Cold Zakuski
Salat Tashkent$14.00
smoked beef tongue, green radish, egg, horsey sauce. kumquats. fried onions. buckwheat crackers
Baltic Sprat Buterbrodi$14.00
Rye toast topped with parsley mayo, hard boiled egg, tiny smoked fish, red wine pickled onions and herbs. *contains raw egg, meat or seafood. many dishes contain allergens even when not listed. consuming raw or undercooked meats, seafood or eggs may increase your risk of food-borne illness.
Beet Salat$12.00
tkemali-dressed beets, pickled golden beets, sumac spiced pumpkin seeds, tarragon, and kyrgyz dried apricots on top of a pumpkin seed puree.
Brindza Pashtet$8.00
Sheep cheese and paprika spread with grilled-to-order Uzbek flatbread.
Cod Liver Buterbrodi$15.00
The foie gras of the sea. served on borodinsky toast with carrot & druzhba cheese pashtet, pickled onions, and freshly shaved horseradish.
Herring Under a Fur Coat$14.00
7 layer dip, but Russian. And actually a salad: layers of salt cured herring dressed in sweet onion and dill, potatoes, carrots, beets, mayo, and hard-boiled eggs. *contains raw egg, meat or seafood. many dishes contain allergens even when not listed. consuming raw or undercooked meats, seafood or eggs may increase your risk of food-borne illness.
Meat & Cheese Board$28.00
Rotating selection of charcuterie, artisan cheeses, dried or preserved fruits, spicy house-made mustard, spiced nuts, and house baked bread.
Salat Olivier$14.00
the requisite russian salad kachka-fied with schmaltz mayo, poached chicken and crispy chicken skin garnish. no olivier, no party. know olivier, know party.
Lepyoshka$3.00
One Uzbek style grilled flatbread.
- Pieces$0.00
- Whole$0.00
Caviar & Roe
Wild Alaskan Salmon Roe$22.00
Comes with housemade smetana butter. sieved eggs. chives. house baked challah and blini. *contains raw egg, meat or seafood. Many dishes contain allergens even when not listed. consuming raw or undercooked meats, seafood or eggs may increase your risk of food-borne illness.
Kaluga Queen Amur Hybrid$72.00
Comes with housemade smetana butter. sieved eggs. chives. house baked challah and blini. *contains raw egg, meat or seafood. Many dishes contain allergens even when not listed. consuming raw or undercooked meats, seafood or eggs may increase your risk of food-borne illness.
Tsar Nicoulai Select White Sturgeon$81.00
Comes with housemade smetana butter. sieved eggs. chives. house baked challah and blini. *contains raw egg, meat or seafood. Many dishes contain allergens even when not listed. consuming raw or undercooked meats, seafood or eggs may increase your risk of food-borne illness.
Kaluga Queen Osetra$94.00
Comes with housemade smetana butter. sieved eggs. chives. house baked challah and blini. *contains raw egg, meat or seafood. Many dishes contain allergens even when not listed. consuming raw or undercooked meats, seafood or eggs may increase your risk of food-borne illness.
Selection of All$387.00
Comes with housemade smetana butter. sieved eggs. chives. house baked challah and blini. *contains raw egg, meat or seafood. Many dishes contain allergens even when not listed. consuming raw or undercooked meats, seafood or eggs may increase your risk of food-borne illness.
Dozen Blini$6.00
Hackleback$60.00
Comes with housemade smetana butter. sieved eggs. chives. house baked challah and blini. *contains raw egg, meat or seafood. Many dishes contain allergens even when not listed. consuming raw or undercooked meats, seafood or eggs may increase your risk of food-borne illness.
Hot Zakuski
Mushroom Barley Soup$12.00
an elegant interpretation of an eastern european classic. delicate mushroom-ceylon tea broth with sautéed maitake mushrooms, pickled shimeji mushrooms, and green garlic. finished with smetana.
Clam Chakapuli$15.00
steamed manila clams in a georgian-style sour plum and and tarragon sauce. grilled light rye ’cuz you’re gonna want something to sop up every last bit.
Dumplings
Siberian Pelmeni$17.00
beef, pork, veal, and onion. fines herbes.
- Fried$1.00
- Garlic$2.00
- Fancy$2.00
Tvorog Vareniki$16.00
chive, farmer’s cheese. garnished with scallions.
- Fried$1.00
- Garlic$2.00
- Fancy$2.00
Cherry Vareniki$16.00
a ukrainian specialty by way of local sour cherries.
- Fried$1.00
- Garlic$2.00
- Fancy$2.00
Side of Fancy Broth$2.00
broth contains pork, beef, and veal.
- Fried$1.00
- Garlic$2.00
- Fancy$2.00
Side of Garlic Broth$2.00
vegetarian garlic broth.
- Fried$1.00
- Garlic$2.00
- Fancy$2.00
Side of Smetana$1.00
House made sour cream.
- Fried$1.00
- Garlic$2.00
- Fancy$2.00
Mains
Rabbit in a Clay Pot$36.00
hindquarter braised in smetana. porcini, sour cherries, garlic. crispy draniki.
Golubtsi$25.00
mama luba’s sweet and sour, lamb and beef cabbage rolls. but also with pork, because everything is better with pork.
Tabaka$35.00
georgian brick chicken rubbed with svanuri salt and grilled over the mangal. served with fermented and grilled cabbage, potatoes, radicchio and red tkemali.
Steak Shashlik$30.00
skewered and grilled on the mangal. served alongside a cabbage, fennel, and snap pea slaw dressed with a sunflower seed and zante currant chili oil and a freshly grilled lepyoshka flatbread
Lepyoshka$3.00
One Uzbek style grilled flatbread.
- Pieces$0.00
- Whole$0.00
Meals
Dinner for Two$50.00
- Assorted Pickles Five house made pickles. - Bread and Butter Two house breads with smetana butter. - Seasonal Salad - Dumplings Chose between our siberian pelmeni with beef, pork and veal OR our tvorog vareniki with farmers cheese and scallion. - Golubtsi Our famous cabbage rolls stuffed with lamb, pork and beef. Braised in tomato and lingonberry sauce. Topped with smetana sour cream. **AVAILABLE FOR TAKE OUT ONLY**
- Siberian Pelmeni$0.00
- Tvorog Vareniki$0.00
Dinner for Four$100.00
- Assorted Pickles Five house made pickles. - Bread and Butter Two house breads with smetana butter. - Seasonal Salad - Dumplings Chose between our siberian pelmeni with beef, pork and veal OR our tvorog vareniki with farmers cheese and scallion. - Golubtsi Our famous cabbage rolls stuffed with lamb, pork and beef. Braised in tomato and lingonberry sauce. Topped with smetana sour cream. **AVAILABLE FOR TAKE OUT ONLY**
- Siberian Pelmeni$0.00
- Tvorog Vareniki$0.00
