Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Astana from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Astana
Astana’s strongest wine rooms are concentrated in a small set of restaurant and bar formats, with one exceptional programme and one awarded wine bar leading the way.
In historic downtown, Cantinetta Antinori pairs an exceptional wine programme with a sommelier-led approach and Antinori family wines. The Italian-Tuscan menu includes live lobster and crab. The restaurant is in The Veil hotel, serves à la carte, and has an extensive wine list.
Provino in Kenesary is a wine bar and store where bottles are chosen from the shelves for on-site drinking or takeaway. It holds weekly tastings, sommelier service, and a Star Wine List award for 2026.
On Mangilik El Avenue, Qazaq Gourmet combines an extensive wine list, and sommelier-led service. The restaurant also works across tasting menu, set menu, and à la carte formats.
Qazaq Gourmet on Mangilik El Avenue is the only restaurant in our guide with a tasting menu and a set menu.
On Mangilik El Avenue, Qazaq Gourmet is a Modern Kazakh fine dining restaurant. Chef Artem Kantsev refines traditional Kazakh dishes, with European traditions and the steppe’s larder in the cooking. The restaurant serves a tasting menu, a set menu, and à la carte. La Liste recognised it in 2025 and 2026.
At Hilton Astana, Cloud9 serves modern international fusion from a ninth-floor rooftop, with panoramic views of the city. Seasonal dishes are served à la carte and as small plates. The wine programme has an extensive wine list and craft cocktails.
On Qabanbay Batyr Avenue, Asakusa serves Pan-Asian and Japanese cooking at The St. Regis Astana, with river and city views. Sushi and sashimi are served à la carte. The wine programme has a sake programme, craft cocktails, and an extensive wine list.
Mangilik El Avenue, historic downtown, and Kenesary matter most for serious wine in Astana. Those are the places where the city’s strongest wine programme, its awarded wine bar, and its most formal restaurant rooms cluster in our guide.
Astana has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Qazaq Gourmet on Mangilik El Avenue serves Modern Kazakh fine dining, with a tasting menu, a set menu, and à la carte. La Liste recognised the restaurant in 2025 and 2026.
Qazaq Gourmet on Mangilik El Avenue offers a tasting menu and a set menu in our guide, and it also serves à la carte. Chef Artem Kantsev refines traditional Kazakh dishes at this Modern Kazakh fine dining restaurant. It is Kazakh fine dining’s first presence on the 50 Best Discovery list and the sole Kazakh fine dining restaurant on that list. La Liste recognised it in 2025 and 2026.
Provino in Kenesary holds a Star Wine List award for 2026. Cantinetta Antinori in historic downtown holds the one exceptional wine programme in our guide, with Antinori family wines, sommelier-led service, and an extensive wine list.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Astana, Kazakhstan
Qazaq Gourmet occupies a serious position in Astana's fine-dining tier, holding La Liste recognition in both 2025 and 2026 with scores around 75-76 points. The kitchen works across Kazakh and European traditions, drawing on the steppe's larder to produce cooking that reads as both locally grounded and technically considered. On Prospekt Mangilik Yel, it is one of the city's clearest arguments for Kazakh cuisine at the formal end of the table.
Astana, Kazakhstan
Asakusa belongs to Astana’s international-dining circuit, where Japanese cues meet a city shaped by business traffic, government schedules, and a climate that rewards controlled indoor hospitality. With few public signals on format, pricing, or awards, the useful way to read it is by context: a central Astana restaurant whose value depends on ingredient handling, consistency, and how clearly the kitchen treats imported pantry staples alongside local supply.
Astana, Kazakhstan
Situated on Bauyrzhan Momyshuly Avenue in central Astana, Cafe Momona occupies a position in the city's mid-range cafe circuit where ingredient sourcing and local food culture intersect. Kazakhstan's dining scene has shifted considerably in recent years, and Astana's neighbourhood cafes reflect that change more honestly than its flagship restaurants. A practical stop for those reading the city's food culture on street level.
Astana, Kazakhstan
Cantinetta Antinori brings an Italian reference point to Astana’s international dining circuit, useful for readers comparing the capital’s polished hotel-adjacent rooms with its Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and café formats. The appeal sits less in spectacle than in the sourcing question behind Italian cooking: olive oil, wine, pasta, cheese, and produce only work when the supply chain is treated seriously.
Astana, Kazakhstan
Cloud9 belongs in the part of Astana dining where the city’s international habits matter as much as any single cuisine label. It reads less as a credential-chasing destination than as a room to assess against the capital’s broader appetite for polished, globally fluent restaurants.
Astana, Kazakhstan
The Kitchen occupies an address on Dostyq Street inside Astana's Northern Lights residential complex, placing it within a city still defining its fine-dining grammar. Without confirmed cuisine type or formal awards, it sits in a tier where ingredient provenance and kitchen discipline tend to do the arguing. For visitors building an Astana itinerary, it warrants investigation alongside the city's more documented options.
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Astana, Kazakhstan
On the banks of the Ishim River, The St. Regis Astana translates Kazakhstan's nomadic heritage into the grammar of luxury hospitality. WATG's glass-yurt architecture, butler service for every room, and a 96-point La Liste 2026 ranking place it at the summit of Astana's hotel tier. Two dining rooms, an Ishim-facing indoor pool, and a locally beloved bar complete the proposition.
Astana, Kazakhstan
Ranked 96 points on La Liste's Top Hotels 2026 and a Condé Nast Traveler top-50 pick for 2025, The Ritz-Carlton, Astana is the anchor luxury address in Kazakhstan's capital. Located within the city's first upscale multi-use complex on Dostyk Street, it runs three distinct restaurants, including a venue from acclaimed Russian group White Rabbit Family, alongside a full ESPA and Valmont spa programme.
Astana, Kazakhstan
Featured in the Tatler Best Hotels Asia-Pacific 2025 list under the boutique category, The Veil occupies a striking address on Qadyrghali Zhalayyri Street in central Astana. The property sits among the Kazakh capital's most architecturally ambitious new hotels, positioning itself as a design-led alternative to the international chain options that dominate the city's upper tier.
Astana, Kazakhstan
Astana's luxury business hotel scene is anchored by a handful of international names, and Hilton Astana has earned recognition at both regional and country level, taking Regional Winner for Luxury Hotel and Country Winner for Luxury City Business Hotel. Located on Heydar Aliyev Street in the capital's administrative core, it sits squarely in the tier that corporate and diplomatic travelers reach for first when the stakes are high.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Astana.
Astana, Kazakhstan
Provino on Kenesary Street is one of the few wine bars in Astana that predates the country's wine renaissance, giving it a historical position that most newer venues in Kazakhstan cannot claim. It opened before the wine culture wave reached Central Asia, which lends it a different kind of authority than the establishments that followed the trend. A reference point for anyone tracing how serious drinking culture took root in the region.
Astana, Kazakhstan
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