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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…

Restaurants

An ethnic restaurant of Buryat and Mongolian cuisine on 3 Iyulya Street, beside the 130th Quarter. It is known for buuzy in…

Restaurants

An ethnic restaurant of Mongolian cuisine in a separate building on Gorky Street, close to the center. It is known for buuzy,…