Business Lunch

On one of Adam and my walks we came across this awesome little cafe. This is exactly the type of place that surprises me about Moscow. It would fit perfectly in the West Village or Marylebone, but here it is in Moscow.

It has every tea you could imagine, awesome coffee, amazing food and a really cute outdoor area. We decided to go there on our business lunch with Randy knowing he would love it!

Dressed up for our business lunch

To start, a delicious cucumber lemonade. The Russians have amazing cucumber so I guess this drink makes sense here. I wish I knew how to make this. It tastes like you’re drinking a refreshing cucumber! This may sound weird but trust me it’s delicious.

Russian produce that I’ve bought from the supermarket hasn’t been great. This place stated on the menu that they get their tomatoes from Ajerbaizan and they were definitely worth the trip! I LOVE tomatoes and would eat these all day every day if I could find them.

I ordered a Greek Salad, it was really delicious. One of my pet peeves is when ‘Greek salads’ have lettuce in then. No lettuce here.

Randy ordered a beef salad. We were both hesitant as to how this would turn out but it was delicious as well.

Adam ordered the mushed carrots and thought they were the most delicious of all.

We may have brought the carrots from home 🙂

And then because we’re in Russia we ordered some perogis. Guess what, they were delicious as well.

We will definitely be coming back here for more business lunches!

After lunch, we walked Randy back and decided to take another stab at the Chekhov museum. We paid the 100 ruble entrance fee and walked around. It was a house where Chekhov lived in from 1886-1890 that they had reconstructed to look like it had when Chekhov and his family lived there.

It was interesting to see but definitely no Ttetyakov museum. Ok, in all honesty I thought it was pretty boring. And I wasn’t allowed to bring Adam’s stroller in so I had to carry him throughout.

There was also an older Russian woman in every room who would hand me a plastic covered sheet of information upon entering. She would then order me to sit and watch me while I read every last word. That is seven sheets of two sided paper I read about Chekhovs house…while holding a baby…who is obsessed with plastic…and spent every second of my reading trying frantically to grab this plastic covered sheet.

But the best part of the museum was how every one of these woman fawned over Adam. One woman even played peek a boo behind a wall with him for a good ten minutes. It made the trip well worth it. Also I learned that Tolstoy paid Chekhov a visit st one point and there were pictures of these two literary giants together. To be a fly on the wall for that converation…

I bought a FOTO ticket but since I was holding Adam it made it impossible to take more than these two not so great pictures. Enjoy 🙂