Cafe Sever-Metropol (St. Petersburg) is a network of the most famous confectioneries in the city and beyond. The very first establishments appeared in the middle of the XIX - beginning of XX centuries - on Nevsky Prospect. Traditions have survived to the present, multiplied according to the present, but all also delight local residents, as well as guests of the city with their delicious delicacies.
Now it is the favorite cafe-confectionery of St. Petersburg and tourists. After all, it is simply impossible to visit the northern capital of the Russian Federation and not to get a box of North cakes from a cafe-confectionery (St. Petersburg). As well as a cup of aromatic coffee and treat yourself to a cake in the cozy halls of the establishments, perfectly located throughout the city.
History
Each country and each city with special tenderness and trepidation tells its own story, especially if thanks to these memories especially pleasant moments pop up in memory.
For example, the history of the creation of the Metropol confectionery in St. Petersburg in 1847. After all, this glorious place on Sadovaya always attracted with its pleasant aromas of pastries, cakes, cookies and pastries.
The skill of confectioners, both in the old days and at the present time, is exclusively at the highest level. These are real creators and artists, technologists and sculptors in the production of the best confectionery.
About the confectionery "North" (St. Petersburg) on Nevsky was first mentioned in 1903. It was founded by the merchant Krymsenkov Fedor. It was at first a small production, provided to customers always fresh bakery products.
For a hundred-plus years, these major suppliers of sweets in the northern capital have undergone much. But they survived, matured, retained their main values: professionalism, quality, freshness of products. Since only natural, high-quality products can make good, high-quality baking.
A new round in the history of the confectionery
During the Second World War, the cafe-confectionery suspended its work, but already in 1946, with the advent of a new talented technologist of the food industry, a new round began in the history of the confectionery factory.
Tatarskaya Victoria Lvovna, a creative master technologist and a talented woman, brought in fresh strength and breathed new energy into production. It is her creations that are considered beloved by many to this day: cakes "North", "Lotus", "Nevskoye", cakes "Nord", "Aurora", "White Night", "Slavic", "Lunar" and others.
Under her strict guidance over 30 years of work and creativity in the confectionery-cafe "Sever" on Nevsky Prospekt (St. Petersburg), the assortment has grown tenfold, and the institution has gained even greater popularity.
Modernity
Currently, the network of confectioneries is characterized by an ever-increasing volume of production, expansion of workshop areas and an increase in the staff of employees (now the number reaches 700 people).
In 2007, the newly-built building was launched on the Vyborg side for the production shops for the Sever-Metropol confectionery. The equipment here is exclusively European - the best and fastest in terms of making pastries and sweets for a network of cafes and pastry shops.
And in 2014, the production passed a serious test and received a certificate of quality of the international standard, which once again confirms the leading position of production shops and cafe-confectioneries in the city.
Now this structure has 46 institutions throughout St. Petersburg, including the city of Kronstadt.
Addresses
The list of cafes "Sever" (St. Petersburg), addresses:

- Komsomol Street, 35 (area of the metro station "Ploshchad Lenina") - also delivers confectionery products in the city, except for the services of a coffee shop.
- Ulitsa Michurinskaya, 21 (area of the Gorkovskaya metro station) - cafe-pastry shop, original cuisine, delivery.
- 27 Voskova Street (area of the Gorkovskaya metro station) - lots of sweet pastries.
- 11 Grivtsova Lane (Spasskaya metro station area) - author's cuisine, sweets, drinks.
- Bolshaya Pushkarskaya, 42/16 (area of the metro station "Petrogradskaya") - cafe-confectionery, author's cuisine.
- Prospect Sredny V.O., 13 (area of the Vasileostrovskaya metro station) - confectionery, drinks, cuisine.
- Prospect Chkalovsky, 11/32 (area of the metro station "Chkalovskaya") - in addition to confectionery, culinary specialties, freshly baked bread is offered. Also food delivery.
- 44 Nevsky Prospect (Nevsky Prospect metro station area) - a pastry shop, culinary, coffee shop, delivery. The oldest cafe.
- Prospect Pyatiletok, 4 / building 1 (area of the metro station "Prospect Bolshevikov") - confectionery, drinks, original cuisine, delivery.
- Prospect Zanevsky, 9 (area of the metro station "Novocherkasskaya") - cafe-confectionery, author's cuisine.
- Petergofskoye Shosse, 3 / Building 2 (area of Prospect Veteranov metro station) - author's cuisine, confectionery, drinks.
- 11 Pribrezhnaya Street (Rybatskoye metro station area) - food delivery, pastries, sweets, drinks.
- Kirochnaya street, 13 (the area of the Chernyshevskaya metro station) - coffee-and-pastry shop, delivery, original cuisine.
- Prospect Mentors, 3 / Building 1 (area of the metro station "Prospect Bolshevikov") - a cozy atmosphere, delicious pastries, drinks, food delivery to your home, office.
- 62 Marshala Zakharova Street / Building 1 (Prospect Veteranov metro station area) - culinary, confectionery, food delivery;
- 78 Leninsky Prospekt / Building 1, Building A (area of Prospect Veteranov metro station).
