Where to eat in Dilijan

11 independent restaurants, bakeries and food spots in Dilijan. Chains are left out.

Ranked with the travel guide's picks and well-known places first.

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Bar & Grill "Flying Ostrich" by Dolmama
Fancy bar & restaurant with nicely decorated interior. Live music played at some of the evenings.
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Cafe #2
A large, modern cafe overlooking a lake, with food options, free wifi, and space to work.
Closed · opens 9 amUS$1 to 10
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Cafe Dili
Inexpensive small family restaurant with 6 tables serving Armenian food and some other fast food options. Owners assure they use only local organic ingredients for cooking and indeed it tastes really good. Portions are of decent size. WiFi. No alcohol except beer. There is adjacent bakery cooking nice cakes and cookies, which can be taken away or eaten in the cafe.
Mains 500-2,000 dram
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Getap Restaurant and hotel complex
Great traditional wooden eating booths outdoors, some of them over the river serve as the perfect setting for fresh fish, meat or vegetable barbecues. There is also children's playground, table tennis. Wi-Fi.
About 3,000 dram per person. Housing: one room flat 15,000 dram, two room flat 20,000 dram
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Haghartsin restaurant-hotel-bar complex
It's a pleasant and quiet place near the road from Yerevan to Ijevan with large car parking. It's possible to taste national cuisine in a modern restaurant hall or cozy gazebos among trees.
round-the-clockUS$10-20
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Haleb Restaurant
Syrian-Armenian cuisine, friendly staff. Restaurant consists of a detached private houses-cabins. Good reviews.
10:00–00:00
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Kchuch
Fantastic Armenian cuisine for a great price. Almost everything is slow cooked in ceramic kchuch in a traditional way.
US$8
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Restaurant Mimino
Quite cheap restaurant with exceptional Georgian cuisine. Big portions. Khingali dumplings are 2 or 3 to the US dollar... and they are not small. Decorated in a theme of old Soviet movie "Mimino". There is an outside take away grill place preparing bratwurst sausages.
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Shawerma
A modern shawerma fast-food joint, with rotisserie meat served in a pita or lavash sandwich. Cheap and fast food.
US$3
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Tufenkian Restaurant
Haykanoush Restaurant
Restaurant with rustic modern Tufenkian furniture and upscale Armenian menus and prices. Although it looks fancy, the food isn't particularly good. There is also a traditional bakery on the first floor of the restaurant facing the promenade street; however, it seems to work only during high tourist season (i.e. summer months).
Mains from 2,000 dram
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Kessab Restaurant
Western Armenian/mid-eastern food. Good view.

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Dilijan (CC BY-SA 4.0).