The comfort food trend is taking over Moscow businesses. Pizza, pasta, burgers and sushi are a win-win option in almost any restaurant. But if you want something extraordinary and truly exquisite one day, believe me, metropolitan institutions have something to offer. And now we are talking about bark beetle larvae and dry bees, not oysters or shrimps of incredible size. Yes, there is this. And yes, you can easily order from the waiter.
The Fashion Vibes columnist Anya Baturina tasted bees and larvae and learned where to go for frogs and fly agaric. And now she shares her impressions with you.
Anya Baturina, columnist for The Fashion Vibes, author of the Gastrology Telegram channel
dried bees
Where: Tap chef’s place and bar
Do not be afraid that the bees take first place in the name of the dessert, this does not mean that there is more to it than the ice cream itself (similar to their cosmetic composition). Chef Nikita Kuzmenko turns ordinary food into a real adventure. The ice cream for dessert is sweet, honey-floral with no sour taste to the alcohol, and topped with a handful of dry salt bees that crackle in your mouth. Nice revenge on all those bees that bit you when you were a kid.
Address: Sadovnicheskaya emb., 7
electric flower
Where: opinion
At the Landscape corner on the second floor of Usachevsky market, guests are given an electric flower to refresh their taste buds. It’s not on the menu, don’t even look, but you can politely ask the staff. This is a small yellow inflorescence that must be thoroughly chewed and spread in the mouth before the magic begins. At first, a slight tingling and numbness will be felt, taste bubbles will burst in the tongue, this feeling will intensify, and with it the sensitivity of the receptors will increase – even ordinary water will taste wonderful, not to mention a kind. sweet.
Address: st. Usacheva, 26 (Usachevsky market)
fly agaric powder
Where: “FOREST.”
Andrey Kolodyazhny – the chef of the restaurant “LES” – a true gastrobotanist, creates a kitchen of flowers and herbs, often going out into nature and collecting the same herbs. The restaurant has a lot of interesting “base” ingredients on its menu, but we loved the fly agaric powder on the pasta with porcini mushrooms and morelli. In general, they say that the red fly agaric is difficult to die from, and its poisonous qualities are overrated. It has its advantages: in alternative medicine, fly agaric is considered an antidepressant and even a powerful antibiotic, the main thing is not to get carried away with microdosing.
Address: Tverskoy Boulevard, 9
Meatballs with bear meat
Where: Ceberever
Bears in Russia, of course, do not walk on the streets, but sometimes they meet in restaurants. Ceberever’s has game meatballs on the menu, and if venison doesn’t sound all that exotic, bear meat drives the fantasy crazy. The taste of the meat is sweet and non-greasy – not for everyone, but definitely worth a try once.
Address: Pyatnitsky per., 4, building 1
Roll with frog meat
Where: “Cow Cow”
Frog meat is a teleport to exotic noisy Vietnam, not romantic France! Once in “Bik Kau” (an authentic restaurant in the Moscow settlements) you could even try soup with snakes, but for some reason it was canceled, only frogs remained in the “delicacy” section. However, there are a lot of them here in all forms – from dough to Cha La Lot Ek rolls in la lot leaves. If you manage to get through the sauces and seasonings and feel the flavor of the frog meat itself, you will definitely guess the tones of chicken, rabbit and something between lychee and rambutan inside.
Address: Koptevskaya street, 65A
Turtle Meat Soup
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Dynasty Soup
Where: “dynasty”
Tortoise meat is considered a delicacy in China. It is eaten by those who want to live as long as turtles – 100 years or more. Not a bad way to embrace someone’s superpower. You will never be able to come to the Dynasty restaurant, a delicious soup with dried scallops and Chinese dates must be ordered over the phone a few days in advance, so the desire to try turtle meat cannot be spontaneous.
Address: Volgogradsky hope, 47
bark beetle larvae
Where: Tap the chef’s location and stick, “Chapter Hero” set
Surprises were also included in the “Episode Hero” special set, which was created to draw attention to the materials that usually accompany familiar products. For example, wood mushroom garum is served with oak bark juice, slightly crunchy bark beetle larvae and sour cream cooked with Tibetan mushrooms and black garlic. This is a very unexpected neighborhood.
Address: Sadovnicheskaya emb., 7
calf thymus gland
Where: Tap the chef’s location and stick, “Chapter Hero” set
You can’t just get up from the table. All in the same set of “Hero of the Episode”, chef Nikita Kuzmenko uses another unusual delicacy – the rarest and most expensive offal – calf thymus. The sweet tender meat is served with brie cheese sauce, lacto-fermented grapes, and vegetable cream cheese mixed with straw. The main thing is to eat first and only then google what the thymus gland is and where it comes from.
Address: Sadovnicheskaya emb., 7
Jellyfish
Where: “Friendship”
In China, jellyfish began to be caught 1700 years ago, then special farms appeared, where these marine inhabitants, who were best served at the table, began to breed only certain species. It is very difficult to catch and cut them – in any incomprehensible situation, jellyfish will spread. In principle, this information is enough to continue the conversation with a clever look at a portion of jellyfish marinated with Beijing cabbage in the old Chinese restaurant “Friendship”. You are unlikely to need more information, we doubt that such a salad will ever go away – it is slippery and almost tasteless, like jelly, retaining the taste of marinade.
Address: Novoslobodskaya, 4, Trading House “Druzhba”
Source: People Talk
