Roberto Dos Santos, 42, hometown — Sao Paulo, owner and chef of the Brazilian restaurant Rio
In Astana many restaurants with similar and familiar cuisine for the Kazakhstanis.
I would note the Brazilian restaurant in buffet format, where a person pays one amount and eats as much as wants. Here, people think this is a dining room system, and not suitable for the mass consumer. But such cuisine is popular in the world.
No Greek cuisine, the best restaurants like Varoulko, Funky Gourmet, Galazia Hytra.
Locals do not understand what French cuisine is. Italian cuisine is loved and usual here as the Eastern and Chinese cuisine. All products are clear, known. But no one tasted real French dishes.
Estonian cuisine with a lot of seafood is interesting.
Not so many German restaurants in Astana, for example, restaurants with Michelin stars — Brenners Park Restaurant, Atelier, Horváth.
Also, there no Mexican restaurants, for example, the world brand of fast-food restaurants Taco Bell. They cook delicious Mexican dishes.
Oresto Mancini, 48 years old, hometown — Naples, executive chef of The St. Regis Astana
Astana lacks a good restaurant of Indian cuisine. Although many expats in the city want good Indian cuisine. The best Indian restaurants in the world with Michelin stars — Gymkhana, Rasoi by Vineet.
No Moroccan and general good Arabic restaurants, even though it is popular in Astana. In the world, those are Divan L’auberge restaurant — traditional Lebanese cuisine and Mezlai restaurant — Arabic cuisine.
Also, lack of qualitative cheesecake factories.
Serik Isagaliev, 32 years old, hometown — Aktobe, operations manager at Rixos President Astana
I would like to chefs from other countries come to Astana. Chefs set the trends in the cooking and get Michelin stars. Astana needs trends from chefs and delicious food will depend on them.
If the chef can't cook Pan-Asian cuisine, Chinese food then people would not understand the taste. That is why from the world brands restaurants of Gordon Ramsay, Jimmy Oliver and Arkady Novikov are famous.
Astana needs trends from chefs and delicious food will depend on them.
The trend around the world is local cuisine with local products, the cultivation of traditional dishes and the author's presentation. We have national cuisine restaurants, but even more, can be opened. For example, horse meat is used in a few places, and it is an unknown product to foreigners.
Northern Scandinavian cuisine with interesting dishes is a trend in the world. I think Astana residents will like this cuisine. For example, the best restaurants of Scandinavian cuisine Noma and Geranium have deserved Michelin star.
Not so many restaurants of good Russian cuisine. These are restaurants of Novikov Group holding, including more than 50 conceptual restaurants, network restaurants of Ginza project and Andrey Dellos' restaurant Pushkin of Russian noble cuisine.
Not enough taste of spices, for example, as in Thai cuisine. For this necessary to bring their products and ingredients for people to know it. In supermarkets, many Italian products and everyone know Italian cuisine, because simply to find mozzarella, parmesan, pesto sauce. Almost no Arab and Lebanese cuisine, no good French cuisine, like L'ambroisie and Pierre Gagnaire.
