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| - Hubby and I were in the neighborhood, so it was time to finally try Russian cuisine... errr... food. This place is hard to find, since the writing on the door doesn't stand out from the picture behind it. Just go to the corner of the shopping center, where the overhang is, and look on the right wall for their door.
The interior decor is.. well... tacky. Cutouts adorn the walls, the tv was on AMC but muted, and there was modern Russian music playing from a radio somewhere. The booths have huge backs but they're otherwise quite open, and the color scheme is a mix of red and hot pink.
Our waitress was fine.. our sodas arrived and she got them wrong, but we didn't make an issue of it - $2.50 for a can of pop. If I paid $30 for a 12-pack, I'd be furious.. but apparently they have a bad restaurant buyer ;)
We started with Golubtsy, cabbage rolls stuffed with meat and spices, and those were good. You get 3, which is difficult to share between two people, but once again.. we made it work for us. We ordered the cucumber and tomato salads, which are actually large quantities of cold side dishes rather than actual salads. The cucumber salad was covered in dill and an oil that was rather off-tasting. It definitely helped when we added salt to it. The tomato salad was rather bland, more flavor came from the feta cheese than from the actual tomatoes, but I won't hold that one against them.
Hubby ordered Borsch, because he's always wanted to try it, and I sampled it also. He liked it a bit more than I did, same as with the Golubtsy, which is good because you get a huge bowl of the soup.
Our entrees arrived.. he had the pork Shashlik and I got the Chicken Kiev.. they forgot the sauce for his entree and we had to wait a while to get that, but the meat was tasty on its own. The Chicken Kiev, however, was... boring. Overbreaded, it was slicing into a rock (and they don't give you a serrated knife, which would be helpful - instead they warn you about possible burns from spurting hot butter). It was bland, with virtually no flavor whatsoever. The best part of the meal was the "fries" that came with it - julienne strips of potato with dill and an addictive oily sauce. Hubby tasted his mashed potatoes that came with his Shashlik and that was the only bite he ate of them.. but he kept stealing potatoes from my plate.
With tip, we paid about $85 for a meal for two that wasn't worth half that.
Overall description.. tacky, boring, bland.
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