Correspondent in Moscow
For lovers of good food, the time has come to update your software to include Moscow.
Of course, the capital of endless “herrings in a fur coat” (
siliotka pod chouboï
, prepared with beetroot), Olivier salad (mixed vegetables with mayonnaise) and other substantial
zakouskis
(starters) still suffers from stubborn prejudices.
The Soviet decades when gastronomy rhymed with scarcity cannot be erased with a stroke of a fork.
From this invigorating cuisine, our culinary memory has retained only a few essential dishes - blinis, pirojkis, borchtch soup, beef Stroganov and other salmon kulibiaks, not to mention the legendary caviar.
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What a surprise, then, to discover in a capital which sparkles with a thousand projectors after dark, a few addresses combining classic excellence and ultra-contemporary creativity.
This stardust sometimes has a little “bling bling” reflections - we are in Russia!
But the tinsel
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