Café Pushkin, to have breakfast like a Tsar
1. YELISEYEVSKY GASTRONOM
Yeliseyevsky gastronom, at Tverskaya Ulitsa 14, is so exquisite that it is difficult to forget in a business like delicatessen stores, which is based precisely on distinction and the highest enjoyment. The place reaches levels of religious temple , it's something like The Sistine Chapel of gourmets , for its architectural opulence and reverential respect for its products. Huge ceilings decorated with frescoes of equivalent proportions and neo-baroque decoration define it in the aesthetic part. In this store we also find two constants of the city. One of them is the ambitious offer of products ( every brand of vodka imaginable shine on their shelves) and the fact that open 24 hours a day throughout the year.
It is so sybaritic that the establishment is more concerned with quality than with creating a homeland and the The best Iberian ham can also be found among the great stars of Russian cuisine . The point of eccentricity is given by the Fabergé eggs - that oval jewel created as decoration for the tsars - filled with vodka. Yeliseyevsky gastronom was born almost at the same time as the 20th century and respectfully occupied this historic 17th-century building until, during the Revolution, it was renamed Gatronom No 1 , but the citizens continued to use its original name, which refers to the businessman who founded the place. Probably only one other place overshadows him: his branch in St. Petersburg.
The best vodkas in Yeliseyevsky
2.**PUSHKIN COFFEE**
If the terrible joke is allowed, Cafe Pushkin is a very unorthodox experience . In fact, it is the definitive gastronomic and aesthetic experience as far as Moscow is concerned. Although it was only fifteen years after its opening -until then the only record of the place only appeared in the imagination of singers and poets-, anyone would say that centuries of history have passed around the spectacular bookstore that reigns in the place, full of junk from when man was absorbed in exploring every corner of the Earth. All its decoration plays to the confusion, that old apothecary that presides over another of its rooms is one of the most obvious samples.
But its perfect nineteenth-century recreation is not the only attraction of this restaurant. Its menu is a good map to trace the local gastronomy. From the Russian empanadas stuffed with salmon or mushrooms, the mythical blinchiki (pancakes that are usually eaten with caviar), their homemade jams or the beetroot soups called Borsch. It also has a takeaway service, but being in the city and not visiting Cafe Pushkin is clearly inexcusable. And it will not be for lack of time because their managers make it easy. Breakfast, menu of the day, dinner and what comes after are served , because part of its facilities are open 24 hours a day. To get there by public transport, it is best to stop at the metro stop Pushkinskaya Ploshchad.
The mythical blinchiki with caviar, a delight
3. DOROGOMILOVSKY MARKET
The most interesting thing about the Dorogomilovsky market is inside. Moving to the western edge of the city center, there are not many aesthetic attractions in your visit, but it is here that you can find the products with which stock up on some of Moscow's best-known chefs and where the VIPs go shopping with their escorts. The aromas of the different fresh foods, separated by zones, fight as you go through its different stores. Also the colors. The chromatic code that governs the place is curious.
The workers with white and blue striped shirts work at the fish stall, if they wear a white coat they are probably next to the fruit, those dressed in blue are in charge of the carts and those in red are very easy to find cutting up pieces of meat clean hack. Not everything is so prosaic. One can also recreate in the search for the most suitable caviar , who in this country know a little about it. They have all possible ranges. Little foreigner in its corridors. It is very likely that in many cases the price for the tourist is different from the local one.
Dorogomilovsk Market, the favorite of Russian chefs
Four. STALOBAYA Nº57
All roads lead to GUM , that very careful shopping center in the Red Square of the Russian capital. there it is Stalobaya No. 57 , a restaurant whose gourmet concept is based on tradition. Thought of as a cafeteria from the 1940s and 1950s of post-Stalin Russia, it offers a menu focused on traditional Soviet cuisine at affordable prices , comparing with the rest of the offer of the city. A nostalgic curiosity on the table to finish off this route through gastro-Moscow.
The quintessential Russian soup
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