Many visitors attending the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) can enjoy special culinary experiences at various restaurants throughout the city. These establishments offer unique gastronomic sets that provide an opportunity to savor exceptional flavors.

Mon Chouchou presents an “Immersion” set, a culinary journey with nine courses, each accompanied by a personal story from Chef Dmitry Reshetnikov. This set features dishes like a crispy ring with black caviar, oyster with edible silver pearl and champagne perfume, snail tartare, two types of foie gras, bouillabaisse, and Tournedos Rossini with quail and fried artichoke. The experience culminates with a chocolate cake and a golden chocolate coin.

BoBo, recognized as a top restaurant in Russia, offers the Signature XIV set. This ten-course meal, designed with sophistication and elegance in mind, includes tartlets made from tomato with lemon jelly and goat cheese, and with foie gras and eel. Other dishes include scallop carpaccio, langoustines in rice popcorn pimples with langoustine ice cream and a dressing of carrot fresh and yuzu, halibut with Béarnaise sauce, venison with lingonberries, cranberries and beetroot balsamic, and a pre-dessert of sorrel sorbet with tartare of marinated apple and begonia leaves.

The “Caviar Bar” in the “Grand Hotel Europe” features a set dedicated to the hotel’s 150th anniversary. This set, inspired by dinners from 1896 and 1916, includes eggs in an egg consisting of truffle scramble topped with sturgeon caviar, cream soup of asparagus with caviar, beef in Parisian style (a beef piece with spinach leaves and caramelized onions on a brioche with foie gras instead of the second bun), and Savaren “Calville” (a rum baba accompanied by pistachio cream and raspberries).

Frantsuza Bistrot, a popular Parisian-style bistro, offers a seven-course set featuring its main hit dishes. This set provides an immersion into French cuisine with dishes like pate of foie gras with white wine jelly, tartare with truffle mousse, pie with rapanas and porcini mushrooms, duck cabbage roll with foie gras, quail with spelt and white mushrooms, and Pavlova dessert, where only a thin meringue sits on top of passion fruit curd, marinated pear and vanilla cream with white chocolate.

Mr. Bo, a restaurant known for its author’s view of Asian cuisine, presents a Chinese set. This five-course meal includes steamed bao buns with shrimp, cilantro, and mango and chili sauce, dim sum filled with beef and truffle sauce, Char Siu pork served with pancakes, kimchi cabbage, and enoki mushrooms, wok-cooked beef in pepper sauce with salted wild garlic, soy sprouts and pak choi cabbage, and a dessert that resembles a mooncake but is essentially a potato cake with a filling of custard and cream cheese.