Country dossier
Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Belarus in the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Belarus
Minsk holds the largest share of EPC venues in Belarus, and the city’s central rooms show the range most clearly. These picks are the places where the capital’s wine programs and European-leaning dining are easiest to read.
Grand Café in Center is an elegant European bistro with chef-driven seasonal updates, a wine list, and an extensive wine list. The format is a la carte, with craft cocktails and weekend DJ performances.
This restaurant in Center serves Belarusian and Litvinian heritage cuisine with a wine list, a la carte and family-style service, plus craft cocktails and beer. The kitchen uses historical recipes, with consultation from food historian Ales Bely.
This Chinese restaurant serves homemade food in huge portions, with a minimal wine program and a la carte service. The dining room is in a residential setting and draws regulars from the surrounding area.
RONIN serves Japanese and pan-Asian dishes, Fornello is a Mediterranean trattoria, and Grand Café in Center serves European bistro classics. Fornello and Grand Café have wine lists, and RONIN has a minimal wine program.
Fornello is a Mediterranean trattoria with an open kitchen, a chef’s table and a wine list. It offers buffet and a la carte service, with panoramic views of the river and inner courtyard fountains.
RONIN is a modern Asian restaurant serving Japanese and pan-Asian dishes in a loft-style interior. The restaurant has a minimal wine program and serves its Japanese and pan-Asian cooking a la carte.
Grand Café in Center, Minsk, serves European bistro classics with chef-driven seasonal updates. The wine list is extensive, and craft cocktails are poured. Service is a la carte, and the room has weekend DJ performances.
Brest’s EPC venues lean toward familiar formats, from Soviet-leaning classics to Italian, kebab, and café cooking. The city’s dining scene is compact, practical, and easy to read by style.
Kafe Gagarin in Dzerzhinskoho is a Soviet-themed restaurant with Belarusian and Soviet classics, a beer program, and a la carte service. It shows how Brest handles nostalgic dining in a contemporary setting.
Mozzarella is an Italian pizzeria in Brest. The restaurant follows Italian cuisine traditions. The wine program is standard, and the service is a la carte. A delivery service is available.
Dön Kebab in Leninskiy Rayon is a local chain built around kebabs, burgers, and Turkish-style fast food. The format is practical and direct, with a la carte service and delivery options.
Outside Minsk and Brest, the guide shifts toward coffee houses and social rooms. Hrodna and Babruysk show the everyday side of Belarus dining, where drinks service and casual pacing matter as much as the menu.
HookahPlace by Smokkin in Sovetskaya Street is a hookah lounge and a European pub with hookah. It serves gastronomic cocktails, and the room includes a game room with PS4 and board games, a spotlight recreation area, and a la carte service.
Kofeynya Kakao in central Grodno is a specialty coffee house with European desserts and a la carte service. Cocoa drinks are made from rare Fino de Aroma beans, and desserts come from its own pastry workshop.
Kofeynya Pravda in Sacyjalistyčnaja is a coffee haven with baked goods, gelato, lemonades, and a loft-style interior. In Babruysk, it reflects the informal neighbourhood café culture that shapes daily drinking and gathering.
Minsk has the strongest EPC presence, with 5 restaurants in our guide. Grand Café in Center has an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. Fornello has a wine list, an open kitchen and a chef’s table.
Belarus has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. The guide covers Minsk, Brest, Hrodna and Babruysk. Grand Café in Center has an extensive wine list, and Fornello has a wine list.
Grand Café in Center and Fornello have wine lists. Grand Café has an extensive wine list. The Belarusian and Litvinian heritage restaurant in Center also has a wine list, craft cocktails and beer.
Grand Café in Center has an extensive wine list and a wine list. Fornello and the Belarusian and Litvinian heritage restaurant in Center also have wine lists. Mozzarella in central and Kafe Gagarin in Dzerzhinskoho have standard wine programs.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Belarus
Selected entries from the current guide for Belarus.
Hrodna, Belarus
A hookah lounge on Soviet Street in central Hrodna, HookahPlace by Smokkin operates in the session-based leisure format that has taken hold across Belarusian cities over the past decade. The venue serves the unhurried evening social occasion rather than a meal-centred format, placing it in a distinct category from the city's cafe and restaurant circuit.
Brest, Belarus
Kafe Gagarin sits inside Brest's evolving café culture, carrying the weight of a Soviet-era name into a contemporary dining context. The café format in Belarus occupies a different register than Western European counterparts, folding everyday ritual into something more deliberate. For visitors reading Brest's dining scene, Gagarin offers a local reference point worth understanding before exploring the city's wider restaurant options.
Hrodna, Belarus
Kofeynya Kakao occupies a compact address on Soviet Street in central Hrodna, placing it among the city's neighbourhood café options rather than its formal dining circuit. For visitors exploring Belarus beyond Minsk, it represents the kind of local coffee-house culture that sustains daily life in provincial cities, informal, accessible, and rooted in the rhythms of the street it serves.
Babruysk, Belarus
Kofeynya Pravda occupies a spot on Ulitsa Sovetskaya in central Babruysk, placing it within the everyday café culture that defines drinking and gathering habits across mid-sized Belarusian cities. With limited data available, the café fits the informal neighbourhood-coffee model common to the region, a place built around routine rather than occasion.
Brest, Belarus
Mozzarella sits within Brest's modest but evolving dining scene, offering a point of reference for those tracing how Italian-inflected concepts are taking root in western Belarus. The address places it in the city's central postal zone, putting it within reach of Brest's main commercial and cultural corridors. It operates in a market where Italian naming conventions increasingly signal a casual, approachable register distinct from the city's more formal European dining options.
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