Anthony Bourdain dines at <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kokoko.spb.ru%2Fen" target="_blank" target="_blank">CoCoCo</a> in St. Petersburg, Russia. The restaurant, owned by musician Sergey Shnurov and wife Matilda, sources its ingredients from local farmers. "Farm-to-table in Russia? Organic? Local? Why, yes. There are those who are trying," Bourdain says.
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Anthony Bourdain dines at CoCoCo in St. Petersburg, Russia. The restaurant, owned by musician Sergey Shnurov and wife Matilda, sources its ingredients from local farmers. "Farm-to-table in Russia? Organic? Local? Why, yes. There are those who are trying," Bourdain says.
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Chef Igor Grishechkin created the menu for CoCoCo. Here, he serves beef sirloin, roasted onions and beetroot in a kvass (a type of fermented beverage) sauce.
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Chef Igor Grishechkin created the menu for CoCoCo. Here, he serves beef sirloin, roasted onions and beetroot in a kvass (a type of fermented beverage) sauce.
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Bourdain samples CoCoCo's homemade infused vodka, which changes seasonally.
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Bourdain samples CoCoCo's homemade infused vodka, which changes seasonally.
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Bourdain meets with openly gay artist and filmmaker Ksenia Krabrykh (right) at a local St. Petersburg bar to discuss the current status of LGBT rights in Russia. (Dasha, left, is Bourdain's local "fixer.")
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Bourdain meets with openly gay artist and filmmaker Ksenia Krabrykh (right) at a local St. Petersburg bar to discuss the current status of LGBT rights in Russia. (Dasha, left, is Bourdain's local "fixer.")
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In Pavlovsk, a small St. Petersburg suburb, Bourdain visits the country home of Sergey Gutzait, a friend of Vladimir Putin and owner of the VIP-friendly <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.russkaya-storona.ru%2Fpetersburg%2Frestaurants%2FPodvorye%2F" target="_blank" target="_blank">Podvorye restaurant</a>.
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In Pavlovsk, a small St. Petersburg suburb, Bourdain visits the country home of Sergey Gutzait, a friend of Vladimir Putin and owner of the VIP-friendly Podvorye restaurant.
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Gutzait serves kebabs to Bourdain as they chew over the contentious aspects of Russian President Putin.
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Gutzait serves kebabs to Bourdain as they chew over the contentious aspects of Russian President Putin.
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