We decided to take a detour to Shinok because we wanted to take the piss out of it. This, we heard, was a “fake” farm restaurant where you could pet animals. Not clear enough? … While it’s not extraordinary that Russians do love theming their restaurant, they – the restaurateurs behind Cafe Pushkin and Turandot …
While my trust in San Pellegrino’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants has recently wavered, it would still be out of my character that when in Moscow I would miss out on Anatoly Komm’s Varvary which, according to that list, is ranked no.48 and the only restaurant from Russia to make it in the 50 cut. Guess …
Mari Vanna is a house restaurant. Sounds unique and enticing? .. But there is a catch. Mari Vanna is also a successful, ever-growing restaurant empire. There is one in Moscow, two others in St Petersburg and New York, and, well, another one will soon be opened in London (Knightsbridge precisely and walkable from Dinner by …
Not very often that I was greeted on arrival at a restaurant by a squeamishly bellowing noise of what-I-hoped-an-animal-not-human-being. A chicken to be martyred for my culinary quest perhaps? A walk through a summer garden of this multi-terrain restaurant Uzbekistan by Arkady Novikov helped demystify the origin of the noise.. ..no fat duck, no obese …
Walking past that grand Italian marbled courtyard and brushing my lowly fingers against the towering Poseidon.. Greeted by waiters in Mozartian wig and costume befitting the household of Louis XVI (before peasants stormed his Verseilles of course). I have heard if I popped in for dinner I could expect to be serenaded by a troops …
Two so-so meals at Cafe Pushkin could already have shattered my expectation of the Pushkin’s and we could have given Confectionery Pushkin (just next door to the restaurant a miss). NOPE. This did not happen. I had Pushkin cakes half a year back in Paris, at a small Cafe Pouchkine – very annoyingly Francocentric spelling …