Mechta Molokhovets

Mechta Molokhovets Review

A refined restaurant with prerevolutionary flair, "Molokhovets' Dream" has a tantalizing menu based entirely on a famous 19th-century cookbook A Gift to Young Housewives by the Russian Mrs. Beaton, Yelena Molokhovets. Cooking is state-of-the-art here and you pay for it with entrées starting at a whopping 3,000R. Try 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 pleasant ceremonial, but not at all artificial, manner. With only six tables, it's an intimate dining experience.