Tony met up with Zamir and ate Astrakhan caviar, salted cucumber with honey, Baltic sprat with beetroot, muksun (white fish with maldon salt), and vodka (of course).

Tony and Zamir had a meal with Boris Nemtsov, one of the main critics of Putin, who served as an advisor under Yeltsin (he has since been assassinated in 2015, and this restaurant is now closed).

Tony met with Alexander Lebedev, businessman and owner of opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, at his home. They had fresh potato chips and Scottish salmon with cherry-tree sawdust.

Tony had drinks with Travis Link, manager of punk rock band Louna, and Rouben Kazariyan.

Tony and Zamir took the luxury Grand Express train from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Aboard the train, they had blini with caviar and cold pickled herring, and vodka.

Tony met with Xena Robrek, an openly gay artist and filmmaker, and Darya Tarasova, a local fixer and translator at this club to have drinks.

Bourdain ate: rye bread with Russian fish, pearl barley, and lightly smoked raw beef topped with quail egg Dinner dates: Sergey Shnurov and Matilda Shnurova, co-owners of Cococo, and Zamir Gotta

Former site of a fortress built to protect the city from marauding Swedes, it was taken over by Bolshevik rebels.