Delicious food. Polite staff. Beautiful nature. Special thanks to Ruzanna and Arthur for an unforgettable excursion to Lake Ritsa (where this cafe is located).
I do not recommend buying anything in this and all the surrounding establishments. If you are going on a jeep tour, take a stock of sandwiches and fruit and vegetables with you, do not risk your health, do not buy food at a cafe by the lake.
We were also on a jeep trip and stopped at this cafe. The waitress Marianne is ruining the establishment, at first she tried to fit us all at two tables, although there are plenty of empty tables, why should we huddle behind them with the whole car. Then, when asked about the menu, she constantly rolled her eyes and laughed that we didn't know what was included in their dinners and pickles. Let her drink a course of medications for nerves, or give her a vacation. What can I say about the food, we were full, but we had no choice. French fries - 10 sticks, and a boat instead of cheese with cottage cheese🥲 Shish kebab as if it was just pickled in all sauces of the world so that it did not smell rotten)
I liked it! Especially the Caucasian solyanka. The view from the cafe is awesome, you can immediately ride catamarans on the lake and enjoy all the delights of this place.
A good cafe, they cook quickly. We ordered grilled trout, very tasty. Prices are slightly cheaper than in cafes a little lower. Delicious tea with thyme, in general everything is fine!
The price tag is too high, they charge 10% for the service. I ordered pilaf, 1 piece of chicken, dry, but the most interesting thing is ahead. In the evening I felt sick and I returned the whole pilaf to the sewage system of Abkhazia, it has been very sick for the 3rd day, so think before ordering food there. And yes, the tables there were all covered in adhesive tape, it was not very pleasant to sit at them
We went there foolishly because we brought tourists there on a jumping trip, we thought if there are people, then they feed well.
Intestinal infection and 3 days with a temperature of 38 ...
Think 100 times before you go there.
We ordered shish kebab, it was strange, we thought marinade. They are very careful to mask the rotten stuff.
If there are a lot of people there, it does not mean that the food is fresh (
The owner is absolutely inadequate. It does not miss tourists who come down from the Malaya Ritsa. There is a short cut through the courtyard of the cafe. It scandalizes and scares away tourists who try to take a shortcut.
I'm not going to lie about the food, we haven't tried it, but if the entourage was interested, we would have eaten. Since the owner came out with prohibitions and threats, they did not go.
I do not recommend this institution for the lack of empathy and hospitality.
Go around the cafe so as not to spoil the mood.
There are pros and cons. In general, a good place with a local flavor. Delicious national food. It is prepared here on the fire. There is a lot of dust from the fire and smoke, the costs of ventilation are not thought out. Delicious, the price tag is moderate. Like it. The views of nature are wonderful. I recommend
It's a terrible place! I took a barbecue, ate half of it, because it was tasteless (and smelled very strange), as a result, terrible abdominal cramps, diarrhea, vomiting and fever began at night.
It is better to starve than to visit this place and then be treated!!
I 'll add my own barrel of tar , in hot pursuit .
We went on a jipping tour on the 4th and after an hour-long walk , roads and traffic jams on the way up to the lake , we were brought to eat at this stunning institution 🤦🏼♀️
It was already about six in the evening , three cars were driving , a total of 18 people.There was practically nothing left from the menu , everyone had to choose from what they had .
Separately, about my husband and me , we ordered immediately , before the arrival of most of the group .The order included a hodgepodge and a boat .As a result , everyone has already been taken out , the solyanka is over , there was no khachapuri at all , although no one warned .They just stupidly brought hashlama and some kind of flatbread with cheese, like as a compliment, their bread is still (such a small one ).
Of course , I didn 't want to make a scandal , they said okay , what should I do now .
Hashlama is an ordinary soup with hard beef ,flatbread with cottage cheese , a compliment not baked 🤷🏼♀️
About the others , everyone has very mixed feelings too .Shish kebab oak , kharcho about nothing and so on .
The menu is hairy and dirty, it is not pleasant to take it with your hands.
On the plus side , it 's colorful and the uncle brought a plate of tangerines 🍊
The bill for hashlama , bread and compote is 1000 rubles .
