Eat, drink, love!

Here we will tell you about our favorite places in the New Year's city. In fact, this collection is about what to eat and drink in Tula to become your own. But this is inaccurate. You'll figure out love on your own, I'm sure.

Here's another thing: Your opinion may not coincide with the opinion of the authors 100 percent. It is ok.

Let's start with "Искры"

Iskra is a gastronomic quarter that everyone has written about. And even those who are lazy. The space is so organically woven into the fabric of the city that it is no longer clear how Tula lived without Iskra before. Regardless of the day of the week, it's always crowded here, but if you can still find a place on weekdays, then everything is busy on weekends.

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We will start together with Salden'S

This is exactly the story when life wanted a holiday and gave us this bar. Named after the brewery of the same name, he has already established himself so well among the locals that they trust him like their own grandmother. Here you need to take a pint of cold water on tap, or preferably two. As a matter of fact, start learning the basics of cultural drinking from here. You'll like it. We continue in the author's Lil Pil glass room. It's bright, fun, free, easy, strong, and even if you're there for the first time, it feels like everyone belongs there.

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After Iskra, we move towards the Metallers

If you want to "look like a naughty Tula reveler", check out "Local".

The bar is filled with local memes, references to urban legends, a kind of homage to Tula, which tourists do not know, but which they always wanted to ask about. The laconic interior, witty names in the tincture map, the simplest snacks in an interesting presentation — in general, everything that we love so much about atmospheric wineglasses in St. Petersburg miraculously turned out to be in Tula, and this is an absolute plus on the gastronomic map of the city. I want to believe that this is serious and for a long time.

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If you're in a less cheeky mood, go to Well well well.

A concise, thoughtful bar with an excellent menu and, as it seems to us, an outstanding wine list, which often arranges blues and jazz on its site. Tables should definitely be booked in advance. In winter, the guys cook grog outside, treat you to tangerines and, if they really like you, give you surprise gifts. If you meet cheerful tourists on the way, then they definitely had time to try the drinks at the wellwell and will return soon for more.

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So, definitely, in the hero city you need to try gingerbread raff in a coffee shop. Any Tula coffee shop makes it. The local barristers are still arguing about who came up with the idea to make it first, but these are their professional discussions. We drink gingerbread raff in two coffee shops, and we'll tell you about them:

Coffee shops "Coffee Cult" —

An urban chain with its own traditions, delicious coffee, new recipes, and beautiful prints on warm hoodies that you can buy here. And to be fair, it was these guys who came up with the idea of making gingerbread raff in our beloved city.

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Coffee shops MgSir —

It is a popular breakfast spot among both locals and tourists. It's light, free, and fresh. Excellent line of desserts, excellent espresso roasting from "Grain", excellent service, as in many other coffee shops in Tula. It's just that MgSir doesn't try to emphasize this, but prefers to pretend that there is something unusual about it. Not really. But the coffee is really delicious.

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And be sure to visit Levshinsky Festival. With an "E" (this is important).

In the 19th century, Vasily Levshin, a Tula nobleman and gastroenterologist, published the book "Russian Cookery" and laid the foundation for culinary literature about Russian cuisine. And in the 21st century, a festival was launched in Tula in his honor. Details about the participants and dishes are here — https://visittula.com/lyovshins-dinner-2022/. But if we talk about our preferences, then on the first of January in the morning, we would have a vinaigrette with salted pears, cabbage soup with boiled veal. For the second — a side of pork with potatoes, for compote — a jug of cold hopped cider (well, who likes what) and go ahead to conquer Tula.

The holidays are just beginning!