Bishkek is quite a modern town with lots of restaurants, bars, and coffee houses. With all the large street trees, many places provide very nice dining, both indoors and outside. Questions about the food on our trips are often times my most frequent questions, so here goes with our first lunch in Bishkek.

The street at this restaurant is in the background in the first photo but you wouldn’t really know it due to all the trees and bushes. This is the outside dining area. It has water misters for the heat and it was around ninety this day so they are spraying. It has lights for night time and lots of plants and flowers.

We ate inside (2nd photo) but it almost looks like we were outside with all the glass windows and indoor and outdoor plants.

I think every meal came with fresh-baked bread and commonly, we were served two or more different kinds of bread. Our salad was very crisp and fresh. It was hard to determine all of the ingredients but certainly this salad included red cabbage and beets, plus some carrots, onions, squash, and more items.

The main dish came piping hot in tin foil. It was a fresh fish with vegetables including tomato, eggplant, zucchini, peppers. We also had olives and other things on the plate that were not hot. It was all very good.

Dessert was a cream-cheese and honey stuffed crepe with a fresh made cherry sauce to pore over it.