VDNH cafés and restaurants add a bit of Antarctica to their menus

29 december 2020

The resident cafés and restaurants of Russia's No. 1 exhibition complex have put together special seasonal menus in preparation for the upcoming season of festivities. The keynote theme is 'Antarctic Winter at VDNH'. Establishments of different culinary styles and persuasions offer a plethora of new specialities to suit any taste and wallet. VDNH visitors should prepare to see some changes in desserts and beverages, as well as entrées. New additions on the menu include Icefish, Antarctic Explorer's Street Food burger, Iceberg dessert, Antarctic Explorer's Dream pie, Snowman ice-cream, Aurora Borealis tea and many more.

The cafés and restaurants at VDNH and Ostankino Park celebrate this season's keynote theme, the 200th anniversary of the discovery of the ultimate cold pole, Antarctica, by Russian explorers, with special additions to their menu. When you think Antarctica, you think of eternal winter and subzero cold.

Try some of these 'Antarctic' specialities, but remember to follow the safety precautions prescribed by the Federal Consumer Supervision Service. Visitors are expected to wear face masks and gloves and wash their hands with sanitiser when they enter a café or restaurant. Visitors' body temperature will be taken at the entrance. The premises are disinfected on a schedule. The tables are positioned to comply with the social distancing requirement of 1.5 metres.

Entrées

The Fishing Village restaurant has ample and delicious meat and seafood selections on offer. One is Icefish: sturgeon in aspic on a bed of milk jelly. Zander with celery, deep-fried in corn batter, is highly recommended. The dish is served with wheat chips and ranch sauce. Yet another seasonal novelty are beef medallions with cranberry sauce and juniper berries.

The seasonal offering at Café Vsyo Len includes Antarctic Explorer's Street Food burger with pollack fillet, shrimp and kaiso seaweed. The burger is served with potato boats and tartar sauce.

Invented by the chef of Café Pirogi, Antarctic Explorer's Dream is a designer pie stuffed with humpbacked salmon and potatoes.

Desserts

The Fishing Village restaurant has promised Iceberg, a mouthwatering meringue butter-cream dessert with sweet jelly crystals.

Café Pirogi has its own Iceberg, but this one is a delicate meringue with succulent prunes and almond petals.

Antarctic Snowman is the menu name for apple fritters offered by Café Vsyo Len.

For those with a hankering for some real Arctic cool, Snowman house ice-cream or Baskin Robbins hand-crafted Eskimo ice-cream pop, both on offer at VDNH's Ice-Cream Lab pavilion, may be just the thing.

Beverages

A Park of Crafts resident, Smart Coffee Lab has designed a new house latte christened VDNH Winter, made from full-bodied, vibrant espresso of Salvadoran beans and farm-fresh milk with touches of jasmine and bilberry. VDNH Winter latte is on offer at Pavilion No. 47 House of Crafts and the food court between Pavilions No. 66 Culture and No. 64 Optics.

The baristas at Café ROCIZO in the Books Pavilion have crafted an imposing array of speciality beverages, including the warm Antarctic Milkshake with plombière ice-cream, condensed milk and white chocolate, a sweet, creamy ginger Raf that makes you feel warm inside, Christmas Latte with orange peel and cinnamon, as well as Aurora Borealis tea with lingonberries, orange, honey, mint and cinnamon.

Jaybird Wedding has its own recipe for keeping visitors warm: the Antarctic Explorer's Morning house tea with cinnamon and cranberries.

Pyan-Se is the place to try Korean yuzu tea or other warming teas of sea buckthorn berries and lingonberries.

Vanilla Krutish offers alcohol-free mulled wine, sea buckthorn tea and an assortment of speciality drinks with currants, basil and mint.

Leo Coffee has savoury mulled wine, hot cocoa and other winter drinks on the menu, all made according to brand-new recipes.

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