- 12 Smolyachkova Street (Vyborgskaya metro station area) - sweets, bread, rolls, drinks, original cuisine, delivery.
- Politekhnicheskaya Ulitsa 31 (area of the Polytechnic metro station) - cafe-confectionery, culinary, delivery.
- Lenin Avenue, 28.
- Prospect Nauki, 12 (near the metro station "Academic").
- Utochkina street, 1 / building 1 (area of the Komendantsky prospekt metro station).
- Lane Svechnoy, 2 (the metro station "Vladimirskaya").
- Street Yaroslava Gasheka, 4 / building 1 (area of the metro station "Kupchino").
- Kirochnaya street, 28 (the area of the Chernyshevskaya metro station).
- Prospect Aircraft Designers, 2 (near the metro station "Commandant Prospect").
- Prospect Kolomyazhsky, 26 (the area of the metro station "Pionerskaya").
- Avenue Lermontovsky, 48 (the area of the Baltiyskaya metro station).
- 17 Novatorov Boulevard (area of the metro station "Leninsky Prospekt").
- Prospect Lunacharsky, 64 / building 7 (area of the metro station "Prospekt Enlightenment").
- Prospect Engels, 150 / building 1 (area of the metro station "Prospekt Enlightenment") and others.
Menu
Cafe Sever (St. Petersburg) uses only high-quality ingredients for the production of products. Flour, proteins, yolks, butter, cream, cocoa, berries and fruits are exclusively natural and only of the highest grade.
Also, the preparation of jams, jam - fillings for pies, rolls and other pastries is carried out only in the production department of the confectionery bakery.
Confectionery main courses
Cafe Sever (St. Petersburg) offers the following assortment of confectionery:
- Cakes (from the pastry chef, with cream, with natural cream, with whipped cream, original, with cream cheese, with curd cream and yogurt cream, with meringue, portioned, low-calorie and lean).
- Cakes (from the pastry chef, cake sets, cakes: "Belgian Chocolate", "Anna Pavlova", "North", "Bush", "Potato" and others).
- Pies and rolls (“Poppy”, “Yoghurt-peach pie”, “Strudel with apple and raisins”, “Strudel with cherries”, “Cheesecake”).
- Cupcakes ("Capital", "With dried fruits", "Apple and carrot").
- Cookies (from the pastry chef, cookies: “Sesame”, “Kurabye”, “Leningrad with condensed milk”, “Almond”, “Walnut with honey”, “Creamy”, “French” and others).
- Sweets (“Caramel truffle”, “Nuts in chocolate”, “Truffle with liquor”, marzipan candies and others).
- Desserts (“Count ruins”, “Tiramisu”, “Strawberries in cream”, “Blueberries in yogurt”, chocolate and others).
- Macaroni (almond cakes with: strawberries, coconut-apricot filling, mango-raspberry filling, chocolate, marzipan).
- Ice cream.
- Marmalade.
- Gingerbread cookies.
- Marshmallows.
There is also a product catalog from the Pastry Chef. Orders are accepted according to your sketches and personal wishes.
Cafe "North" on Nevsky (St. Petersburg)
The establishment is located within the walls of the Grand Palace Shopping Center, on 44 Nevsky Prospect.
This is a historical place where everything was just beginning for the cafe-confectionery “A. Andreev”, then “Nord” and then “North”.
Visitors (and here there are a lot of them, since the central part of the city, especially tourists) are offered an excellent sweet menu, as well as dishes of author's cuisine (perhaps ordering a business lunch), drinks.
From the sweet are: cakes, desserts, cookies, cakes, muffins, rolls, ice cream and more.
It is also possible to order a cake or loaf for a holiday or a big celebration (anniversary, wedding, corporate party). They are in a café-confectionery with various fillings and for every taste: meringue, butter cream, sour cream, boiled condensed milk, yogurt, cottage cheese.
Here the atmosphere is combined with delicious desserts and aromatic coffee. And in production - high skill, technology and love for their work on the part of confectioners.
The cafe "Sever" (St. Petersburg) is open every day from 7.00 to 23.00.
The average check of an institution (and the rest of the Sever-Metropol network) is up to 1000 rubles per person.
Reviews
As for the feedback from visitors and tourists of the Sever-Metropol café-confectionery, the main advantages noted are:
- cozy atmosphere;
- Friendly staff
- good service;
- delicious confectionery;
- great coffee;
- attracted by the fact that only high-quality products, real berries are used;
- excellent history of the cafe-confectionery and the scale of production;
- Nice prices for the city center and more.
Excursions for children
At present, it has become popular to organize various children's excursions: to bakeries, chocolate factories, confectionery shops, and so on.
And the Sever Café and Confectionery, namely production workshops, is no exception.
Here, at the entrance, children are given special sets of disposable polyethylene clothing (to comply with cleanliness standards in the workplace) and carried out sequentially to all the main workshops. Also, children become not only witnesses to confectionery secrets and magical moments that accompany the production process itself, but also direct participants (they help to decorate both).
And at the end of the event a sweet surprise awaits everyone!