My dad and I ate dinner here. The food is a pretty typical assortment of Polish and Russian…read moreinfluenced cuisines. We had barszcz with mushroom dumplings, which was too salty and dumplings were light on mushrooms, and the "ucha" fish soup, which was probably the best dish of the night. Nicely flavored, with excellent fish dumplings and a nice note of dill. Also too salty for our palates, but the provided sour cream cut the saltiness nicely.
For our second courses, we had the sturgeon poached in white wine and vegetables, and the elk shank with mushroom sauce. The sturgeon was a little overcooked, starting to trend towards mushy. And again, lots of salt. The elk shank was too dry, with the mushroom sauce doing a little bit to alleviate that. The sauce was too salty. For sides we had the kopytka, which were tasty, and the potatoes a la Pushkin, which were (you guessed it) too salty as well.
We split a bottle of the Georgian Saperavi that they had on their wine list, which wasn't bad. For dessert we had their tea with home-made preserves, which was excellent. The tea had a great, robust flavor and the cherry preserves accented that beautifully.
Service was good, if a little on the slow side.
