My first ever meal in St. Petersburg is at this Ginza Project owned International Cuisine calledGastronomika. I didn’t choose it! My lovely colleague who planned most of the St. Petersburg trip chose it, and kudos to her for choosing such an awesome restaurant.

This restaurant is located on the top floor of a mall called the “Olympic Plaza” and as such it provided a beautiful, astonishing view of St. Petersburg. We did request a window seat, and the restaurant obliged without us having to pay anything extra! Scoreeeeeee.

The food here was pretty decent, I got the pad thai as I was still craving thai food from my previous bangkok trip. Also ordered the Tom Yum soup because well…Tom Yum is just damn delicious. My colleague got the burger starters and also complimented. Overall, fantastic dining experience.

You know what was also really cool at this restaurant? The…

Okay so here’s a question. What do you think my first meal in Moscow would be? Authentic Russian Food? Hell no.

It would a burger.

A kick ass burger, at a kick ass restaurant that is called City Space. This bar / lounge / restaurant is located on the top floor of the Swissotel that I was staying in. Truth be told I came here because I was damn tired after at 12+ hour flight to Moscow. I just wanted to eat somewhere close, and since this place came highly recommended by my peers I decided to try it out.

I naturally, ordered the burger. As you can tell from the picture this was super good, and super delicious. Yep, it’s not of those foods where it only looks good but is shitty to eat. It looks good, tastes good. Super recommend it.

And yes that’s a Cesar drink…