Location: 4 Prechistenka Street, Moscow
Average bill: PPPP
Cuisine: American/Mexican, Italian/European
Tel.: +7 (495) 695-06-41, +7 (495) 695-06-43
Open: daily 8 am-midnight
The “meat mansion on Prechistenka” – that’s how the Voronezh restaurant is proudly called by its owners. And it is absolutely true. Voronezh occupies four levels of a vintage manor house: each level is decorated in a different style. The establishment serves premium marbled beef of the elite Aberdeen-Angus breed raised on a sustainable farm in the Voronezh region and individually selected by the restaurant’s specialists.
The ground floor area is a “snack bar” offering “premium fast food”: quick and reasonably priced burgers, sandwiches and pastrami from marbled beef, fish dishes and desserts. Just one look at the juicy pastrami sandwich is enough to make your mouth water. The brisket is first marinated in special brine for eight days and then smoked for twelve hours in chipped cherry wood. It comes on rye bread with honey-mustard dressing and thinly sliced pickles.
The restaurant has its own butcher shop selling beef tenderloin, steaks, home-style sausages, shashlik and even poultry for cooking at home. The shop is on the ground floor.
The three upper floors are occupied by the restaurant proper. Steaks reign supreme here: around 30 varieties to choose from. The ribeye steak – the juiciest, thickest, most satiating and “most marbled” cut of all – is especially popular.
Traditional Russian dishes are also available as, for example, borsch and Olivier salad. Try the ukha (fish soup) with home-distilled vodka. Ingredients include four types of northern fish (salmon, cod, sturgeon and muksun), celery root, onions, carrots, potatoes…and a small glass of vodka.