Cafe St. Petersburg

Reviews

• MK

  Mark Khayter

  3 days ago
  5.0
  Authentic food choices plus dancing. Highly recommend for new experience
• RB

  Regina Boston

  4 days ago
  5.0
  The restaurant was amazing! Everything starting with booking table and a very pleasant greeting at the door was great. Service was outstanding, we had a waiter who remembered without writing it down the order for five people including all appetizers ! He was also very helpful with recommending us dishes and drinks , he went above and beyond describing dishes even though it was very busy ! The food was amazing as well , high quality food, fresh , and presentation is outstanding ! My personal favorite was herring with onions and potatoes .
• AM

  Anna Matviichuk

  Feb 9, 2026
  5.0
  I celebrated my birthday here, and it was an amazing experience! That evening they were hosting a Super Bowl watch party, which made the atmosphere incredibly fun and exciting. Everything was wonderful — the service, the vibe, and the overall experience. Great place, highly recommended!
• GK

  gitana kaplun

  Feb 1, 2026
  5.0
  ★★★★★ Our birthday jubilee celebration at St Petersburgh Restaurant was wonderful. The food was excellent, the service was top-notch, and the restaurant looked beautiful. Special thanks to Gena and Eugene—you helped make the night feel effortless and unforgettable.
• OD

  Olivia Drabicki

  Jan 18, 2026
  2.0
  I have never been so disappointed with a restaurant until Cafe St. Petersburg. Although it's been one week today that I dined there, I feel like I only just witnessed a tragic accident that called upon all my energy and resources to rectify.. What I look for in a restaurant is do the ingredients, ambiance, and skill level of the dish justify going there? The first one is hard to know until visiting the restaurant, however, I certainly never expected to be served store-bought guacamole and raw baby spinach from a grocery store convenience tub as a side to the blini. The menu said that the salmon in the blini was smoked in-house. If it truly were, they would not have added excess amounts of cream cheese. Oh, I almost forgot to mention the two bisected cherry tomatoes tagging along with the spinach. The capers were not notable. The menu is a la carte, so you must order everything individually. This includes one-third of a cup of unseasoned mashed potatoes for $9.95. The restaurant name suggests the charming, warm atmosphere, of the actual city is what awaits for you inside. This could not be further from the truth. St. Petersburg the city is gorgeous, whereas St. Petersburg the restaurant is a tasteless ambiance with bright white lighting and blue string lights. There's also a room you pass when you check-in with the host, where all occasions are celebrated and inappropriate guests intermingle with restaurant patrons. Looking at the menu ahead of time seeing the prices and a la carte choices, my experience tells me that this is a very elegant restaurant. In reality, however, quality and quantity of the food is nowhere near justified by the high cost. Tasteless mashed potatoes for $9.95? I would expect more than than half of a cup! Potatoes are one of the cheapest things you can buy! The same amount of blueberries, a much more expensive crop, do not cost even close to $9.95 when pureed into a fine dessert! The hostess was very professional and accommodating and the manager, Daria, was lovely and warm. She picked up the slack on tasks that went unnoticed for prolonged periods of time, such as replenishing our water glasses. She offered us your "homemade" bread. It was freezing cold and the butter was too cold to spread. The brown bread was unique and tasty, but the white bread was just a store-bought ciabatta.. The stuffed cabbage was excellent good but a very small portion for the $29.00 price. Each of the four cabbage roles were about one-and-a-half ounces, filled with ground veal and pork. The menu describes the solyanka as "hearty" but it was just water with bits of bacon fat and black pearl olives floating around. The smoky flavor was good, but I could have gotten an truly hearty soup at any one of the restaurants around the corner from Cafe St. Petersburg for the same price. At those other restaurants, I get a soup as my meal! Cafe St. Petersburg is definitely cutting corners on labor by taking a run to the produce aisle for already-made guacamole and raw vegetables that shamefully went directly from container to customer plate. In my experiences, the high cost of an a la carte entree in the price range of St. Petersburg coexists with at least one side dish, as well as decor that is thoughtful and comfortable. This restaurant was too casual for an a la carte menu! I really disrespect places like this because you're milking people for their money. It's expensive to have a restaurant in Newton, but the ones that have stuck around manage to be good and fairly priced. Cafe St. Petersburg is located next to several restaurants and I prefer to have gone to any one of them over St. Petersburg. I am so disgusted by Cafe St. Petersburg. Change the name. In addition, our waiter was fine, but he was also very young and spoke to guests too casually -- Not the vibe we expected or desired. I am a very fair person and I am also extraordinarily disappointed even through today in my experience. It was not just bad, it was a travesty and never before have I felt so stolen from after paying $136.00 for absolutely nothing.