Restaurant “Temnitsa” in Smolensk is a traditional institution of premium Russian cuisine with high prices.
This name he received is not accidental. The fact is that the restaurant is located in a historic building - Pyatnitskaya Tower, which has seen a lot in its lifetime. Here was a church, and a powder depot, and even a museum of the revolution. In the century before last, a jail was located in it - hence the modern name came from.
Help for guests
The address of the restaurant "Temnitsa" (Smolensk): Studentskaya Street, 4, not far from the Dnieper embankment.
The institution works without breaks and days off from 12 to 00 hours.
The average bill per person is about 2000 rubles.
Payment for services: in cash, by bank transfer and bank cards.
Service
In the restaurant, visitors will find everything that an institution of this level can offer.
Dungeon has its own bakery, which means guests are always provided with fresh pastries.
The restaurant has free parking, on the tables there is a menu in Russian and English, in the evenings there is live music, there is a summer terrace, a wine list, a smoking area, and take-away coffee can be ordered.
The Temnitsa restaurant in Smolensk offers Russian cuisine, with particular attention to forest game. In addition, there is a special offer - the grill menu. Farm products are used for cooking.
To accommodate guests equipped with several rooms:
- Mirrored - for 18 people.
- Velvet - for 20 people.
- Secret - up to 15 guests from one company.
- Summer balcony with a view of the Dnieper and the embankment - for 8 people.
What to order
The menu of the restaurant is so vast that it is simply impossible to name all the positions, but the most interesting should be mentioned.
From appetizers you can order boar boiled pork, red deer sliced planer, poultry paste, farm piglet brisket, Smolensk goat cheeses, black milk mushrooms, dried moose meat.
An interesting section with salads. There is an unconventional olivier with duck breast, vegetable with goat cheese, warm salads with venison and rabbit liver, from farm veal and others.
Of the soups on the Russian table is always held in high esteem hodgepodge, okroshka, cold borsch, daily soup, tsar’s ear.
Hot appetizers are represented by game and duck dumplings, various pancakes and pancakes, dumplings with cherries.
Russian fish dishes are an unspeakable pleasure. There is lemon breaded zander, pike cutlets, river char, baked with herbs and cream, and, of course, whole smelt with crispy fried crust.
Meat delights are no less impressive: tender deer tenderloin, duck breast in cranberry sauce, farm quail with honey mushrooms, Stroganoff venison, veal, roe and turkey medallions, pork neck with mushrooms and potatoes, calf tongue in walnut sauce walnuts, roast game, cutlets from a bear, wild boar, deer and elk.
Of the desserts you can order the company-owned biscuit “Dungeon” with chocolate cream, air meringue, a small basket of sand with berries, “Drunk Pear” with a scoop of ice cream and assorted pies.
In addition, cereals, potatoes, rice, baked vegetables are served here.
You can order dishes for the company: a kilogram of potato pancakes with different additives, a slide of toast from different breads for beer, "Meat Fortress" of five types of meat, "Fish boat" of five types of fish.
Guest opinion
There are a lot of positive reviews about the Temnitsa restaurant: they like the location, the interior, the delicious food, the excellent author's drinks, the helpful staff, the special atmosphere, the beautiful quiet music. But there are also disadvantages: in the first place, these are high prices, as well as incidents in service: transplanting from place to place, busy tables, and too pathetic atmosphere.