4.8
Round-the-clock café by Fountain Square serving Azerbaijani and international dishes, breakfast sets and terrace seating.
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Plov, dolma, piti and saj — the best tables for real Azerbaijani cooking.
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Local Azerbaijani cuisine — every address
This category holds 32 places in the directory — including everything that did not make the five.
Baku 18
Qala Divari
₼₼4.8
Family-run Old City restaurant by the fortress wall serving tandir bread, saj and lamb with cherries.
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4.7
24/7 garden teahouse with a leafy terrace, samovar tea, backgammon and dominoes, and football on a big screen.
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4.7
Restaurant-gallery styled after Shah Ismail Khatai's era, with medieval-recipe dishes, shah plov and live folk music.
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4.7
Restaurant and art gallery in a restored historic Old City townhouse, serving Azerbaijani and European dishes.
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4.6
European food, good cocktails and weekend live music — a reliable meeting point in the centre.
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4.6
Old City gourmet café built around cheese, tandir bread and a traditional Azerbaijani breakfast spread.
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4.6
Provence-style café-bistro in the Old City serving Azerbaijani dishes with a lighter French touch.
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4.6
24/7 tea garden on a bathhouse rooftop facing the Maiden Tower, serving samovar tea, jams and Azerbaijani dishes.
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4.6
24/7 teahouse opposite the Boulevard since 2003, keeping old Baku tea traditions alive in a historic building.
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Sumakh
₼₼₼4.5
The modern peak of national cuisine: bread shaped like the Maiden Tower, saj-fired lamb and one of the best Azerbaijani wine lists.
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Firuzə
₼₼4.5
A basement classic by Fountains Square: Turkish and Azerbaijani cooking, generous portions, honest prices.
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4.5
Old-Baku-themed restaurant near Fountain Square, famed for its many kinds of dolma and live music.
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4.4
Traditional tea room open until 6am, serving pot tea with pakhlava and other sweets, plus shisha.
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4.4
Old City spot for home-style Azerbaijani cooking — named after the mother-in-law — known for qutab and plov.
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Chayki
₼₼₼4.4
Seaside garden restaurant in Bayil with a dacha feel, serving modern Azerbaijani cuisine and local wines.
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4.3
A restaurant-museum: the classic Azerbaijani table amid thousands of antiques, live mugham and a ceremonial plov service.
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4.3
Café with a rooftop terrace above Torgovaya: regional Azerbaijani breakfast sets and live music in the evenings.
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Gabala 3
4.8
Family restaurant serving Azerbaijani cuisine in a green, out-of-town setting.
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4.7
One of Gabala's most-reviewed restaurants, known for its lamb basket and national dishes.
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4.7
Riverside restaurant with cottages near Nohur Lake, serving halal Azerbaijani food.
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Sheki 8
4.6
Family restaurant in the modern centre known for good-value kebabs and traditional Sheki piti.
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4.6
A 35-year-old family pitikhana whose menu is essentially just Sheki piti, cooked in clay pots.
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4.5
Family confectioner since 1950, widely named the best place in town to buy Sheki halva.
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4.4
Regional-cuisine restaurant with mountain views, known for milk plov (südlü aş) and local breakfast sets.
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4.4
Farm-to-table venue set among orchards and vegetable gardens, cooking with its own pesticide-free produce.
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4.4
Halva shop of the Yahya family, who have made Sheki halva for six generations.
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4.3
Popular old-town restaurant serving classic Azerbaijani dishes such as shashlik, plov and dolma.
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4.1
Long-running spot near the caravanserai with a mountain-view terrace, famed among travellers for its piti.
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Ganja 3
Milli Sufra
₼₼4.5
As its name ('national table') suggests, a restaurant serving Azerbaijani soups, kebabs and home-style dishes.
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4.1
Ganja's most-reviewed cafe-restaurant, by Javad Khan Street, serving European and local dishes from 9am to midnight.
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Traditional teahouse in Ganja's historic Khan's Garden, serving samovar tea in the shade of old plane trees.
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