If you're staying at the Hotel Diplomat, this is within walking distance.
Restaurant:
2 large shark steaks, with cream+onion potatoes
4 x 0.5L + 0.2L beer
1 shot of something vodka-ish
1 garlic bread
1 mineral water
approx £12.50
Very nice, low lighting, high ceilings (to get away from the endemic cigarette smoke) open hearth and 1/4 of the price of the tourist zone.
Corner of V.P. akalova and Narodny obrany
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