CRUDO Steakhouse Abaya. PGR — Restaurant in Almaty

I went to the crudo steakhouse in Almaty on my last day visit in Kazakhstan and...unfortunately this will be my worst experience with food from the stay here for 9 days.

I wanted to try horsesteak and really hoped to have a feast but the steak was AWFUL (and believe me, I'm not a person who often complains if at all but this time I decided to write this review to warn people).

First of all I wanted a medium rare and I got totally rare which I'm not a big fan. But the worst thing was that it was completely cold (yes cold and not even barely warm). And the last but not least the quality of meat was very poor. I managed to eat most of it because I hate to waste food and didn't want to leave the restaurant hungry but it was really a torment and I left this restaurant very dissapoitent.

It's a pity it's my last food in Kazakhstan but will try to remember the previous experience (e.g home made food offered by family during my stay in Saty).

From the little positives in this restaurant is the asparagus cream soup which was really good and the sweet and beautiful waitress girl :) But she then disappeared so even that I could not enjoy (maybe she was embarrassed seeing me disappointed and fighting with this food). And the nice surprise at the end - a free drink which was also pretty good.

Now... for asparagus cream soup, horsesteak with potatoes, griled mushrooms and one beer I paid... 12000 tenge (almost 40 euro) and for that money I would expect somet💵hing really good and I regret I didn't spend it for something else.

I can recommend million things in Kazakhstan but for sure not...

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