Last weekend: when do you have time to try it at RRF in Moscow?

More than 800 restaurants from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok have created their own sets to introduce their guests to the art of gastronomy. This year, coffee and even buns fell into a separate category (but this is in St. Petersburg).

The Fashion Vibes columnist Anya Baturina talks about them in detail.

Anya Baturina, columnist for The Fashion Vibes, author of the Gastrology Telegram channel

While waiting for the set in the restaurant, be sure to read the chef’s story about the concept so that your dinner will make more sense, so you can understand “what the author wanted to say” (not how)
school – fantasies from a teacher in literature, but firsthand).

RUDI Italian bistro

set for 1690 rubles
Rudi turns Italian classics into gastronomic adventures with new school innovations. Therefore, in the RRF set you will not see simple pasta or classic pizza, the desire to try and adhere to the latest trends prevails: sardines (small salted fish are increasingly appearing on restaurant menus), scallops with oranges, orecchiette with young peas and asparagus and homemade ice cream.

Address: st. Novoslobodskaya 24A, building 2

lure me

set for 2490 rubles
Pavel Belyaev, the chef of the fish restaurant in the historical mansion in Patriky, invented a set that conveys the atmosphere of a Mediterranean resort (now it’s velvet season there). The menu includes the signature ceviche – dorado on a bed of black quinoa with spicy coconut milk sauce, halibut with sea urchin mousse, veal cheeks with a lazy potato face, and mint panna cotta with rum jelly for dessert.

Address: Malaya Bronnaya, 19

Chuanyu

sets for 1690 and 2490 rubles
Sichuan Cuisine Restaurant is ready to introduce you to authentic Sichuan and Chongqing cuisine. And the desire to do this is so strong that they created two sets at once. The first set is Chongqing Hogo (an important culinary tradition in China). The thing is that in the middle of the table a cauldron with constantly boiling broth is placed and raw materials are offered to it: marinated chicken hearts, beef and pork ribs, fresh lamb, shrimp, meat or fish patties, black tripe , various types of mushrooms, lotus root, greens, daikon, Chinese yam, seaweed, tofu, and glass noodles. You dip everything in the broth yourself and wait for it to cook. Hogo will also be served with crushed cucumber salad, iced bean jelly with fresh fruit and dried fruit for dessert. The second group is pure Sichuan cuisine: spinach with roasted peanuts or steamed eggplant with green peppers, rice chips with pork gravy, beef tenderloin with green Sichuan peppers and steamed rice, and fresh fruit for dessert.

Address: Michurinsky Prospekt, 7/1/2

FLOWER

set for 2490 rubles
Timofey Sulima, chef of a cozy restaurant on the arch in Chistye Prudy, made the festive set as seasonal as possible. They promise that the dishes will even move to the main menu (we love having this in the hits). There are three dishes in the set: pate on a beetroot marmalade and fig muffin, “ravioli” with porcini mushrooms and parmesan, and tart tatin with yoghurt ice cream on a pillow of creamy caramel, hazelnuts, and crispy waffle crumbs.

Address: Chistoprudny Boulevard, 23, building 2, Moscow

Gem

set for 2490 rubles
The restaurant’s chef, Andrey Valkov, prepared a gastronomic set for the festival with seasonal ingredients from the restaurant’s own farm in the Vladimir region. Sobolev-style caviar with potato waffles and smoked sour cream, farm duck with herbs and honeysuckle, sterlet on mushroom straw, and for dessert – liquid bird’s milk with pistachio ice cream.

Address: st. Khodynskaya 2

Sangre Fresco

set for 2490 rubles
Patrick’s Islands, a Mexican restaurant with endless boarding has also set it up, you’re lucky if you can at least sit at the bar to try it before the festival ends. Marco Antonio Ferreira is a divine dessert consisting of a set of crab with mashed avocado and three tostados, grilled chicken with corn mash and truffle juice, and three types of milk and airy biscuits – trileche.

Address: Ermolaevsky lane, 10/7

Spirit

set for 2490 rubles
The Soul restaurant, located on the first floor of the MOSS boutique hotel, also prepared its own set for the festival. Not only hotel guests can get acquainted with the restaurant’s cuisine, but with any person, and also feel like a traveler in his hometown. All dishes in the set are cooked on an open fire, which adds warmth and comfort. The festive menu included: cauliflower steak with coconut mousse, duck breast with baked pumpkin and apple cream puree with citrus-based sauce, and baked apples with blueberries and hazelnuts,
It is cooked with pudding and served with a light honey sauce and yogurt ice cream.
By the way, it’s great to go to the fireplace with a glass of wine from LUDING (festival partner) after set and think about the good stuff.

Address: MOSS Boutique Hotel, Krivokolenny pereulok, 10, building 4

Okhotka

set for 1690 rubles
A beachside restaurant with its own zero-waste philosophy and northern character relied on seasonality and locality, concept chef Andrey Balakhnov compiled his somewhat brutal set. It all starts with cooked ramiro peppers with vitello-tonato sauce, sensibly followed by cold soup with flounder and tomato juice, and a plate of salicornia (sea asparagus discovered by the project team during a trip to the Black Sea coast). Okhotsk). Then of course comes the fish – the scalloped halibut steak.
cauliflower, and for dessert – donuts with blueberry-coffee jam.

Address: st. Sretenka, 34/1 building 1

food

set for 1690 rubles
The Pan-Asian restaurant Chow Chow in Zabelina is a month old, joining RRF almost from the first days of its opening. Here, Southeast Asian dishes (mostly Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese) are gathered under one roof. The set menu included kochujang scallops with green salad, salmon in palm leaf, and pineapple and sweet peppers with lemon cream for dessert.

Address: Zabelina, 1A