Naxış Nərgiz

Azerbaijan


One of the city's more eccentric beer gardens, Naxış Nərgiz features a dragon's mouth folly big enough to swallow a couple of drinkers. Decent food, too. It's around 700m northwest of the train station following the tracks, located behind a bland-looking wall that fails to give any hint of its quirkiness.


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