I do not recommend visiting .
Everything is very expensive. And the order does not match its value. I understand that there are a lot of tourists, but tasteless soup and a small stick of barbecue spoil the whole holiday. But the place is beautiful..
I didn't like it. We ordered kharcho and shish kebab. The grub is thin, and a small piece of meat got caught. Although the price is as per kg of meat. The kebab is dry, as if overcooked and weathered. I liked Khachapuri and drinks from the bottle. But it's sad.
Cafe Ritz
Yesterday we went to lunch, kharcho - tasteless, just added pepper and that's it, okay. A boat with egg and cheese - don't take it, it's not cheese, but semolina!!! Because this "cheese" does not stretch, it is like plasticine. Avoid the Ritz cafe, it is to the left of the bridge.
I am a defender of Abkhazia and always for it, but this is too much.
In July of the 24th year, we went on an excursion and ate at this cafe, there is no service. I didn't eat delicious ((The pilaf is overcooked, the shish kebab is dry, iceberg salad with Peking cabbage, a lot, but not tasty.
I don't recommend it
Incorrect behavior of the owners and staff. We wanted to drink a glass of juice from them, we were kicked out, only those who come to eat and leave more money are welcome. You can only walk through the landing to the common stairs with a scandal. After that, they also threatened. Very unpleasant!
The most exotic place on the western shore of Lake Ritsa. The prices are acceptable. The interior is decorated in a very unusual way, in the center there is a hearth on which meat, fish, cheeses are smoked, delicious national dishes are prepared, hunting trophies are inside the room along the perimeter. Homemade national and Caucasian cuisine. The staff is friendly and hospitable. The dishes are cooked to order quickly and very tasty. For those who visit the lake for the first time, I highly recommend it!
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alobanova
Level 14 Local Expert
September 30, 2024
Expensive, tasteless, lack of service and any kind of maintenance, for which, however, you need to pay 10%. There were no napkins on the tables, the table itself was sticky. We took lunch for an amateur horseman, pilaf – 2 pieces of chicken, khachapuri – frozen cheap cheese, kharcho – one onion with pepper and a teapot of tea for four for 700 rubles – tasteless and in dirty dishes. The guide brought us here, that's the only reason we had lunch here. The price of the dishes does not match their quality, paying for such "service" is simply absurd.
We arrived on the island of Ritsa by jeep to have a snack and admire the views, ordered khachapur, the price seems to be attractive 300 rubles. but we did not see anything similar to khachapuri except for the appearance and the yolk in the middle, they take 10 percent of the check and do not ask! I don't know what's delicious there, but it's better to take food with you than to eat here! The compote is delicious, only 2 stars for it.
The toilet is paid for 20 rubles. Everything is dirty, the toilet bowl is Genoa, all this is 30 centimeters from the main floor, and the doors in the booth from the lift have a gap of as much as 20 centimeters, if you really need to, I think you understand what convenience this creates (let everyone admire what you are doing)
In general, the lake is cool, nature is all business, the catamaran is 1000 rubles. half an hour, if you are late, pay extra, you will not sail further than the middle and back.
A bad review, but all you needed was a delicious meal!
For the first time in 5 days of my stay in Abkhazia, I faced inadequacy. And it is in this place. After going with the children along the ecotrope to Lake Malaya Ritsa, they decided to take a little "cut" through this institution. However, when the stairs were already close to us, an uncle of about 50 years old jumped out like a scalded man and began to turn around in an aggressive manner, saying if you go from the ecotrope, then go through again.
It is clear that he is very infuriated by the money that is useless for his wallet, well, you could say it much more calmly. Fortunately, we were not the first and obviously not the last.
In short, a number for behavior, good luck in business.
The food is disgusting. I ordered an ear, they brought a glass of broth and 20 grams of fish tail, that's the whole ear. It's better to be hungry than to visit this place!I do not recommend this place!
It's the least delicious food I've ever eaten. Prices as in restaurants - taste 0. I do not recommend it to anyone!
It's better to take food with you from home than to eat here!
