Vak balish

Tatarstan's contemporary cruising owes its renown to the great chef and cooking author Yunus Akhmetzyanov (1927 - 1984). His heritage has been recorded in books and passed on to other chefs. One of them, Ilgiz Shakirov, is with the fashionable Kazan restaurant Chirem, which translates as "young spring grass", and offers a choice of popular ethnic Tatar dishes in restaurant style.