Балтика #3
Baltika Beer #3
at the “Kiev” restaurant, Kyoto Japan
We recently had a very nice family dinner at the Kiev Russian Restaurant (レストランキエフ) in Kyoto's Gion district.
I'd never had Russian cuisine and so didn't really know what to expect, but it was fantastic. It was a good place to make a first impression of Russian food because the highest quality was evident in every aspect of the meal... from the obviously superb raw ingredients down to the presentation.
At Kiev I had the spring seasonal course dinner “Besner”... course after course of absolutely delightful foods of, again, the highest quality. I couldn't get enough.
I only had my iPhone camera with me, and I don't want to put yucky photos of amazingly-good food, but here's one that's sort of fun, some kind of popover bread as a lid for a pot of exceedingly succulent beef stew...
iPhone 4S at an effective 35mm — 1/15 sec, f/2.4, ISO 640 — map & image data — nearby photos
Wow
my mother-in-law registers surprise at the size
The meal ends with a cup of hot tea, made interesting by a huge pot of jam that you're supposed to mix in (instead of honey or sugar, I suppose).
iPhone 4S at an effective 35mm — 1/20 sec, f/2.4, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Tea and Jam
Kyoto's “Kiev” restaurant: highly recommended.
What the heck is Besner? It doesn’t sound like something Russian.
“Besner” is what I took the Japanese menu’s “ベスナー” to translate as, assuming it was someone’s name. I’d snapped a photo of that page of the menu, and looking at it now I see it says that it’s Russian for “spring”, so I assume it’s really “весна”. —Jeffrey
I’ve never had Russian food. Do they have lunch too? Sounds very interesting.
Yes, I had lunch there yesterday. Very nice. —Jeffrey
I also never had Russian food, so I’m very curious about this place.
todo_list += Kiev;
Ooh yum, I’m going to try my tea with some strawberry jam. Sounds really odd, but probably tastes pretty good.
Russian restaurant in Kyoto? Its even serving “Baltica” Beer. Its produced in my hometown, St. Petersburg, and its a one of the best Russian beers . I was in Kyoto 4 months ago and sadly i did not know about this place. But at least I have amazing Japanese food 🙂