The Lonely Planet Moscow guide starts with a “Top Five” list that rates a visit to the Sanduny Baths as Number One. I didn’t think a visit to a Russian banya sounded very appealing (the descriptions I’d read made it sound more fun if you’re a man), but Jon went and loved it. So here’s [...]
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Sanduny Baths, the banya in Moscow
Posted in Russia, Travel, tagged banya, BlogSherpa, Moscow, Russia, Sanduny Baths on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Moscow and St. Petersburg Restaurants
Posted in Russia, Travel, tagged BlogSherpa, Bocconcino, Cafe Idiot, Dioskuriya, Fisheria, Karavan, Kvartira 44, Moscow, Moscow restaurants, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg restaurants on May 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Just a quick(ish) wrap-up on the places we ate in Moscow and St. Petersburg a few weeks ago. Cafe Pushkin and Molokhovets Dream got their own posts because they’re expensive, “destination dining” types of places that get written up everywhere. And this post is where I’ll quickly summarize some of the other restos to give [...]
Molokhovets Dream, St. Petersburg
Posted in Russia, Travel, tagged BlogSherpa, Molokhovets Dream, mors, Russia, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg restaurants on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not learning our lesson at Cafe Pushkin about the questionable quality-to-price ratio of high-end Russian restaurants, Jon and I ate at Molokhovets Dream in St. Petersburg, too. We liked the description of the restaurant in this 2007 New York Times travel article. According to the NYT blurb, the place has six tables, good food, and [...]
Cafe Pushkin, Moscow
Posted in Russia, Travel, tagged BlogSherpa, Cafe Pushkin, Moscow, Moscow restaurants, pirozhki, Russia on May 15, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Many of the high-end Moscow restaurants that get current hype in English-language sources sounded unappealing to me, largely because they follow the trend right now in Moscow for “themed” restaurants. Shinok, for example, has live farm animals to enhance its peasant house theme, and Turandot seems to get press that focuses only on the $50 [...]
Russia: My Faves and Not-so-faves
Posted in Russia, Travel, tagged BlogSherpa, Moscow, Moscow restaurants, Russia, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg restaurants on May 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Jon and I have just returned to London. Our trip to Russia was fun and fascinating, but it was exhausting. I’m now thinking about out how best (i.e., at what level of detail) to share our adventures there. As a start, here’s my list of favorite and least-favorite parts of our trip: Five favorite things [...]
Zdrastvuite from Moscow
Posted in Russia, Travel, tagged Moscow, Petrovsky District, Russia, supermarkets in Moscow, Teverskaya on May 3, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Jon and I arrived in Moscow this evening to start our nine-day holiday in Russia. The weather is mild and sunny, and we’ve settled smoothly into our rented apartment near Tverskaya metro station (aka Pushkinskaya or Chekhovskaya). As you’d expect, every sign and map here uses the cyrillic alphabet, so lucky for us that we’ve [...]
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