3 Best Restaurants in Sochi, Russia

As part of the largest private museum of Caucasian artifacts and history, the restaurant at the Amshensky Dvor Ethnographic Complex serves some of the most authentic Caucasian dishes around. Here you can watch your meal getting prepared. Lavash, an Armenian flatbread, bakes in a wood-fired oven as meats and cheeses are smoked and stews are prepared in clay pots. The museum features over 2,000 artifacts that were collected over several years by local ethnic Armenian historian Eduard Kolodjian.

This trendy chain is famous for its tasty and cheap Asian fusion food. This central Ris restaurant is located right behind the Singing Fountains and is open 24 hours a day. The crowd is young and trendy, befitting the restaurant's clubby ambiance, with glass walls that light up in different colors. The menu includes Italian, French, Japanese, and Russian dishes. There are five other Ris restaurants in Sochi, so check the website for the address nearest you.

If you walk a winding path up from the Seaport, you end up in this restaurant, whose name means Eastern Quarter. It is decorated with tile mosaics on a hillside terrace. The menu is Uzbek-Korean, with mostly Uzbek staples of pilaf, lagman (meaty noodle soup), samosas, and flatbreads. Korean-marinated, barbecued meat is also a popular option. Windows offer sea views and Eastern-themed live music is usually on tap in the evenings.