Have a look and choose...

I never saw it in Czech restaurants so here it caught my attention straight away. When you go to an average Azeri restaurant (the more expensive ones do it the "european" way) you usually never get a menu. You simply know what can be offered and if they do not have it they will tell you some other options.

After you order your meal, they bring this big tray where you can find a plate with different cheeses, plate with "priroda" (my name for vegetables/ greens/ grasses that Azeri love to eat here, eg. dill, chive, parsley - kopr, pazitka, petrzel) and some tomatoe or cucumbers, plate with fruits, bowl with pre-made salads, bowl with dovga (while boiling kefir you add "priroda" and make a very refreshing drink/soup), roasted potatoe, plate with bread etc. And you get to look and pick and since you are hungry, you pick several plates from the tray to cool down the hunger (in my case you stuff yourself so much that you cannot eat the actual meal when they bring it).

I really like this way although it is, of course, an excellent marketing strategy, as one would not order anything when seing it on the menu but as soon as you see it in real, you have this urge to get it... my case :o).