The Legendary Restaurant that Remembers the Russian Tsar Nicholas II
The oldest hotel in Russia, the Grand Hotel Europe, is located in the very center of Saint Petersburg, on the Nevsky Prospekt. It is celebrating its 150th birthday in 2025. L'Europe Restaurant was opened in this hotel in 1905. Among the visitors were members of the Romanov royal family. For 130 years, it has been serving guests at the highest level and its appearance has hardly changed. Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Chaliapin and Igor Stravinsky, Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Presidents Jacques Chirac and Bill Clinton and many others dined here.
L'Europe Restaurant is an Art Nouveau gem. A striking decoration of the hall includes the majestic stained glass “Apollo in His Chariot” designed by Leonty Benois and carved wooden balconies. Here you will find a combination of high style, live music and delicious traditional cuisine. For those who prefer a chamber format, there are five cozy rooms. Everything is unique here, and this place is for unique events!
The most interesting dishes of the restaurant can be ordered in the format of a tasting menu of six courses. Let's note the most delicate Kamchatka crab in Romanov style with salmon caviar and champagne sauce, as well as beef stroganoff from prime beef which is prepared here according to the family recipe of the former guest, Baroness Helen Stroganova.
The restaurant hosts jazz brunches twice a month on Sundays. What's not here! Unlimited champagne, caviar and oysters, exquisite French, Russian, Italian and pan-Asian dishes, Peking duck, a station with desserts from the pastry chef.
Community MICE&more members have repeatedly attended the iconic Tchaikovsky Evenings. An amazing dinner of a five-course set menu is held by candlelight. The culmination of the opera and ballet program is the “Snow Adagio” and the pas de deux from the ballet “The Nutcracker,” as well as the beloved “Waltz of Flowers.”
But the main treasure of the restaurant's menu (which we can't help but mention!) is egg porridge with truffle oil and sturgeon caviar, served in a shell. This dish is offered in only a few gourmet restaurants in the world. It has an exceptionally delicate taste, and in the exquisite presentation of L'Europe Restaurant it resembles one of precious jewelry eggs, displayed in the Faberge Museum next to the hotel.
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