Carnival in Moscow restaurants

Capital restaurants decided not to stay away from Shrovetide revelry and offer to your visitors the amazing diversity of the menu.

Pancake week, as usual, left an imprint on the menu of most establishments, regardless of their status and direction. Pancakes appear next to the Georgian khinkali, Italian pasta and even spicy Chinese soup made from seafood. To miss such a famous and long-lasting "feast" it would be extremely disrespectful, and unprofitable from the capital's restaurants, so many of them, even the most exotic and expensive not stand aside and remind visitors that the days of the carnival relies eating more pancakes and often laugh - or to go after a whole year "sad and without money".

Another thing is that pancakes each institution prepared in accordance with these or other national traditions. Restaurant "Tan" for example, invites on Shrove Tuesday in the Chinese style with pancakes from vegetables and shrimp with sweet chili sauce. The chef of the restaurant "Pepperoni" offers pancake menu the Italian way: there are pancakes with ricotta and spinach, pancake style "lasagna" with a sauce of Parmesan cheese, or perhaps pancakes with lamb and Parma ham. His colleague from "Nedaleko East" invented to the Shrove Tuesday pancake cake with crab in Malaysian style, and for the dessert portion was responsible Japanese master Kobayashi, Kazuhiko: which offers visitors pancakes with honey and pancakes with vanilla ice cream and baked berries.Spanish restaurant El Parador feeds guests blennie bags with red caviar and "salmon-blinny the millefeuille with sparks of red caviar". And restaurants Georgian cuisine "Arba Hincalnaya" and "Genatsvale on the Arbat" decided not to depart from tradition: visitors are greeted, as usual, with Caucasian hospitality and ordinary Russian pancakes.

Most establishments also adhere to old Russian recipes: the most common menu items this week - "Pancakes with smoked samurai" ("Royal hunt", Bon2, and others) or just "Pancakes with salmon", "Pancakes with red or black caviar" and with sour cream, condensed milk or jam.On "grandma's recipes" oriented in the Kremlin and canteens. On the occasion of Maslenitsa, the menu of all plant food Control Department of the President included a variety of pancake "pickles": wheat, buckwheat, yeast, traditional Russian and European pancakes. The pancakes are served with traditional toppings: sour cream, butter, honey, jam.Many institutions - Tinkoff or, for example, Linderhof - treat all eating a serving of pancakes, a glass of vodka, "The Golitsyn" "each boyar, eating pancakes with caviar" pour a glass or hrenovuhi "the Spotykach" picturesquely described by Pushkin in "Lady-farmer". In addition to the celebrated Russian classics fortified tinctures, some restaurants classical Russian cuisine offer spectacular entertainment. The visitors "Godunov" will be eating pancakes songs folk folklore and "The Golitsyn" The carnival will conclude the festivities in nearby Bauman garden - to the music "swashbuckling accordionist" with the ritual burning of effigies, and with a live bear.

The restaurant "Red square, 1 D.″, located in the building of the Historical Museum, enjoying a picturesque location, the holiday was replaced by a special festive menu named "Historical carnival in Moscow tavern". 20.E. the menu promises a "pancake dinner" and 40.E. - same dinner with pancakes, snacks, namestnikom ( hot dish of thin pancakes) fried pike-perch and a pile of cedar. In contrast to the calls of individual restaurants to sit at the table "as many times as the dog's tail will wag" as bequeathed loved to walk ancestors, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church strongly recommend not to overdo it during the carnival festivities.

"It is important that the riot of the womb, which is visited by some people during the carnival, still not overshadowed would have clarity of mind and a serious attitude to life" said "Interfax" head of communications of the Department for external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate priest Mikhail Prokopenko.

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