Restaurant 'Steakhouse Meat & Wine', Odessa Based in 1998

 

The gastronomical heart of the city — is famous Privoz. It’s always noisy, pushing, swinging hundreds arms, fishes, bunches and bundles. And now you’re already taking the play, loudly screaming «Make me the kilogram! », and filling with fresh red mullet, «sugar» tomatoes and pink thick sour milk. The big luck — is to find at the marked choosing ingredients for the special dishes the chef of «Steakhouse»: he will brightly tell, which features difference the fresh beef liver and what for you need the pork grid.

 

And if somebody had smell the charming aromas that much that cant wait till the kitchen, then put your bags away and look upside. The breakfast is more proper to make in the cozy «Kompot» not far away from the Privoz. Savoring fresh croissant with ham and looking around the mischievous interior, stylish designed by the simple things like glasses and clothespins, you feel that you’re fulfilled the strength for the new exploits.

 

 

The vacationers are divided to those who love on the new place to invent some special, unusual dish, and those who thinks that «at the rest you have to rest» e.g. to eat at the restaurants. These two points of view are connected with light move of hand — with help of the school «Meat & Wine». Chef without hiding is sharing to ones who wish to «be ground» in cooking skills the secrets of cooking the juicy steaks, pudgy kebabs and the other delicacy — and we will right here with appetite will eat the gastronomical chef-d'oeuvre, which they were belong to themselves, among having a bit of the useful information about the most suitable for every appetite dish sauces and wines.

 

By the way, about wines. Don’t forget where you are! You’re right now staying at that named wine parallel — on the same thickness with Bordeaux and Bourgogne. Don’t miss the going to your hands chance — to visit the famous Shabo.

 

In these places were grown grapes and made from it sunny drink many hundreds of years ago. Here were raised the toasts of the Greek colonists, Scythians, Sarmatia’s and antique Romans, midcentury Geniuses and Turkish people. Again, about 200 years ago Swiss colonists, after reaching two and half kilometers on the carts (!), settled up on the place of the countryside nowadays in Odessa region the countryside of the winemakers — and from these times began real making of something, where truth is. 

 

Today there is not just winemaking centre, but the whole centre of wine culture. Guides will tell you how Shabo is connected to the Pushkin, Lesya Ukrainka and Romanian king Karol, and take you to the saint of saints — there where are vaguer in barrels sweet juice, turning to the delicious sherry or noble cognac. Laced installation and colorful streams of the Dionis fountain are impressing even before degustation. And more colors it will be brighten in the degustation hall. 

 

 

How do you think, is that possible to lucky connect the European service and reasoning with coziness and charming negligence «like in old nice years at our dacha in countryside»? yes if you will be lucky to have a dinner in the restaurant «Dacha». Finally you will feel with all your soul and entity, what is Odessa cuisine with its fish (after which you will with enthusiasm accept the best local compliment «stuffed»), eggplant caviar (just don’t call it banal eggplant sauce) and potatoes with herring, which, do you remember, Zhvanecky have written like… «I’m to Odessa! Immediately! For dinner!»? Happy swimming to you in the sea of delicacies! Don’t swim beyond the buoy!

 

Juliya Tishko

Lisa №38