Mechta Molokhovets

Mechta Molokhovets Review

A refined restaurant with prerevolutionary flair, "Molokhovets' Dream" has a tantalizing menu based on a famous 19th-century cookbook A Gift to Young Housewives, by Yelena Molokhovets. Cooking is elaborate and highly traditional here, and you pay for it, with main courses starting at 1,250R. Try the venison fillet accompanied by baked pears filled with cranberries and soaked in chanterelle sauce, foie gras with hot saffron sauce and iced apples, or pike-perch soaked in a piquant sauce made with red caviar. The restaurant's solid waiters show reverence to the guests, serving them in a pleasantly ceremonial, but not at all artificial, manner. With only six tables, it's an intimate dining experience.