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One chilly evening in early January we went to see Krasnaya Street, which in Königsberg’s times bore the name Schrötterstraße and was located in a …

Königsberg may have specialised in marzipan, but present-day Kaliningrad seems to have a particular liking for croissants. So much so that there’s a chain called …

My short trip to Kaspiysk was about abundant food and book shopping. When I arrived, at first I thought I’d find nothing in that seemingly …

Makhachkala impressed me with its variety of trendy Western-style coffee shops scattered all round the city centre. Not many of them serve Turkish coffee, prepared …

Featuring three ingredients — flour, sugar and butter — this traditional Dagestani dessert is commonly referred to as flour halva. It’s the first thing I …

Pirosmani, a two-storey Georgian restaurant in the centre of Makhachkala, was recommended to me well in advance of my trip to Dagestan last August. I …

A few years ago I read an article investigating the origins of ‘raf coffee’ and discovered that it’s apparently named after Rafael, or Raf, a …

… one more memorable Turkish treat I tried at a place called Galata Simitçisi on my first visit to Istanbul — tahinli çörek (their menu …