More food choices

During our stays in Perm, we tried to sample a wide variety of restaurants.   The Ukrainian place had great food, but at times communications was challenging.  This place was just down the road from the URAL hotel and was very busy every time we were there.  They also had a really cool xmas tree with carrots and rabbits on it (2011 is the year of the rabbit).  It is common to see the cutout statues outside of these types of eateries, which makes things easier when you can't read the Russian. 

Heba was more of a night club but they also served lunch.  I think we surprised the wait staff by actually wanting to eat lunch there, however the meal was good and reasonable.  They had a pretty nice selection of beer as well. 

On the side of the Heba building is this absolutely wonderful whole-in-the-wall lunch place.  This is a no nonsense workers lunch, with wonderful stuffed breads and rolls.  This was also the first time we saw a mustard dipping sauce available with these foods.  The mustard sauce was very tasty, in fact we have tried to replicate it home a couple of times now.

While walking the green line tourist route, we were starting to get hungry when we ran across this combined Italian and Sushi restaurant.  Depending on what you wanted to eat, you were seated in a different area of the same building.  The food was good, and during the summer months they were running specials on different flavors of mojitos, which is a Caribbean rum based drink.  You may wonder why they have Caribbean drinks in Russia, but then you have to remember that during the Soviet times, Cuba was a very strong friends with Russia.  This place was our first attempt at getting food outside of our hotel, and it went well enough that we were willing to try everywhere else.