In Crimea — Gastronomic quest through restaurants with New Year’s sets

The Ministry of Tourism of Crimea, as part of the “New Year in Crimea feels like home” campaign, invites guests and residents of the peninsula to take part in a Gastronomic Quest and win a vacation package. More than 30 restaurants from Kerch, Sudak, Feodosia, Yevpatoria, Simferopol, Yalta and Alushta have prepared special New Year’s sets with a Crimean character for the holidays. You can take part in the quest on the way to Crimea — the restaurant car of the Tavria train 027/028 Simferopol-Moscow-Simferopol offered its version of the set. All restaurants with menu descriptions are posted on the project website in a special section “New Year in Crimea. Tasty, just like home» https://ng2026.travelcrimea.com/gastro_quest Each set menu includes two dishes with Crimean products and a drink.

Participants of the quest can not only enjoy the New Year’s taste of Crimea, but also receive guaranteed gifts at the Tourist Information Center at the Simferopol railway station — Crimean cosmetics and tea. To do this, you need to post a post on social networks with #NGvKrimuKakDoma with a photo of the dish and the name of the restaurant you visited. And send the link to the post to the telegram bot “New Year in Crimea is like home” (quest) @ngcrimea_quest_bot. And in January, among the quest participants there will be a drawing of a Certificate for a vacation for 5 days/4 nights for two from the 5* boutique hotel “Villa Elena” in Yalta. Detailed conditions of participation are on the website.

In addition, you can try to prepare New Year’s recipes from restaurateurs at home — they are all posted on the website in the “recipes” section, and watch the video of chefs preparing Black Sea kalkan (flounder), mini pasties with rapana, ravioli with Black Sea rapana and river trout, salad from Crimean rapana and ceviche from Black Sea mullet.

Telegram bot “New Year. Tasty, just like home» @ngcrimea_gastro_bot will help you create your own Crimean holiday menu. You can choose a recipe to suit your mood — from sparkling and playful to lyrical and frosty, the bot will offer a dish for every taste with an emphasis on Crimean culinary traditions.

We developed the 2026 New Year campaign with an emphasis on cuisine and hospitality traditions. This year, special attention is paid to the gastronomic features of Crimea. The restaurant quest takes guests on a journey of tastes that creates a unique experience while exploring the region. Crimean cuisine becomes a guide: the brighter the dishes, the more guests return for new discoveries. Gastronomic tourism in Crimea is one of the most popular destinations, so we decided to please guests and residents during the New Year holidays,” noted the Minister of Resorts and Tourism of Crimea Sergei Ganziy.

Let us remind you that on December 1, the Republic of Crimea launched the third season of the New Year information and advertising campaign “New Year in Crimea is like home!” This is a joint information campaign of the Crimean tourism industry, prepared by the Ministry of Resorts and Tourism of the Republic of Crimea. On the website of the special project on the Republican Tourist Portal of Crimea. https://ng2026.travelcrimea.com/ contains up-to-date information about all New Year’s events for family holidays in the region: programs of hotels and sanatoriums, promotions and special offers, residences of Father Frost, city Christmas trees and ice skating rinks, posters of theaters and museums, as well as options for winter holidays in Crimea and all the ways to comfortably get to the peninsula. The project is being implemented with information support from the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and the National Tourism Portal Travel.rf

source: press service of the Ministry of Resorts and Tourism of the Republic of Crimea