Main Wine

The story

Crafted with passion, served with love

The Far East's Most Ambitious Wine Restaurant

Main Wine occupies a listed architectural monument from the early twentieth century on Turgeneva Street in central Khabarovsk, and it uses every centimetre of that heritage building well. Three distinct formats share two floors: a main dining room, an intimate wine bar, and an open terrace — each with its own rhythm, all connected by a single conviction that great food and serious wine belong together in Russia's Far East.

The wine list is the spine of the project. With more than 350 labels, it earned the Russian Wine Awards' titles for Best Original Wine List and Best Regional Riesling Selection, and in 2025 it received the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence — recognition that places Main Wine in a small global company of restaurants whose cellars demonstrate genuine depth and curatorial intelligence. The restaurant participates in the German Wine Institute's international Riesling Weeks, run across thirteen countries, and holds a Palme d'Or distinction for best restaurant concept from the Leaders Club, the international association of restaurateurs founded in France in 1993.

European Cuisine Rooted in the Pacific

The kitchen is built around European technique applied to what the region does best. The menu opens with a raw bar stocked with live scallop, sea urchin, and several varieties of oyster, alongside pike caviar served with brioche and smoked butter, eel rillette with two types of roe, and tala — a traditional Far Eastern preparation of raw fish — made here with auha. More than three varieties of Far Eastern caviar appear across the menu, and all fish and seafood come from local waters.

Standout hot dishes include braised halibut with cauliflower cream and sea grapes, black cod with crushed potato and Taggiasca olives, a Kiev-style crab-and-nerka cutlet with wasabi potato, and venison beef stroganoff with mushrooms. Game appears again in a bison steak with truffle purée. The European cuisine here is neither museum piece nor fusion experiment — it is a confident, ingredient-led cooking style that happens to be practised closer to Japan than to Paris.

Atmosphere and Detail

The tableware is handmade to the restaurant's own designs by ceramicists in Saint Petersburg. Glassware comes from French house Sydonios, Austrian Zalto, and German crystal maker Nachtmann — choices that signal how seriously the team takes the act of drinking. The team describes itself as "modern, cultured innovators, hedonists and wine lovers — smart conversationalists with a dry sense of humour," which is a fair summary of the atmosphere: knowledgeable without being stiff.

For guests who wish to bring rare bottles of personal significance, the management is open to discussing corkage arrangements privately — a telling detail about the kind of place this is. Main Wine has ranked fourth among the best restaurants of the Russian Far East in the WhereToEat guide for three consecutive years (2022–2024), making it the most consistently recognised fine dining address in the region.