Restaurant "Donna Margarita" is a place for eating, where the main highlight was the lack of interior.
Happiness in food
The institution, however, like the entire Apennine Peninsula, is filled with sunlight and beautiful greenery in the form of various plants. Design unity is simply absent here: no identical interior items and even cutlery and dishes. This is the true reflection of such a diverse and charming Italy.
The Donna Margarita restaurant intended its main hall for noisy fun. It differs from others in its spaciousness, thanks to its greenery it can be mistaken for a greenhouse, and the excellent work of the decorators of the institution gave it the appearance of a real and vibrant Italian market square.
Mama Miya, or a few words about the sunny kitchen
Today, one of the most popular can rightly be considered Italian cuisine. Characteristic features are the abundant use of natural products and aromatic seasonings. Despite the similarity of recipes, each region combines the ingredients in its own way, creating a unique taste of dishes.
It's no secret that pasta is considered the hallmark of Italian cuisine , and specialties from various types of pasta are always served with sauce and grated parmesan.
It is also typical for a sunny country to cook various dishes from the dough. These include lasagna made from several layers of pasta. Each layer is stuffed with meat or vegetables and be sure to soak in the most delicious Bechamel sauce, and the end of this culinary composition becomes grated cheese.
In addition, vegetables are a high value for passionate Italians, which they use not only in dishes, but also in raw form. And it’s impossible to imagine the cuisine of the Apennine peninsula without the usual rice dish with a lot of seasonings - risotto.
And, of course, not a single meal can do without a jug of good wine. Italians even allow their children to drink a couple of sips of a sparkling drink.
Interior
Everywhere you look, there is green everywhere: it is on the shelves and on the walls, under the ceiling and on the windowsills. Even the floor is made in the form of pavers, which creates the feeling that you didn’t come to a restaurant, but walk along the streets of the ancient city of the Apennine Peninsula.
The huge red counter in the hall represents a wide assortment of Italian sausages, olives, cheeses, crispy home-made pies.
The Donna Margarita restaurant has its own peculiarity and attraction - a large wood-burning stove, where they prepare a business card of Italy - crispy pizza.
The chamber hall will delight you with the presence of a fireplace, which will create a cozy home atmosphere for family celebrations.
For Italians, food is a great happiness, and a chef will help you learn and feel it.
Paolo Bocollini
Those who at least once visited this restaurant probably noticed that on the walls are children's photos of a brown-eyed boy with such a warm and sincere smile. And few people know that this boy has long grown up and became the chef of Donna Margarita.
Today, he is a 35-year-old handsome man with night-black hair, with a gleam in his eyes, on whose strong arms tattoos flaunt. Paolo Bocollini can rightly be called a true keeper and one of the creators of this purely Italian atmosphere reigning in the restaurant.
The boy, born in Marche and literally raised on dishes prepared by his grandmother, is a student of Maoro Ulassi (his restaurant was awarded 2 Michelin stars). He learned the Russian language at MSU courses, and he approached work in the kitchen with all seriousness. He is constantly in search of reliable suppliers and is hardly used to cooking dishes in large volumes. The chef enthusiastically began to teach his Russian colleagues the secrets of the real cuisine of the Apennine Peninsula, while not forgetting what dishes his beloved grandmother fed.
As Paolo himself says, his main goal is to feed every visitor. The Donna Margarita restaurant in Moscow does everything to make it feel like a member of a large and friendly Italian family.
Of course, the chef realizes that not a single sauce prepared by him is comparable to real homemade, because in the latter case you need to take only 3 tomatoes, and in the first - at least 30. After all, the laws of the kitchen can not be compared with arithmetic - the larger the quantity, the harder it is to maintain true taste.
Paolo Bocollini is fully aware of the prepared dishes and takes into account the fact that the ideal of home cooking in the restaurant is simply unattainable. Even so, thanks to his efforts, every dish prepared by true masters of their craft, who left the kitchen and ended up on the guest table, is eaten with great pleasure.
But is this not the main reward for the cook?
Haute cuisine at your desk
Food delivery has become an ideal solution for those who value every free minute of their life, choosing communication with family and close friends. The lightning growth of fast food outlets in large Russian cities, including Moscow, prompted the owners of public catering establishments to open food delivery services.
To order dishes today does not cause any problems - famous restaurants often have their own service, which is ready to delight you with culinary delights around the clock, wherever you are.
