The main advantage of our fish is its freshness. Only the fresh, non-frozen fish keeps its natural texture of flesh and real organic taste. We are sure, it's worth it to endure the temporary absense of some fish types for a quality product on the plate. It happens because of storms and weather conditions of our region that could slow down the prompt delivery of fresh fish.

Our guests most often ask to prepare the fish on the open fire. That means on the chargrill located in the central hall of Taverna. Prepared on the open fire fish has smoky flavor of the bonfire and also the dish is prepared maximally fast. Besides that we fry fish in a pan, steam it and smoke it in our smokehouse. We offer hot smoked as a whole fish: pikeperch, whitefish and trout. The hit of our starters is cold-smoked whitefish: at first the fish is smoked and then it is pickled with juniper berries. The most popular soup in «Taverna Grolle» is Uha - Russian fish soup with a rich broth.

The special aspect of our menu is the smelt - culinary symbol of Saint Petersburg. The smelt fish is living in our region the whole year, but in the pre-spawning saison from January to Mai smelt is going into the less salty waters of Gulf of Finland and get its distinctive cucumber smell. Exactly at this time we offer the smelt to our guests. It's fried with the crisp crust and served with salad of fresh radish, cucumber and oil.
Every fish is served with piquant light sauce made of whipped cream with sour cream, fresh horseradish, capers and rose pepper.