Want to spend time in a cozy nest with huge panoramic windows and fresh pastries? Come to the restaurant "Dove".
Restaurant concept
In one building, a restaurant with a bar and a small cafeteria with cooking are combined. This is a Stalinist house, through the huge panoramic windows which offer stunning views of the Novodevichy Convent.
The peculiarity of the establishment is that there is always fresh pastries, which are prepared right there. The cuisine is varied and delicious at home. Thanks to the delivery service and the cafeteria, the restaurant can also be served at home for dinner.
The creators of this institution are three friends Shpigovsky Sergey, Pronin Sergey and Govorov Gleb, and not Andrei Nikolaevich Naumenkov. Restaurant "Dove" has nothing to do with it, at least no such information was found. The owners of the institution themselves work in a cafe, so it turned out so homely and welcoming.
Interior
"Dove" is a restaurant (Moscow), which is decorated in the eclectic trend now trendy. These are striped sofas, blue shades, graceful chandeliers, a copper ceiling and metlakh tiles, an image of the first cosmonaut who holds a dove in his hands. The interior is complemented by an exhibition of contemporary art, the exposition of which is periodically updated. All this creates an unusual, atmospheric space in which it is very comfortable to relax in the company of friends or family, and spend time alone, enjoying a cup of coffee and fresh pastries.
The atmosphere is complemented by a magnificent view of the Novodevichy Convent, which opens from huge panoramic windows. It is so beautiful that guests of the restaurant necessarily mention it in their reviews.
The second floor is great for large companies and special occasions.
Menu
The choice of dishes in the restaurant is extensive. The main menu includes several sections: breakfasts, salads, soups, snacks, pizza, noodles and pasta, fish and seafood, meat and poultry, side dishes, desserts and bread. In addition to dishes of European cuisine, there is also the most interesting of the Pan-Asian areas, as well as the Lenten menu.
For breakfast, besides traditional pancakes or oatmeal porridge, you can order Thai banana fritters or meat muffins with mascarpone and spinach.
All dishes are delicious with unusual ingredients and original recipes. Even the names sound incredibly appetizing: omul under a fur coat, a southern salad with fragrant herbs, pink tomatoes, homemade cheese and walnuts, smoked pumpkin cream soup with ginger and shrimp, veal sandwich in a crispy focaccia with parmesan cheese, veal tenderloin, baked veal in hay with thyme and herbs and soaked lingonberries.
Fans of fish also have plenty to choose from: tuna with grilled asparagus, warm eel with potato terrine. The selection of desserts is small, but each of them is a small work of art: semifredo with dried apricots, nuts and savoyards, sorbets, millefeuille with blueberry sauce on puff pastry.
In a word, the dishes are here for those who know a lot about refined and tasty food.
Beverages
The bar menu impresses with a huge selection of interesting non-alcoholic drinks, which you may not find so often. Restaurant "Dove" in this sense is pleasantly surprising. This is an unusual tea - tangerine, Moroccan, masala, and unusual coffee - creamy raff, hot mocha, masculine. Fans of these hot drinks will be very pleased. In addition, home-made fruit drinks, sea-buckthorn infusion, warming mulled wine.
The collection of alcoholic drinks is also good. Several beers, including craft and beer drinks. A fine wine list containing not only popular positions, but also less famous, but no less interesting. Huge selection of spirits. Fans of alcoholic cocktails will not be disappointed either. The classic Daiquiri, Cosmopolitan and Margarita, Mojito and B-52, the specialty Grove Dove with black tea, rum, cinnamon and almonds and much more.
Restaurant "Dove": prices
For an institution of this level, prices in a restaurant are considered affordable. However, judge for yourself.
Breakfast costs from 150 to 450 rubles. According to guest reviews, these are the best and cheapest breakfasts in Moscow. Salad from 350 rubles (eggplant with tomatoes and pistachios in oyster sauce) to 570 rubles for a seafood dish.
The first dish costs from 300 rubles for a cream of champignon soup with truffle to 480 rubles for a soup with lamb. Pizza: from 400 rubles for “Margarita” to 650 rubles for pizza with crab, shrimp and oyster mushrooms. A second course of fish costs from 400 to 700 rubles, of meat from 520 rubles per chicken to 1400 rubles per steak. Dessert - from 150 rubles for ice cream to 400 rubles for millefeuille or semifredo.
In general, the average check for one guest without alcohol is from 1000 to 1500 rubles. The average cost of an alcoholic cocktail from a bar card is 300-400 rubles.
Cafeteria Menu
In the cafeteria shop, which operates at the restaurant, you can buy wonderful dishes and fresh pastries at home. These are wonderful breakfasts: cottage cheese casserole, quiche pie with smoked salmon or chicken, scrambled eggs or spring rolls. You can also buy soups here, the specific form of the first dish depends on the day of the week. For example, borsch is cooked on Tuesdays, and green cabbage soup on Fridays.
Particular attention should be paid to pastries and desserts. Wonderful bread is baked here, not only from wheat flour, but also buckwheat, corn, Borodino. You can also buy delicious cakes, both bit by bit and whole, cookies, pizza not only with traditional toppings, but also with pears, for example.
A variety of main dishes and side dishes are an ideal way out in case you don’t have time to cook at all, and you don’t want to transfer your family to convenience foods. Roast, goulash, meatballs, lazy cabbage rolls and rolls - everything is home-cooked delicious, with a soul and quality products.
How to find a restaurant?
This place is located at Moscow, st. Bolshaya Pirogovskaya, 53/55. This is a corner house, which is located opposite the Novodevichy Convent. The nearest metro station is Sportivnaya. For guests with private cars there is an unguarded convenient parking on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya street.
The cafeteria at the restaurant is open daily from 8 to 23. The telephone for inquiries is 8-926-245-33-66. A nice gift for all visitors - after 21-00 you can get a 40% discount on the entire assortment of the cafeteria shop.
The restaurant "Dove" is open daily from 9 to 23. You can clarify the information by calling 8-926-245-42-44.
To try the restaurant’s specialties, it’s not even necessary to leave the house, you just need to use the services of a delivery service. Orders are accepted from 10 to 21, the amount should be at least 1000 rubles. You need to call 8-926-245-42-44.
To reserve a table or order a cake, you can use the convenient form on the restaurant's website.
Reviews about "Dove"
More than a hundred responses have already been left on the Tripadvisor website about this restaurant. The average score is four points out of a maximum of five.
Guests write that this is a favorite place, that there are wonderful breakfasts and a great view from the window, praise coffee, a cozy atmosphere and a friendly attitude from the staff, a pleasant unobtrusive interior, they definitely recommend taking places at the window. Very good reviews are left about the cafeteria, about the dishes that are sold there.
But there are guests who believe that the restaurant has only one advantage - its location, someone was disappointed with the dishes that were cooked “without sparks”.
In general, the restaurant is recommended to visit.