TO EAT
TUNDRA GRILL & BAR
ТУНДРА
About
The best new restarurant in Murmansk which singlehandedly created the tundra cuisine. The menu is just beautiful, you'd probably want to order everything they have right away. It starts with a section called 'Made in Arctic' which includes various specialties from the region. In fact, most of the ingredients are local, coming from the nearby tundra farmsteads. Besides, all dishes are beautifully decorated with pebbles, shells, logs, coals and moss. Imagine that you went camping in the tundra for several days. You sit by the fire, and eat a tinned reindeer meet, cook your fish soup and bake your bread over a campfire. So don't be surprised if your dish comes in an open tin or in a campfire cookware. The combinations may sound strange, but don't hesitate to try them, everything they serve is truly delicious.
The restaurant is located on a hill in the centre of Murmansk, next to the cinema 'Murmansk', and opposite a café called 'Yunost'. The easiest way to get there from the central Lenina St. is to turn to Karl Marx St. at the crossing where the Local Lore Museum is located, and climb up the street for 10-15min until you get to Polyarnye Zori St. The restaurant doesn't accept reservations, so just show up, they usually have tables available.
Info
49/2 Polyarnye Zori St. (ул. Полярные Зори, д. 49/2)
+7 8152 77 70 70
Go to Website (only in Russian)
Mon-Sun 12pm-12am
Menu in English
English-speaking staff
Best for lunch/dinner
Order this: seaweed and smoked salt ice-cream from Teriberka; baked duck and honey bread tiramisu, scallops baked in shells with pumpkin cream and seaweeds; 'Tundra' cream with mushrooms; fried potatoes and quail eggs; bread with mushrooms baked over campfire; reindeer tongue served with fern; Laplandish ukha (fish soup) with codfish, salmon and shrimps in cream; grilled reindeer with mashed potato and mushroom mousse; stewed reindeer with mushrooms and barley; cowberry cake; infusions made with local herbs (cowberry, raspberry, buckthorn, cranberry, thyme, mint, etc.); Refreshing Tundra coctails with vodka, redcurrant, and honey; Warming Arctic Circle with Earl Grey tea, Vanna Tallinn and Frangelico liquors, and orange peels; cloudberry tea, etc.
ROYAL HUNT
ЦАРСКАЯ ОХОТА
About
One of the best upscale restaurants in town, Tsarskaya Okhota has been around since 2000. After 15 years in service, it's still a signature place in town where locals (especially people over 40) would go to celebrate their birthdays, weddings, etc. The place looks like a luxurious hunter's lodge with stuffed bears and wolves, and skins of various local animals on the walls. The menu is huge, and includes Russian dishes with a northern twist, and a signature menu by a celebrated chef Maksim Syrnikov who is known for rediscovering and recreating traditional Russian cuisine.
The restaurant is located in the southern part of Murmansk, on one of the city's throughways. It's around 5km from the centre, and can be reached by taxi or bus. Book table in advance, especially on weekends.
Info
86 Kolskiy Prospect (Кольский проспект., д. 86)
+7 8152 25 52 24
Go to Website (only in Russian)
Mon-Sun 12pm-12am (kitchen closes at 11pm)
Menu in English
English-speaking staff
Best for lunch/dinner
Order this: Pickled vegetables and soused fruites and berries, traditional Russian cabbage soup (shchi); Pozharsky cutlet; Russian Guriev semolina porridge cooked in baked milk with cloudberries; fish and meat pies (kulyebyaka and kurnik); quail baked in rye bread with baked apple and stewed cowberries; dry-cured reindeer with horseradish sauce; Murmansk scallops with green pea sauce; reindeer with mashed potatoes, mushrooms and baked milk sauce; oven-baked moose on a potato cutlet; cottage cheese pancakes with cowberry sauce, sour cream and baked milk cream.
TERRASA LOUNGE CAFE
About
A new place to go in Murmansk offers everything that locals would want: cozy surroundings with sofas and flowers everywhere, panoramic views over the central square, loads of fish and seafood from the nearby Barents Sea, a separate Japanese menu with sushi and rolls, and a bar/nightclub on the top floor to finish off the evening. Despite the restaurant's attempts to cater for all tastes, the menu is unusual and the food is beautifully presented, and really tasty.
The restaurant is located on the 4th floor of a shopping mall just off the central Five Corners Square, and opposite the Azimut Hotel, and the central post office. Enter through the door next to Rive Gauche (Рив Гош) store, and take lift to the 4th floor.
Info
69 Lenina Prospect (пр. Ленина, д. 69)
+7 8152 37 73 77
Go to Website (only in Russian)
Mon-Thu, Sun 12pm-12am, Fri-Sat 12pm-2am
Menu in English
English-speaking staff
Best for lunch/dinner
Order this: Pumpkin cappuccino soup; Murmansk salmon with creamy mustard sauce; reindeer with baked pumpkin and berry sauce; Murmansk sea scallops with cauliflower sauce; dorado fillet in apple caramel with beetroot risotto; salmon in orange miso sauce, with mashed celery and apple sauce; trout fillet in almond sauce with with stewed zucchini; baked cheesecake with rye-bread ice-cream and pine nutes; Polar Romance coctail with Husky Vodka, sour apple liquor, bilberry juice, and apple.
WHITE RABBIT
БЕЛЫЙ КРОЛИК
About
White Rabbit is a combination of a coffeeshop, a bakery, a patisserie, and a restaurant. For a snack and a cup of coffee, enter through the left entrance which leads to a small café where you can buy various pastry and cakes for takeaway, or have them with a cup of tea of coffee at one of the tables by the window. The right entrance (or the passage from the café) leads to a more upscale restaurant with two spacious rooms. White Rabbit is one of the few places in town which serves hearty and varied breakfast. Don't miss the passage between the café and the restaurant, it's where Matilda lives in here own two-storey house. Matilda is the white rabbit who gave name to the restaurant (or the other way around), she can be shy or whimsical at times, but she won't mind if you open the doors of her house and say hi.
They serve lunch from 12pm until 4pm with the soup of the day for 90₽, dish of the day for 190₽; pastry and a drink for 60₽. Main menu is also available.
Info
20 Profsoyuzov St. (ул. Профсоюзов, д. 20)
+7 8152 55 77 77
Go to Website (only in Russian)
Mon-Fri 8am-11pm, Sat-Sun 10am-11pm
Menu in English
English-speaking staff
Best for breakfast/lunch/dessert
Order this: Rabbit with carrot puree and onion chutney; duck breast confit cooked in honey with red cabbage stewed in wine, and blackcurrant sauce; fried cheese with cowberry sauce; carrot cake; Follow the White Rabbit merengue; millet porridge with caramelised pumpkin and ice-cream; oatmeal porridge with rasperry sauce; White Rabbit milkshake; raf coffee (sweet latte made with cream instead of milk) with lavender, honey, vanilla or almonds.