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Cafe Pushkin

Cafe Pushkin
Cafe Pushkin
Country: Russia
City: Moscú
Address: Tsepckofi Fiyaenap 26-a
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(+7)4957390033
Closed: Always open
Price: 250/350 €


  • Hojaldres rellenos
  • Hojaldres rellenos
  • Anguila ahumada con diferentes verduras
  • Anguila ahumada con diferentes verduras
  • Ensaladilla rusa con cangrejo
  • Ensaladilla rusa con cangrejo
  • Sopa de oveja y col
  • Sopa de oveja y col
  • Plato de pollo
  • Plato de pollo
  • Crema helada con fresas
  • Crema helada con fresas

The fact that gastronomy is a reflection of the society from which it is born comes to no surprise. Appearance and dishonesty exceed both fiction and reality. We live in a circus filled with clowns… for whom millions of the misinformed, without a shred of criteria, laugh along. It suffices to take this restaurant as an example. It holds the position of 80th best restaurant in the world in the guide that each year prints the British magazine THE RESTAURANT. What nerve! If they decide what the 100 best restaurants in the world are, we are all in trouble. But that is what they have achieved. Bravo! Let them vocalize their insanity or dark obsessions with soaps, radio or tabloids. Such a dire state the press finds itself in these days! Now would be a good time to remember their morbid behavior during the so-called “war of the chefs”.
Café Pushkin is the 80th best restaurant in the world. Hilarious! Their dishes probably rank somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000. Or maybe even from 100,000 and beyond. The 1 millionth best restaurant, even. It is undeniable that this is the most fashionable locale in Moscow: that which the most thriving faction of the populous frequents to see and be seen. The ambience, however, exceeds even what you come to expect from Moscow: appearance, excesses… The framework is also majestic: noble, fresh wood that, though made only in the past ten years, gives a palatial impression. And of the food, what? Brasserie. French brasserie with Russian flavors.
The first dish, three nice puff pastries simply filled, one with horn of plenty mushrooms, another with chicken and a third with meat. Then comes a select smoked eel, fatty and meaty, accompanied by an infinity of vegetables that appear in enormous quantities at different times, some like sauerkraut, others pickled: cabbage, purple cabbage, cucumber, tomato, olives, lemon… and frozen mushrooms. The Russian salad, dense and undefined in its flavor, is sumptuously adorned with crown jewels: two slices of smoked duck, one crawfish tail and five balls of caviar. The fourth service was a substantial, rustic soup of sheep, cabbage, carrot… to be honest it was tasty, flavorful even, presented like the one Paul Bocuse dedicated to Valéry Giscard d’Estaing: pompously covered with puff pastry to preserve all its aromatic intensity. And as a finale, a dish with distinct compartments in honor of chicken: stuffed pasta with a ground chicken dough, the thigh being ground together with bread and reconstructed, cooked with its juices and cream, with mushrooms inside and a mushroom cream as a garnish. And the desserts, some strawberries with their juices and a pyramid of ice cream, all soaked and flambéed in the dining room. Always in generous portions, served at a dizzying pace. Come with your appetite… a voracious appetite.
In short, the least interesting thing here is the food, which is antiquated, back some 40 years, even if it is tasty. The best part: the locale, the service, the ambience, which is boisterous and jovial… and the check: 200 €, but with a glass of champagne, one of vodka and a bottle of Burgundy it easily goes up to 350 €, or more.
The 80th best restaurant in the world for The Restaurant. It suffices to take a look at their photos to see that this little magazine is acting very rashly.