Moscow's Restaurants Debut New Summer Menus

By The Moscow Times

May 13, 2015

Numerous other Moscow restaurants are updating their menus for warmer weather with lighter offerings for their outdoor spaces.

Here are few highlights:

Italian restaurant Villa Pasta, which features a summer terrace opening onto the pedestrian part of Pyatnitskaya Street, has updated its menu to highlight spring and summer produce. The restaurant has two new salad offerings — one with strawberries, arugula and mozzarella and another, a variant on the Italian bread salad panzanella with pink tomatoes and eggplant. For dessert, try cold strawberry soup with vanilla ice cream.

Villa Pasta, 26 Pyatnitskaya Street. 495-953-1660. Metro Tretyakovskaya. villa-pasta.ru

The Projector restaurant and bar is updating its drink menu with more than just the traditional summer lemonades. Its menu features seven new cocktails — four with alcohol and three without. The "Yellow Sour" features sea buckthorn, lemon and vanilla with whiskey while the "Bellevue" adds raspberry liqueur to gin, mint and soda. The non-alcoholic "Passion" cocktail is a combination of hibiscus tea, nonfat kefir and passion fruit puree.

Projector. 2/5/4/ Slavyanskaya Ploshchad, bldg. 3. 495-788-0606. Metro Kitai-Gorod. projektor-rest.ru

Fish restaurant Rybny Bazar is adding some spring and summer flavors to its menu, with a summer salad of crab, asparagus and strawberries and an appetizer of tuna and salmon with orange pulp. Octopus carpaccio with spices and a seafood salad with pear and avocado are a couple of other interesting offerings.

Rybny Bazar. 10/2 Trekhprudny Pereulok. 495-650-5444. Metro Pushkinskaya. rbazar.ru

And, if you're looking for someplace to take the kids, the Lepyoshka chain of cafes launched a new menu on May 1 featuring dishes inspired by Moroccan and Turkish cuisine. New offerings include meat and seafood from the grill and a crispy version of its signature lepyoshka bread along with a whole set of spring and summer cocktails for just 95 rubles.

Lepyoshka. 29 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street. 495-665-0886. Metro Belorusskaya. lepeshka-cafe.ru

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