Lara McCoy

Moscow 1 year ago

LavkaLavka Takes Russian Cuisine Back to the Future

LavkaLavka Takes Russian Cuisine Back to the Future

Moscow 1 year ago

When Andrei Zvyagintsev's award-winning film "Leviathan" came out, nearly every reviewer who wrote about the film took the opportunity to mention the way the movie depicted the bleakness of life in the ...

Moscow 1 year ago

Pyan Se — The Far Eastern Take on Korean Fast Food

Pyan Se — The Far Eastern Take on Korean Fast Food

Moscow 1 year ago

The hipster guys who run the counter at the Pyan-Se shop outside Mayakovskaya metro are used to being asked where the hookahs are — the tiny storefront shares a front door with ...

Moscow 1 year ago

Yoga Journal Celebrates Its First 10 Years in Russia

Yoga Journal Celebrates Its First 10 Years in Russia

Moscow 1 year ago

The day the Yeltsin family took to yoga and how it led to hundreds doing sun salutations on Red Square...

Moscow 1 year ago

Recipe: Fresh Rolls for a Cool Spring

Recipe: Fresh Rolls for a Cool Spring

Moscow 1 year ago

Vietnam is a relatively cheap, warm and therefore popular destination for Russians and Russia-based expats.

Moscow 1 year ago

Moscow Outpost of New York's Saxon + Parole Finds Sanctions an Impetus for Innovation

Moscow Outpost of New York's Saxon + Parole Finds Sanctions an Impetus for Innovation

Moscow 1 year ago

Nine months after Russia imposed a ban on food imports from most European countries and the United States, Brad Farmerie, executive chef at upscale eatery Saxon + Parole, has only a few ...

Moscow 1 year ago

Life in the Slow Lane at Obraz Zhizni

Life in the Slow Lane at Obraz Zhizni

Moscow 1 year ago

From the minute you walk in to Obraz Zhizni, you are struck by how different the place is from a typical Moscow restaurant. The yellow walls give the small cafe an overall ...

Moscow 1 year ago

5 Ways to Stretch Your Yoga Practice

5 Ways to Stretch Your Yoga Practice

Moscow 1 year ago

Yoga continues to increase in popularity in Moscow — the Russian version of Yoga Journal lists 268 studios in the city — and the growing number means not only a wider variety ...

Moscow 1 year ago

Georgian Meets Hipster at Khachapuri

Georgian Meets Hipster at Khachapuri

Moscow 1 year ago

On my first trip to Russia, in the late 1990s, a friend took me to a Georgian restaurant.

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