Barev Arev — Restaurant in Yerevan

Had the 5 course tasting menu. Most of the dishes were decent/alright.

Ordered mushroom linguine for one of the course. It tasted bland to me, I think it was only seasoned with the cheese shavings without any salt and sauce was watery. The pasta was rather soft and showed the owner that the pasta was easily cut with a slight push from the fork but the response was that he doesn’t like his pasta al dente and he can’t check the cooking time for the pasta now. I was offered salt and more shavings of cheese.

I think for a fine dining restaurant at this price tag, the service recovery could have been better. If the pasta is usually well cooked, maybe it is better to inform the diner in advance and check if it needs to be adjusted to Al Dente which should be the norm for pasta.

Decor of the restaurant...

The experience was just WOW! Amazing food and service! Fine dining at its best! Very interesting dishes with unexpected flavors and combinations that taste amazingly good and make your tastebuds work and sing of excitement! Compliments to the chef for using mostly local ingredients and for wild imagination and creativity! I cannot say enough about duck tartare, smoked salmon bites, hand-made pasta with cilantro pesto and with wild mushrooms. Tarragon and Dijon mustard ice creams were my favorite deserts! Presentation of dishes was excellent! Service was amazing too. Great recommendation of wine, choice of the second complementary bottle was great too, but the most memorable was white semi-dry moscato that I could drink all day! This was Michelin star-level experience for a small fraction...

We chose this restaurant to experience Yerev for our first night in Armenia and WOW. As soon as we stepped into the place we were struck by the ambiance, the decor, the art and the respectful welcome. It’s like stepping into a different world. We chose the 5 course meal each with wine and none of us are usually comfortable in fancy restaurants but at this place you feel like you belong like at a friend’s place. The owner is a wonderful person, drinking wine with his guests, talking, joking and just overall making our experience unforgettable. We will come back to Armenia (from Sweden) only to go back to...