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From the finest national tables to modern gastronomy — the five best restaurants in every city.

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Top 5 Baku · Restaurants

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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Top 5 Gabala · Restaurants

The 5 best restaurants in Gabala

Kebabs in mountain air and fish by the river — the five strongest addresses of the Gabala table.

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Restaurants — every address

This category holds 36 places in the directory — including everything that did not make the five.

Gabala 6

LAPAN Restaurant

4.8

Family restaurant serving Azerbaijani cuisine in a green, out-of-town setting.

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Fontan Restaurant

4.7

One of Gabala's most-reviewed restaurants, known for its lamb basket and national dishes.

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Asgard

4.7

Highly rated, popular restaurant in central Gabala with a broad menu.

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Caspian Fish & Seafood

4.4

Gabala's go-to fish and seafood restaurant, near the Qafqaz resorts.

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Baku 18

Qala Divari

Qala Divari

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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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Shah Restaurant & Gallery

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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Art Club Restaurant

4.7

Restaurant and art gallery in a restored historic Old City townhouse, serving Azerbaijani and European dishes.

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Maharani Indian Restaurant

4.7

Baku's most-reviewed Indian restaurant, known for Punjabi curries and a wide vegetarian menu.

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Sahil Bar & Restaurant

4.6

European food, good cocktails and weekend live music — a reliable meeting point in the centre.

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Mari Vanna

Mari Vanna

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4.6

Popular restaurant serving Russian home cooking in a nostalgic Soviet-era apartment setting.

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Meating Point

Meating Point

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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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Dolma Restaurant

4.5

Old-Baku-themed restaurant near Fountain Square, famed for its many kinds of dolma and live music.

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Firuzə

Firuzə

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4.5

A basement classic by Fountains Square: Turkish and Azerbaijani cooking, generous portions, honest prices.

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Sumakh

Sumakh

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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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Zafferano

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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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Scalini Italian Restaurant

4.4

Long-standing Italian restaurant in Baku serving pasta, pizza and classic Italian dishes.

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Manzara Restaurant

Manzara Restaurant

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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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Chayki

Chayki

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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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Qaynana Restaurant

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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Şirvanşah Muzey Restoran

4.3

A restaurant-museum: the classic Azerbaijani table amid thousands of antiques, live mugham and a ceremonial plov service.

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Mangal Steak House

Mangal Steak House

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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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Chinar

Chinar

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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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Sheki 7

Serin Restaurant

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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VIP Karvan Restaurant

4.4

Regional-cuisine restaurant with mountain views, known for milk plov (südlü aş) and local breakfast sets.

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Sheki House

4.4

Family restaurant popular with locals for national dishes and live music evenings.

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Bio Garden

4.4

Farm-to-table venue set among orchards and vegetable gardens, cooking with its own pesticide-free produce.

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Sultan House Restaurant

4.3

Popular old-town restaurant serving classic Azerbaijani dishes such as shashlik, plov and dolma.

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Restoran Qaqarin (Gagarin)

4.1

Long-running spot near the caravanserai with a mountain-view terrace, famed among travellers for its piti.

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Ganja 5

Milli Sufra

Milli Sufra

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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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Eden Restaurant

4.5

Family restaurant with a broad menu from local dishes to pizza and salads, rated highly by delivery customers.

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Saperavi Georgian Restaurant

4.2

Ganja's go-to Georgian restaurant for khinkali, khachapuri and other Georgian classics.

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Kolorit Cafe & Dining

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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Mohito Restaurant

4.0

Central cafe-restaurant with Italian, Mexican and American dishes, among the most-reviewed places in Ganja.

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