Restaurant news with Anna Karmanova

In this week's news, we will talk about the Provencal cuisine festival at the Bouillabaisse restaurant, seasonal updates to the menu of the Giovedi and Piccolino restaurants, as well as bar offers from Caffeine and Roni.

The Bouillabaisse restaurant hosts a gastronomic festival dedicated to the cuisine of Provence. The restaurant's chef, Lilian Thierion, who, by the way, spent his childhood and studied culinary arts in Nice, created a special menu of 12 dishes. Visitors can start their lunch with French oysters (plateau - 1,890 rubles), salad with goat cheese and chestnut honey (950 rubles) and Provencal salad with tuna, anchovies and vegetables (405 rubles). Then we recommend the fish omelette with truffle oil (980 rubles) and the open-faced Pissaladiere pie with anchovies, boucho mussels and vegetables and herbs (280 rubles). On the menu we find two variations of pistou soup: classic with cuttlefish (330 rubles) and red with squid (530 rubles). In addition, for the first course you can take a rich burrida soup of monkfish and mussels boucho (1,590 rubles). The main course will be mullet Nicoise with vegetables and red tapenade (830 rubles). To complete your acquaintance with the cuisine of Provence, we offer citrus Saint-Tropez cake (690 rubles) or the Frangipane Provencal dessert with orange and almond cream (590 rubles). The festival menu also includes Provençal wines: white Chateau Minuty Blanc. Cotes de Provence 2010 (RUB 3,900 per bottle) and rosé Rose et Or. Chateau Minute. Cotes de Provence 2011 (RUB 4,780). The festival will last until May 30.

The Giovedi restaurant has opened a summer veranda, and summer dishes from chef Yulia Palchevskaya have appeared on the restaurant menu. For starters, you can take Parma ham with slices of melon, figs and limoncello sauce (590 rubles) and fresh salad with tomatoes, bell peppers, radishes and young beet leaves (450 rubles). For lunch at the height of a hot day, cold tomato soup (350 rubles) is suitable, and for a hot meal - pasta with sea bass, Taggiasca olives and zucchini (690 rubles) or pasta with seafood (820 rubles). Desserts include a warm pie with cherries, apricots and homemade ice cream (490 rubles), jelly from Tuscan red wine, currant liqueur with berry tartare (510 rubles) and limoncello canola with fruit chips (490 rubles).

The chef of the Piccolino restaurant, Alessio Ginni, presented a spring-summer menu with a Mediterranean accent. You should start with a spring salad with goose prosciutto and a proprietary sauce of balsamic vinegar and fruit mustard (550 rubles). An appetizer is octopus carpaccio with fresh salad (890 rubles), and after it you can try ravioli with shrimp (750 rubles) or spaghetti with scallops and truffle cream (590 rubles). Among the main courses, we recommend dorado fillet in arugula sauce with sun-dried tomatoes (990 rubles) or rib-eye steak choice (1,790 rubles), which is placed on the table in a hot frying pan, and the guest can bring the meat to the desired degree of frying. The meal is finished off with the dessert “Pannacotta with pear and blackberry sauce” (350 rubles).

Coffee shops "Kofein" have been offering a menu of summer drinks since the beginning of May. The menu includes items suitable for both adherents of a healthy lifestyle and caffeine lovers. Fresh juices are made from fresh fruits, vegetables and berries without added sugar; they are offered in a variety of combinations: apple-currant (red currant, 275 rubles for 330 ml), ginger-carrot (215 rubles for 240 ml), "Grapefruit" -kumquat" (275 rubles for 330 ml). You can try lychee lemonade (215 rubles for 330 ml, 410 rubles per liter), sea buckthorn lemonade (215 rubles for 330 ml, 410 rubles per liter) and raspberry smoothie (375 rubles for 330 ml). They also prepare cold fruit yoghurts based on homemade kefir with the addition of either lychee puree, mango and ginger, or coconut with lime (275 rubles per 330 ml). Among the coffee drinks on the menu we find “Iced latte” (230 rubles for 330 ml) and Thai coffee (with ice and condensed milk, 250 rubles for 330 ml).

The gastronomic pub Roni is also introducing a new menu with lemonades. Guests are offered to try combinations of tangerine and tarragon, passion fruit and grapefruit or tarragon with lychee. You can also choose a single flavor, for example, sea buckthorn, feijoa, raspberry, ginger. All lemonades cost 450 rubles. for 350 ml, ginger - 400 rub. for the same volume, and a liter of any lemonade will cost 990 rubles. In addition, any lemonade can be ordered as a hookah base for 1,800 rubles.

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