In the beautiful, old Russian city of Yekaterinburg, a new restaurant "Barboris" has opened. Everything in this institution is at the highest level: the location (Yeltsin Center), and the impressive space, and the chic interior, and the kitchen, and the serving of dishes, as well as the service.
Meet the restaurant "Barboris" in Yekaterinburg.
A few words about the city
Also known as Sverdlovsk (1924-1991). The founding date of Yekaterinburg is November 1723, and the geographical location is the eastern slope of the Middle Urals.
It happened geographically and historically that the city is an important link between Asia and Europe in Russia.
Currently, Yekaterinburg is a city with a population of about 1.5 million people. Large cultural, administrative, educational, scientific center of the country.
And the city is known for its cultural and educational exhibition site, a museum of modern political history called the Yeltsin Center. The museum was created in 2015 by the non-profit foundation “The Presidential Center B.N. Yeltsin. "
It is on the ground floor of this establishment that the largest restaurant in Russia, Barboris, is located.
Description
In order to visit the restaurant, you must go down the stairs at the main entrance to the "Yeltsin Center". You can follow the signs.
The restaurant was opened by a Moscow restaurateur in 2017, February 1. The opening event for the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, is timed to coincide.
The area of the new restaurant is impressive in size and capacity is 280 people. The project and design involves the movement of walls and partitions, thereby transforming the appearance of space in a constructive way. And richly and tastefully decorated ceilings, walls and floors create a feeling of luxury and nobility in the institution. The furniture is also selected according to the level of the Barboris restaurant in Yekaterinburg - solid, leather, soft armchairs and sofas, massive wooden tables.
In addition to the main hall, there is a terrace with beautiful views of the city center.
The facility is intended for family holiday lunches or dinners, a romantic meal for a couple in love, a business lunch. And also in the restaurant solemn celebrations are held - weddings, anniversaries, corporate parties.
Interesting Facts
The institution has several interesting points:
- When choosing a name for a restaurant, a national contest was announced! And whatever proposals have been received: Putsch, Dear Russians, Voucher, and so on. But the proposal to name the restaurant “Barboris” won.
- There is a section in the restaurant’s menu that offers dishes from Naina Yeltsin. This is the traditional Yeltsin family cuisine.
- Thanks to the transforming walls, the restaurant can be asked to “construct” an office separate from the common room or a small room for the company.
About the restaurant kitchen
But the main highlight of the institution is, of course, the kitchen. The restaurant offers visitors traditional Russian dishes, somewhat “modernized”, as well as complemented by some dishes of Ukrainian and Belarusian cuisine.
The menu of the Barboris restaurant in Yekaterinburg was created by Andrei Bova, a creative chef from the capital. In his interpretation, every seemingly familiar dish acquires a hue of novelty thanks to its signature techniques and additives to the overall composition.
For example, the master serves pickled garlic and lard to a borsch that is familiar to many, and he prepares the broth exclusively on beef brisket with prunes. Also very tasty “updated” salads “Vinaigrette” and “Olivier”.
The institution has a bakery where wonderful buns, fragrant pies, bread are baked.
For meat and fish has its own smokehouse.
Vegetable pickles are also harvested on their own.
An interesting object of the restaurant "Barboris" in Yekaterinburg ("Yeltsin Center") is a huge stove, which is located in the center of the hall. Designed for baking meat dishes, first courses, as well as for cooking grilled food.
The restaurant team, headed by the chef, specially trained directly from the wife of the ex-president of Russia how to cook traditional family dumplings, salads, cabbage rolls, meatballs, pies and so on.
By the way, Naina Yeltsin was also present with her daughter at the opening of the Barboris restaurant in Yekaterinburg on February 1.
As for the main products for the establishment, direct suppliers from Russia supply them. These are mushroom, hunting, fruit and berry farms. As well as local farmers. Therefore, all the ingredients of the dishes are of the highest quality and freshness.
Menu and prices
Barboris Restaurant in Yekaterinburg offers dishes in the following categories:
- Appetizers (herring salmon with beetroot salad, potatoes and eggs; smoked mackerel; muksun stroganina with sauce; the most expensive dish from the appetizer series - smoked Sakhalin shrimp with sauces - 680 rubles per 260 grams of dish).
- Salads (vegetable, with seafood, veal, "Vinaigrette", "Olivier", "Mimosa").
- Pies (a large pie from the oven with different fillings; pies with fillings of potatoes and meat).
- First courses (borsch, fish soup, mushroom soup, cabbage soup, okroshka).
- Dumplings (with potato and onion filling, with cherry filling under sour cream).
- Dumplings (with kid meat).
- Grill (meat, fish, vegetables, barbecue).
- Meat and fish dishes cooked in the smokehouse.
- Hot dishes (duck with mushrooms and a side dish of buckwheat porridge; beef tongue with mushrooms; venison with mushroom risotto and more).
- Dishes from Naina Iosifovna (Tenderness salad, dumplings stuffed with pike meat, meat dumplings with sour cream, puff pastries with cream filling, stuffed cabbage with sour cream sauce, homemade meatballs with mashed potatoes, rice with vegetables).
- Desserts (cakes "Prague", "Kiev", "Napoleon", eclairs, roll, desserts with berries, ice cream).
- Wine list and other types of alcohol. Soft drinks: tea, coffee, soft drinks, juices, water.
The cheapest dish is white meat with beef (100 rubles), and the most expensive dish of the institution is Kamchatka crab (or rather claws) with sauce (3600 rubles). All dishes in the price range from 250 rubles.
The average restaurant bill is 1500-2500 rubles per person.
Reviews
Feedback from visitors to the institution is mostly positive. Highlights marked by guests:
- delicious cuisine;
- fast and quality service;
- reasonable prices for the city center;
- the best oven pies and salad "Olivier with veal tongue";
- excellent venue for corporate events.
Information
Barboris Restaurant Address: Yekaterinburg, 3A Boris Yeltsin Street.
The area of metro stations: Dynamo and 1905 Square.
If you get by bus (No. 21), trams (No. A, 3, 5, 7, 32, 27, 23, 21) or a fixed-route taxi (45, 24, 34), then the stop is Yeltsin.
Cuisine: Russian.
There is parking.
For children there are play sets.
Calculation: cash, cashless.
Barboris Restaurant is open daily from 12.00 to midnight.