Severyanin

Located in the old center of St. Petersburg, Severyanin serves classic Northern Russian cuisine in an elegant, warm setting that feels like a cozy local home. The delicious signature menu highlights typical dishes like Atlantic herring, smoked trout tartar and pike caviar, as well as homemade rye bread, soups and salads. Surrounded by quiet lanes and canal embankments, the restaurant is set in the area known as the “St. Petersburg of Dostoevsky,” as the writer—and many of his famous fictitious characters—lived in this part of the city. The neighborhood is also associated with other famous writers and poets like Pushkin, Gogol and Nabokov—as well as the writer for whom the restaurant was named, in part: Igor Severyanin. This is an ideal spot for lunch after a special literature-themed tour or dinner before a show at the Mariinsky theater. Severyanin also serves traditional Sunday afternoon tea and hosts poetry nights once a month.