 56
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Tea under Art Nouveau stained glass
🍴 A food hall in an Art Nouveau building from 1903 (now the Eliseev Merchants' Store) with a café by the display counters, a restaurant on the 2nd floor and “Warehouse No. 5” in the former wine cellar. What to order: cakes from their own pastry shop, tea, shchi in a bread loaf, chocolate as a gift.
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🍽 Palkin restaurant
Невский пр., 47
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Lunch: Russian cuisine since 1785
🍴 A restaurant on the site of the famous Palkin tavern (founded in 1785): pre-revolutionary Russian cuisine with theatrical presentation and a historic interior. What to order: sterlet in white wine, day-old shchi, Olivier salad, the “Anna Pavlova” cake.
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🧺 Kuznechny Market
Кузнечный пер., 3
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Try the honey and sauerkraut
🍴 A covered market from the 1920s by Vladimirskaya metro: farm meat, dairy, pickles, honey, spices, fish. What to buy: curd cheese and sour cream at the farm stalls, honey and dried fruit with tastings, Ceylon tea in the shop on the second floor.