We had vegetarian Borscht and their soup made with 25 different sausages. Flavor of the soups was fabulous, and the portion size was hearty. The piroshki I would recommend avoiding. The purchased puff pastry and unidentifiable meat paste it was stuffed with were just edible. We had the pelmeni and the cheese vareniki for the main course. They both ranked among the best I have ever tasted. We finished with a piece of cranberry cake, that we probably would have been better off without... it tasted like the inside of the refrigerator.
We stopped by the deli on the way out, where they sell their pelmeni and vereniki frozen, as well as many other difficult to find Russian foods... including chocolate cheese (which I've never seen in the U.S. before).
Ambience was a strange melding of elegance and greasy spoon... with what is obviously a weekend discothec in one corner.
Pros: Hearty portions, Convenient Locale, Empty for late lunch
Cons: , Traffic, Small parking lot
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