Holiday memory — Solyanka that transported me back

I first ate Solyanka on a trip five years ago and have been searching for a version this good ever since. This restaurant finally delivered the hearty and warming quality I remembered. buckwheat was handled correctly — something most restaurants here get slightly wrong.

Russian New Year table is the most important annual food event, laden with Olivier salad, herring under fur coat, and other Soviet-era staples. It was the a dacha summer kitchen memory that I was really chasing and this recreated it. black tea from a samovar was offered and brought the whole experience together. Some dishes are attached to a time and place. This one finally restored that attachment.