Prices are 1.5 times higher than at the bottom, the toilet around the corner is paid even for visitors, 10% is added to the receipt and they do not ask, and everything is quite simple as in an ordinary street cafe, in Russia the same level of cafes along the trails- I do not exaggerate. It's just that when you went up the steep stairs, you think: did you go up in vain? And in the end, you stay there to have a snack. The quality of the dishes...What should I compare it with? Again, the question of price - if the soup cost 150 rubles, and the sour khachapur cost 100 rubles, then OK, as well as 450 and 350...
Ordered kharcho, delicious. Fried trout, so-so. Lemonades from mandarin and feihua for an amateur. The staff is so-so, at the same time there are graters in the team and it pours out on customers. Before that, in 2020, everything was much better. Now we are disappointed.
Beautiful view of the lake and mountains from the cafe. I didn't want to leave. The food in the cafe is not delicious. The price tag is too high. It's better to take food with you. Catamaran 500 rubles per person for half an hour. In my opinion, this is a rip-off. Last year it was 350 rubles per person. I gave 5 stars only for the magnificent nature.
We went to Lake Ritsa by jeeping, brought here to eat, said a very good cafe, after this cafe I vomited all night, it was not tasty and very expensive, I do not advise !!!, take a snack with you.
I'm writing about the Ritz cafe. All my life I thought that it was impossible to spoil crab salad, but alas, there was more mayonnaise than everything else put together, I'm silent about khachipur, for the first time I see that the whole egg was added to it, with the protein being raw. Caesar salad was just cabbage with a smear. But a mojito cocktail, my respect, tarragon with a slice of lemon and a piece of mint, did you not know what mahito is made of? In total, I described 1800 rubles of lunch to you for free
I do not advise eating in this cafe - the price tag is high, when ordering it turns out that half of the dishes will not be able to cook. As a result, a barbecue that cannot be chewed with a sauce of the type of diluted tomato juice, and the child had to take the cheapest sausage imaginable, compote in a plastic cup. At the same time, 10% is charged by default for maintenance, whether you want it or not (this is not indicated anywhere). And the prices are 2-3 times higher than in ordinary cafes. If I had known, I would have brought good food with me.
It's just a terrible place to have lunch!
The guide brought us here for a "delicious barbecue" - as a result, the food is simply indescribable how disgusting.. Shish kebab is just some kind of smoked, over-dried game that is impossible to eat - they fed everything to a local dog, khachapuri is something! Even if it is impossible to try to cook so tasteless, they also did not finish, in short, DO NOT EAT HERE!!! we gave 8k for lunch and the only delicious dish was not salted trout :))
The review is about the cafe "Cafe by the lake"
Delicious fresh fish (trout) for 350 rubles on the grill.
The staff is surprisingly friendly, because in Gagra it is a rarity.
They even found out right away if we liked everything and wished us a pleasant appetite.
I forgot my phone at the next table, special thanks to the woman who found it and gave it to me.
After a long journey to Acetuca on horses, namely 5 hours, we came to eat in this garbage pail. Everything looks clean and beautiful. And the food is a complete trash, it's just that chefs don't know how to cook, from the word at all… Not Khachapuri, but a bun with cheese, and it would be nice if the cheese was soft, so it's frozen, the bun looks like it was put on the table for a couple of days, and then they decided to warm it up for me and my girlfriend. On top of the egg, the protein did not grab at all, but on the contrary, everything collapsed, even the yolk. We also took vegetable salad and pork kebab, it came out at 1700 rubles, and although I am ready to charge them 1700 for checking my health and stomach.
Something like that ;)
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Ангелина П.
Level 9 Local Expert
July 19, 2023
This is the worst place I've ever had to eat. It's dirty, the toilet is a paid point. 10% for the service, but you have to go everywhere for your order to different points of the cafe, where you will also be bullied (if you clarify whether this is a strange place to get your food). And they won't take anything off your table, they'll leave everything as it is. We ordered trout, which might have been delicious, if not a slap of ketchup diluted with water and vinegar onions on top (serving as a very cheap barbecue in a doorway). They took khachapur - everything is cold, a raw egg and a piece of butter are floating, how could they manage to spoil it is unclear. And it turned out to be the most delicious dish. Next, we have something that is also impossible to spoil - a cutlet and rice. The cutlet is a semi-finished product fried to brown, and they managed to cook rice with a seasoning from rolton)))) If you want to spend 1000 rubles, and then receive as a gift problems with the digestive tract and a spoiled impression of visiting the lake - you are here.
