Enjoy traditional food in Izhevsk at The Taste

• Reviewed 27 Jul 2018
• Trip type Business

This restaurant is, in general, good. The staff is very respectful and clean, the food is good. The bar is also pretty good with a wide selection of liquor. You would consider that to be part of one of the best (highly rated) hotels in Izhevsk that The Taste would be an exquisite experience and even though the food is good and the service is great I can confidently say you can get better/equal food quality at a different restaurant. Now... before you go thinking this is a bad restaurant, it is not. I had here my breakfast every day (part of my hotel stay) and I had every now and then dinner here as well. The food is pretty good, well made and the presentation is phenomenal; the price, on the other hand, is a key aspect of why I think you can get better food somewhere else. Let me give you some numbers so you are better informed. One of the nights I felt like having a little bit of soup, some fettuccini (carbonara), salad and my drink (can't remember if I had wine or beer). The food was really good and it was all worth around rub 1500. That is between US$20 to US$24 or Australian $32. Not too bad considering that would be pretty much what you would pay in Australia or the US for a meal. Now... the next day I went out with a few colleagues to eat in a good restaurant (as they told me "we will not take you to a cheap restaurant... No, let's have a good Russian experience!"), I had grilled salmon with salad, two glasses of wine, some appetisers (ham, cheese, bread with an amazing sauce and olives) and one glass of vodka; I paid rub 1400 (AU $30). This second restaurant was a considerably better experience and I ate so much in those 4 hours that I can not compare the two restaurants under the same classification even though, qualitywise, both places performed the same (amazingly good). You can get a better experience for the same money somewhere else. A huge factor (or the main driving factor) why I ate here every now and then is: my Russian is not that great AND the staff at the hotel, they all speak English (even a little). If you are travelling to Izhevsk and staying at this hotel, you might think the restaurant is amazing, and it is! But I would try to venture a bit more further away from the hotel (south towards the crocodile monument or walk along the Sovetskaya Street) and get ready to have some broken communication with Russians. The experience is going to be well worth it. If you don't feel adventurous enough, feel sure the food at this place is also pretty good. Enjoy! View more