The dynamics of the rhythm of life has led to the fact that ordering food at home has become not only a convenient way to feed your family and treat yourself, but also a vital service for busy people who cannot afford such a time-consuming process as cooking.
Our restaurant was no exception. Delivery is carried out daily from 12:00 to 23:00. The minimum amount of your order should be 3000 rubles. Within 1.5 hours, the courier will bring your favorite dishes to anywhere in Moscow. A nice bonus: the delivery cost is 0 rubles, that is, it is absolutely free.
Address
Directions to the Donna Margarita restaurant (address: Moscow, ul. 1905, 2nd building 1): as soon as you exit the metro with the street name of the same name, go to the cafe called Kish Mish. Then cross the road and face the Sushi Japanese cuisine restaurant, turn left and walk to the Curtain Salon sign. You will see a zebra leading to the square. Go over it and turn right. Next you need to go through the entire square, and you will see the inscription "Sobinbank". The next building is the restaurant "Donna Margarita".
Schedule and additional services
Schedule: daily from 12:00 until the last client. Parking near the restaurant is paid on weekdays, and free on weekends. A special menu has been developed for children. The hall is designed for 190 people, and the veranda, operating from May to August - for 40 seats. Wi-Fi service is free for all guests of the establishment.
Recommendations from the "owner of the kitchen"
For many years, Paolo Boccolini successfully leads the work process in the holiest place of Donna Margarita - the kitchen. He inherited many recipes from his nonna (grandmother).
Paolo recommends that guests of the restaurant try a salad with sea bass, a typical Italian dish of scalopine with mushroom sauce, as well as enjoy a wide range of pizzas.
As for baking, it is impossible to leave the restaurant without tasting the apple and chocolate-cherry pies prepared according to the grandmother's recipe. Drooling from the names alone. And what else does Donna Margarita offer its visitors?
Menu
It is no secret that dishes prepared from seafood not only have a delicious taste, but are also rich in useful vitamins and substances. On the counter you can choose the seafood you are interested in, and the cooks will try to cook the dishes according to your desire.
Restaurant "Donna Margarita" (for 1905) has a seasonal menu. In the summer, the establishment pleases with a variety of different tastes. Pay special attention to the chicken leg dish Alla Devil costing 750 rubles. Incredibly mouth-watering pennoni with shrimp, botarga and crab were also recognized by guests of the institution. According to the staff, the chef Donna Margirata personally brings pasta from Italy to prepare this dish.
The restaurant's specialties are pizza stuffed with asparagus and Parma ham sprinkled with scortor cheese for 1250 rubles and shrimp carpaccio with orange sauce at a cost of 1118 rubles.
For dessert, you can treat yourself to a fruit smoothie made from strawberries and mangoes (330 rubles) or "Saboyon" - a delicate cake decorated with berries.
Italy for the little ones
On February 21 of this year, the Italian restaurant Donna Margarita opened the doors to its culinary school for young gourmets. Every Saturday, little students revealed the secrets of cooking pasta, pizza and various types of cookies according to the company’s chef Paolo Boccolini’s signature recipes. The breaks between cooking were no less interesting. Children drew, read and played educational games.
About 50 children, led by the handsome chef Paolo Bocollini and his assistants, learn to roll the dough correctly at a long table. It is with genuine pleasure that they sprinkle themselves and their new friends with flour, and in Italian make it like a flock of chicks, splashing out positive emotions and thereby charging adult restaurant guests.
On Sundays, the young chefs restaurant "Donna Margarita" talked about the sights of Italy and everything that is connected with this sunny country.
And the last weekend of the month for many Muscovites and guests of the capital was an excellent occasion to look into the restaurant's kitchen to make a whole, crisp Italian pizza with the whole family.
What do guests think about the establishment?
Donna Margarita is far from the only Italian restaurant in Moscow. In some magical way, the institution was able to create the right aura around itself in the form of a cozy and such "Italian" atmosphere, which, like a magnet, attracts its guests. There is nothing unusual in the interior, but what attracts people to visit the institution "Donna Margarita"? Reviews of people say that it is not the restaurant’s design that attracts you , but the atmosphere for which you want to give up everything. A wide range of menus, lovely waitresses and, of course, the unsurpassed and such "home" Italian cuisine.
Summing up, I would like to add that if you are used to visiting establishments where every square meter is saturated with sophistication and elite, then the interior of Donna Margarita will not surprise you. And traditional Italian dishes and desserts cooked with soul and love, believe me, nobody was left indifferent.
And, as they say in Italy, Bon Appetit!