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Hotels

A four-star hotel with 208 rooms in a single building near the Angara embankment. It opened in 2011 as a Courtyard by…

Hotels

A small designer hotel with 25 rooms in the center of Irkutsk, designed by a Japanese architect. It has a spa, two…

Hotels

A small hotel with 17 rooms in a historic building on Lenin Street, at the edge of the old town. Rooms have…

Hotels

A five-star boutique hotel on 3 Iyulya Street, a short walk from the 130th Quarter. It has about 40 rooms, an indoor…

Hotels

A five-star design hotel on the Angara embankment, in the revived early-20th-century building of the Kurbatov and Rusanov Baths. It has 104…

Fine Dining

A panoramic restaurant on the seventh floor of the Sayen hotel, with views over the historic center, authorial European dishes and seafood.…

Restaurants

A gallery-restaurant complex in the old center with a collection of more than 350 samovars, a noble-style restaurant hall, a lounge bar…

Restaurants

A restaurant of Siberian merchant cuisine in the left wing of a 19th-century mansion that belonged to the merchant Yakov Nemchinov. It…

Restaurants

A restaurant of historical Baikal-region cuisine in a mansion on Sukhe-Bator Street, close to the oldest churches of the city. Its menu…

Restaurants

A modern restaurant of Baikal cuisine in central Irkutsk, led by chef Alexander Mordashev. The menu uses local fish, game, wild plants…