The 5 best restaurants in Baku
From grandmother-recipe dolma to national cuisine with modern plating — the five strongest addresses of the Baku table. We have eaten at ev…
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From the finest national tables to modern gastronomy — the five best restaurants in every city.
From grandmother-recipe dolma to national cuisine with modern plating — the five strongest addresses of the Baku table. We have eaten at ev…
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From Azerbaijani classics to a Georgian table — Ganja’s five best-loved restaurants.
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Piti in clay pots and Sheki halva — the five tastiest addresses in this Silk Road town.
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Kebabs in mountain air and fish by the river — the five strongest addresses of the Gabala table.
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This category holds 36 places in the directory — including everything that did not make the five.
4.8
Family restaurant serving Azerbaijani cuisine in a green, out-of-town setting.
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4.7
Riverside restaurant with cottages near Nohur Lake, serving halal Azerbaijani food.
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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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4.5
Halal restaurant hugely popular with Gulf visitors, serving Indian, Arabic and local dishes.
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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
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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4.7
Baku's most-reviewed Indian restaurant, known for Punjabi curries and a wide vegetarian menu.
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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
Popular restaurant serving Russian home cooking in a nostalgic Soviet-era apartment setting.
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4.6
Meat-focused restaurant with a terrace on Fountain Square: steaks, burgers and American-European dishes.
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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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4.5
A basement classic by Fountains Square: Turkish and Azerbaijani cooking, generous portions, honest prices.
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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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4.4
Central Italian cuisine at Four Seasons Hotel Baku, in a light-filled hall with a terrace facing the Old City.
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4.4
Long-standing Italian restaurant in Baku serving pasta, pizza and classic Italian dishes.
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4.4
Upland Park restaurant with panoramic views over the city and bay, serving Azerbaijani and European food.
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4.4
Seaside garden restaurant in Bayil with a dacha feel, serving modern Azerbaijani cuisine and local wines.
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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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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
One of Baku's best-known steakhouses, with aged steaks, kebabs and live music in the evenings.
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4.3
Pan-Asian cooking and one of the city’s most stylish terraces: by night the restaurant turns into a lounge.
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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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4.4
Regional-cuisine restaurant with mountain views, known for milk plov (südlü aş) and local breakfast sets.
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4.4
Family restaurant popular with locals for national dishes and live music evenings.
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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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4.3
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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4.5
As its name ('national table') suggests, a restaurant serving Azerbaijani soups, kebabs and home-style dishes.
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4.5
Family restaurant with a broad menu from local dishes to pizza and salads, rated highly by delivery customers.
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4.2
Ganja's go-to Georgian restaurant for khinkali, khachapuri and other Georgian classics.
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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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4.0
Central cafe-restaurant with Italian, Mexican and American dishes, among the most-reviewed places in Ganja.
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