Казбек / Kazbek

Next to "Barrel" and "Shink" a new restaurant of authentic Georgian cuisine "Kazbek" opens. Restaurant-symbol, restaurant-image, restaurant-impression - in the best traditions of Maison Dellos. In the new project, Andrei Dellos collected all his youthful memories of numerous Georgian holidays. Many people tried to transport the sunny mood from Georgia, transplant the hospitality of their hospitable friends and acquaintances to the Moscow restaurant cornfield, generously watering its Rkatsiteli and Saperavi, repeat the unique taste of home cooking, convey at least partially the charm of the local noisy feasts. But any borrowing will never play out without context, and ideas that are pulled out of a different climate, culture and mentality lose all their flavor in the process of transportation. Solving these difficult issues was helped not so much by logistics as by imagery of thinking and creative approach.

As a result, an atmospheric Georgian apartment appeared on the site of Manona - a collective image of all those apartments that the future restaurateur had just been with as a child. A lot of daylight, skillfully aged walls, carved wooden shutters, textured floors, but the main thing is a huge, built-in luxurious buffet, a real wood-burning stove, in which khachapuri and bread are baked, and windows that go straight to the kitchen of the restaurant, where young manages all the processes The blue-eyed Tbilisi-based chef Mamia Jojua and her mother. As a child, Mamia helped her mother to patronize the kitchen of a family restaurant, and now the other way round, she is sous-chef, but tastes do not change completely due to the reshuffling of positions. Spinach pkhali is still pleasantly sharp, Mingrelian khachapuri has the right curd flavor of Imeretian cheese, lobio is served on the table in the company of ruddy corn bread mchadi and savory johnjoli home-style dressed with Kakhetian butter, to trout, which are fried on a griddle breaded flour and Svan salt, served as an unparalleled author's pomegranate sauce, garlic chicken chkmeruli really melts in your mouth, and matsoni dessert with cinnamon, walnut jam and nuts in honey does have a magic voystvom disappear from the clay pot in the blink of an eye. The magic came out.