Fodor's Expert Review Mari Vanna

London's sizable, well-heeled Russian community flocks to this maximalist evocation of a pre-Revolution babushka's living room, overflowing with vintage chandeliers, porcelain figurines, tapestries, and nested Russian dolls. The menu leans toward traditional old-country comfort food like Siberian pelmeni (dumplings) filled with pork and beef, pierogi, smoked salmon blinis, creamy beef Stroganoff with wild mushrooms, and, of course, borscht, finished off with a seven-layer honey cake. If you're dozing off from carb overload, a homemade chili-and-horseradish vodka shot will wake you right up. The waitstaff speak Russian and you may get better service if you can do the same.