It's just TRASH!!! The food is disgusting in appearance and taste. We arrived after 5 hours of hunger strike in the fresh air, so we did not immediately realize what they were feeding us here. The consequences manifested themselves in the coming hours in the form of diarrhea and vomiting in two out of three people. "Hunting meat" turns out to be such a slurry of tomatoes and peppers, in which you can sometimes find a piece of meat of unknown origin and cooking method. 450 rubles per serving. Pilaf is rice porridge even without meat. Adjarian khachapuri with egg (boat) in this institution is such a tasteless day before yesterday absolutely bland flatbread for 300 rubles, into which an egg was broken before serving. I finished off "tea from mountain herbs with honey" at 200 rubles per mug. A slightly brown liquid, tasteless and odorless, resembling a fivefold brewed tea bag. Without a single molecule of honey! The most disgusting thing is that the guide brings you here, knowing perfectly well all the delights of this institution.
We were on a tour of Abkhazia, and after a few hours, tired and hungry, we arrived at the Lake. Ritz was offered to eat in this cafe. I took kharcho, khachapuri and beer. Bottled beer was brought 10 minutes later, the glass was chipped. The kharcho was very mediocre, but you can eat it, and khachapuri is generally inedible (it sucks even hard to describe in words). The bill included service in the amount of 10%, I do not know how in Abkhazia, but in the Russian Federation, by law, the service is at the discretion of the guest. The bill was carried for 15 minutes, and in the end it was never brought, he went to the bar and paid.
I don't recommend it. Disgusting service. The food is mediocre (very mediocre), knowing this, people come here for beer/ wine and look at the lake. The waitresses don't like it and they don't forget to say about it - are you just having a drink? Aren't you going to eat? Are there so few of you? Well, then go to the bar yourself, buy everything, pay for it and you can sit down somewhere... that's about how you will be greeted in this cafe.
Don't come here. There's a great cafe above them, and the view is wonderful and the service is good - you'd better go there
In the reviews, all photos are from another cafe. It's not on the dock, hello.
The worst place in my life where I ate. They carried it for an hour, brought such a vile khachapuri, which was not even intentionally cooked so badly. AN ABOMINATION. The bill includes a 10% tip required. Like in Europe)))))) at the end, the waitress said, "I'm sorry if anything," although nothing was said out loud to her. In the evening, both burst from rotavirus, the whole hotel was fucked up. If your driver brought you here on an excursion, I am sincerely sorry.
The cafe has an average menu. They cook well on average. And the location is just a buzz. Sit down and look at such a beautiful view and at the very clean air.
It's very beautiful here. We were with a guide, they mostly impose visits to these cafes. The food is not ice. The staff is sluggish. Drinks in the assortment.
We ordered tangerine juice and khachapuri with egg and cheese, it was disgusting! Tangerine juice was probably made from rotten tangerines, khachapuri is not tasty. And the worst thing is the staff service, we waited 25 minutes for the bill!!! The last waitress I caught told us, "Why don't you remember who took your order?" And for this, another 10% of the obligation to the account. I don't recommend it.
Everything is delicious, appetizing, but our ill-mannered tourists are garbage activists, at least they watched their own and did not fuck up, in the lake.Ritsa, it is already necessary to clean up all the garbage lying at the bottom of the lake, so our assholes also help to clean up the purest lake of Transcaucasia! It's a shame, yes.
The service is terrible (and they add another 10% to the bill for it). The girl took the order, wrote everything down - it's unclear why, because every time she passed by our table with a tray of food and every time she started putting someone else's order on our table... The food was kind of edible (even if I think it's too expensive for its quality). But the worst part of this story is that my friend and I were poisoned together and now we feel just terrible. If you do not want to spend your vacation at the push, I strongly do not recommend this cafe.