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 Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 4:13 am Post subject: FOOD & DINING IN ARMENIA / ARMENIA DINING GUIDE |
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FOOD & DINING IN ARMENIA
GENERAL
A restaurant and cafe culture is starting to flourish again in Armenia, with street stalls and privately run establishments replacing the colourless state restaurants typical of the Soviet era. New cafes and restaurants open daily. Many of the cafes are in parks, and are very popular in summer with locals and tourists alike.
Much of Armenian cooking is based on lamb, either grilled and served as shashlik with flat bread, or prepared as soup (the most popular being bozbash, a dish which exists in infinite variations) or stew, often in combination with fruit or nuts. A meal usually starts with a large spread of hors d’oeuvres, which may include peppers and vine leaves stuffed with rice and meat, pickled and fresh vegetables, salty white sheep’s cheese eaten with fresh green herbs and flat bread, and various kinds of cured meat (basturma).
During the season following the grape harvest, locals sell effervescent, mildly fermented grape juice from roadside stands. Armenia is also abundant in all kinds of sweet-tasting fruits, from figs to pomegranates to quince. Coffee is served Turkish-style – strong and black in tiny cups – although in view of national sensibilities, visitors would be ill-advised to refer to this cultural similarity.
National specialties
• Sharots (Sujukh) is cooked with grape juice and a dark cherry-coloured syrup called doshab.
• Lavash is a think, paper-like bread.
• Shampours are skewers that are jam-packed with all kinds of marinated meat and vegetables
• Delectable walnut jam (popok muraba).
• Tolma (vegetables, grape leaves and lentils).
• Ghapama is pumpkin stew with rice, raisins, apples and cinnamon.
• Khash is a national institution rather than just a dish, with poems and songs throughout the centuries being composed in homage to it: in case you are wondering, khash is a delicious broth made from hamhocks and herbs and served with lots of garlic and bread.
• K'rchik is pickled cabbage cooked with wheat kernels.
• Among Armenia's many varieties of fresh fish available, try steamed Ishkhan (lake trout).
• Almost magical, health-giving properties are ascribed to dried apricots from the Caucasus.
• For dessert, eat a dish made from grape juice, dried into thin sheets of a deep, reddish brown colour, and then rolled up into long cylinders around walnuts or other nuts.
National drinks
• Brandies are exceptional (Dvin).
• Kotayk and Kihikia are Armenian beers worth giving a go.
• Armenian wine is well worth tasting: the Areni red wine is particularly lauded and many are semi- sweet or dessert wines and are world-renowned.
Legal drinking age: There is no minimum.
Tipping: Expected by waiters and doormen in restaurants – sometimes in advance to ensure service.
PLACES TO DINE
Ai Leoni
40 Toumanian Street,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 538-331/ 530-892
E-mail: aileoni@web.am
Website: www.aileoni.am
Ani
19 Sayat Nova Avenue,
Ani Plaza Hotel,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 594-531/ 589-500
E-mail: info@anihotel.com
Website: www.anihotel.com
Arma
275 Norki Ayginer Street,
Arma Hotel,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 546-000/ 581-843/ 522-779
E-mail: hotel@arma.am
Website: www.arma.am
Armenian Brasserie
Republic Square,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 599-000/ 599-248
Fax: (+374 10) 599001
E-mail: armenia.marriott@hotelmail.r.am
Website: www.marriott.com/EVNMC
Avan Villa Yerevan
13 Nork Marash Street,
Building 16,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 547-888/ 543-122/ 542-707
E-mail: hotels@tufenkian.am
Website: www.tufenkianheritage.com
Aviatrans
4 Abovian Street,
Aviatrans Hotel,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 567-228
Fax: (+374 10) 584-442
E-mail: hotel@aviatrans.am
Website: www.aviatrans.am
Bacchus
29 Tumanian Street,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 564-600/ 620
E-mail: bacchus@netsys.am
Bellini
3 Amiryan Street,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 545-900/ 400
E-mail: info@bellini.am
Website: www.bellini.am
Bravo
13 Hrachya Kochar Street,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 270-610
E-mail: art-zebra@netsys.am
Website: www.bravo-restaurant.com
Caucasus Tavern
82 Hanrapetutyan Street,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 561-177/ 562-614
E-mail: caucasus@arminco.com
Cucina Italian Restaurant
1 Amiryan Street,
Republic Square,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 599-000/ 248
Fax: (+374 10) 599-001
E-mail: armenia.marriott@hotelmail.r.am
Website: www.marriott.com/EVNMC
Dolmama
10 Pushkin Street,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 568-931/ 561-354
E-mail: dolmam@arminco.com
Hrazdan
72 Dzorapi Street,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 531-511/ 535-332
E-mail: info@hotelhrazdan.am
Website: www.hotelhrazdan.am
Matador
40 Myasnikian Avenue,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 524-000
E-mail: valensiareservation@xgroup.am
Website: www.valensiahotel.com
Noy
7 Grigor Lusavorich Street,
Ararat Hotel,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 510-000
E-mail: info@ararathotel.am
Website: www.ararathotel.am
Old Erivan
2 Northern Avenue,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 540-575/ 588-855
E-mail: olderivan@netsys.am
Website: www.olderivan.am
Olympia
56 Barbius Street,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 277-424/ 271-850/ 826
Fax: (+374 10) 271-850
E-mail: info@olympia.am
Website: www.olympia.am
Phoenicia
3 Tamanyan Street,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 561-894
E-mail: info@phoenicia.am
Website: www.phoenicia.am
Rossini
14 Abovian Street,
Golden Tulip Yerevan Hotel,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 589-400
E-mail: info@goldentuliphotelyerevan.com
Website: www.goldentuliphotelyerevan.com
Square One
1/3 Abovyan Street,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 566-169/ 546-414
E-mail: eat@squareone.am
Website: www.squareone.am
Water World
40 Myasnikian Street,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 649-730/ 524-000
E-mail: valensiahotel@valensiahotel.am
Website: www.waterworld.am
Zangou
1 Kievian Street,
Yerevan
Phone: (+374 10) 276021/ 071/ 225-030
Fax: (+374 10) 225-030
E-mail: andako@netsys.am |
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