Fashion for conceptual places has reached Kazakhstan. The city of Almaty was replenished with a unique place with a name referring to everyone beloved Soviet cinema - “Larisa Ivanovna I Want”.
This restaurant specializes in continental cuisine, which combines the best of Oriental, European, Asian and Caucasian traditions.
Three floors of entertainment
The restaurant occupies three floors: on the first is the restaurant itself, on the second there is a lounge area and a bar, and on the third floor there is a summer terrace. There are rooms for smokers and non-smokers.
Also, the restaurant “Larisa Ivanovna Want” has a parking lot for cars. The institution also has a dance floor and VIP rooms.
On weekdays and Sundays, the restaurant is open from noon to one in the morning, but on Fridays and Saturdays, the time of stay in the restaurant is extended to two at night, which is associated with holding interactive parties accompanied by DJ sets.
On weekdays, the music in the restaurant sounds quiet, so it will not interfere with conversations. In the selection of musical compositions during the day, preference is given to light folklore compositions, and in the evenings dynamic dance melodies sound.
Polyglot Waiters
Given the orientation of the institution to the reception of tourists, and not just residents of the city, the waiters at the institution “Larisa Ivanovna Want” speak three languages, including English and Russian, in addition to their native Kazakh.
The restaurant often hosts various events, and even concerts. For customers discounts and various promotions. For example, a week of business lunches, where every weekday is dedicated to a certain cuisine: European, Eastern, Russian, Asian or Caucasian. The accumulation system also works, when every tenth business lunch can be received as a gift.
Restaurant address and menu card
The institution “Larisa Ivanovna Want” is a restaurant (Almaty), whose address is Zhambyl Street, 77, the city center. There are many business centers around, and therefore the lunch service is incredibly popular.
The menu card in the restaurant is decorated in Russian and English, with photographs of dishes that decorate the menu and demonstrate especially popular positions.
Such a place as “Larisa Ivanovna Want” (restaurant, Almaty), the menu presents a mixed. Despite the fact that here are collected dishes of cuisines of different nations, it is not divided according to this principle. This means that in the column of salads you can find salads from oriental cuisine, Italian or Georgian. For example, it serves salad with Imereti cheese and tomatoes, salad with horse meat and meat sauce, Italian with feta cheese and beets, salad with arugula and tiger shrimps, olivier and herring under a fur coat. All salads are estimated within 900-2000 tg.
National dishes of different nations
Next on the menu are cold snacks, which include the best dishes of continental cuisine: jellied meat, phali, pickles and assorted cheeses, meat, fish, eggplant rolls and much more in the price range from 900 to 3000 tg.
From hot snacks you can try Belarusian pancakes and French julienne, Japanese rolls and Middle Eastern dolma, all at affordable prices and very tasty.
In addition, a good selection of soups is available, which also apply to different cuisines of the Eurasian continent: borsch, bozbash, kharcho, miso soup, khash, solyanka.
Hot main dishes are presented by such hits of continental cuisine as Ferghana pilaf, dumplings with potatoes, rack of lamb, veal dumplings, Sichuan chicken, beef stroganoff, Tashkent pilaf , chakhokhbili, chashululy and others. The price for hot items varies from 990 to 3300 tg depending on the chosen dish.
The menu has many positions of dishes on the grill and grill. The famous striploin - veal steak - here you can order for 3250 tg, lamb steak will cost you 2650 tg, and trout on the grill will cost 2750 tg. Any kind of meat, fish, poultry here is prepared on the grill and / or grill according to special recipes, with various sauces and side dishes. The institution “Larisa Ivanovna Want” even serves horse meat, which is not surprising, given the location of the restaurant in such a place as the city of Almaty.
Signature dessert
The menu has a large selection of pasta, noodles and pastries. For example, a well-known carbonara pasta recipe will cost you 1750 tenge, and pasta bolognese only 1350 tenge. From noodles there is udon and ramen. The pastries are represented by khachapuri, samsa, pita bread and pasties with different fillings, both vegetarian and meat.
The following pages on the menu are side dishes, rolls, sauces and desserts. All of them are diverse and have great tastes. In the dessert menu there is a restaurant specialty - pancakes for 1350 tg, as well as another signature dessert, which is a surprise for customers, since the menu does not indicate what it consists of.
In addition, the menu of such an institution as the restaurant “Larisa Ivanovna I Want” has a good selection of alcoholic drinks and cocktails. It has everything from beer to strong alcohol.
Reviews and opinions of visitors
About such an institution as the restaurant “Larisa Ivanovna I Want” there are many reviews on Facebook, where the restaurant has an account, and on specialized sites on the Internet.
Many visitors note that the service is pretty good, despite the fact that the staff often changes, not staying in the institution for a long time, but this can be explained by the human factor. In any case, the restaurant “Larisa Ivanovna Want” is a well-known place in Almaty where people come not only to eat, but also to dance.
Banquets, holidays, weddings and other celebrations are held here, the organization of which the restaurant visitors have no complaints. Dishes are delivered on time, the waiters are courteous, the choice of music for dancing is quite suitable, and the festive cake is beautiful and delicious.
Some guests of the restaurant note that the staff of the restaurant is very attentive to visitors, and the menu in the cafe “Larisa Ivanovna Want” is extensive and interesting.
Those who celebrated a bachelorette party here express their admiration for the VIP place with a view of the stage and the helpful waiter, who did not leave the guests unattended, but was always helpful, polite and friendly. The rolls, kebab and khinkali are very tasty here - national dishes of different countries, but cooked equally tasty.
Business lunch
The fact that the restaurant is open from noon allows you to come here for a business lunch. So many office employees from firms located nearby do so, and there are many such, because the restaurant is located in the city center. Business lunches here with a touch of national cuisines of the world - there are Georgian or Japanese, to whom you like. Everything is very tasty and not particularly expensive.
District of the city of Almaty, to which ul. Zhambyl, is the center of the city, there are many different restaurants, but the institution “Larisa Ivanovna Want” is very popular. You can find different opinions about him. Some complain that not everywhere in the restaurant there is air conditioning and it can be smoky, but many really like the entertainment program, parties and concerts.
Guests from other countries
Regular customers of the cafe “Larisa Ivanovna Want” bring guests from other countries, for example, from Japan. By the way, even the Japanese are very fond of Georgian cuisine, the dishes of which are prepared in this restaurant. Many people are happy with the responsibility with which they relate to the organization of celebrations, there was not a single case that something went wrong. Well, the staff of the institution carefully avoids force majeure and does everything to ensure that guests are satisfied with the holiday.
Some visitors call this place the best restaurant in the city. Due to its atmosphere, delicious cuisine, a varied menu, the ability to dance to live music, the restaurant “Larisa Ivanovna Want” confidently climbs to the top of folk love. The work of cooks is at an altitude; it’s not everywhere that one can meet such skill and ability, especially in cooking dishes from kitchens diametrically opposed in style. But both Japanese rolls and Georgian kebabs in the cafe “Larisa Ivanovna I want” at the highest level, and to taste, and the presentation, and the size of the portions.
You can come here with friends to a concert, you can sit in a family circle, bring foreign guests or come yourself to drink a cocktail at the bar. This institution will appeal to everyone who decides to visit it.