Eating Out in Perm

When getting ready to travel to Perm we spoke to a number of folks who had travelled to Perm recently, and asked them about where they ate.  Most of them mentioned eating at the hotel, but very few of them mentioned any other places to eat around town.  We also read several blogs/forums that said finding folks that spoke English in restaurants or had English menus was very hard. Being the intrepid travelers that we are, we decided that we wanted to do more than just eat at the hotel.  Although both hotels we ate at had good restaurants with staff that spoke English and English menu's, we wanted to experience more of foods available in Perm. 

The great news is that almost every place we walked into had at least someone on the staff the spoke okay English, and all but one place had English menu's.  The food and beverage choices were very wide,  including Mexican, Japanese, German, Italian, Ukrainian, Georgian, and of course Russian.    Here is a brief selection of the places where we had dinner:

Locos Gringos

Just up the street from the Ural hotel, and a 2 block walk from the nearest Tram 11 stop, Locos Gringos had a decent selection of Mexican styled food and good beer!  Avoid the hamburgers, but the fajitas and nachos were okay. 

German Restaurant

At the corner across the street from Locos Gringos is this German restaurant.  The potatoes with Dinner had happy faces, and the food was very good!

We ate dinner at these places and enjoyed our meals.  The service was excellent and the food was very good for the most part.  My only disappointment was the hamburger at Locos Gringos (If you need a hamburger fix, go the fast food route!).

One thing to remember is that most of the restaurants in Russia have limited no smoking areas, so you can expect to have smokers nearby.