Kchuch (Clay Pot) Restaurant
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Dilijan's best-known family restaurant, where every dish is cooked in a wood-fired brick oven. Signature items are clay-pot stews and brick-oven pizza.
Located at 6 Sayat-Nova Street in central Dilijan. The restaurant's name means 'clay pot' in Armenian. It is family run. Main dishes are baked in clay pots in a wood-fired brick oven, and it also serves brick-oven pizza and grilled dishes. Diners often order chicken with dried apricots, lamb stewed in beer and beef shank in tomato. For dessert, the peach puff pastry pie is recommended. Hillside gazebo seating gives the space a cosy feel. Tripadvisor has about 280 reviews and a 4.2 rating. The main complaint is slow service, with some diners waiting over an hour, and clay-pot dishes or pizza occasionally sell out. Prices are mid-range, with pizza cheaper than the clay-pot meat dishes. One diner reported at the end of 2025 that the Tava restaurant had moved to the same site and merged operations with it.
Opening hours
Daily 10:00–22:00
Nearby sights
- Dilijan Local Lore Museum and Art Gallery
- Dilijan
- Haghartsin Monastery
- Matosavank
- Jukhtakvank
- Lake Parz
- Goshavank Monastery
- Lake Gosh