I felt very guilty though eating such a sophisticated dish knowing the poor #Pinocchio(aka Russian #Buratino) ate raw onion for breakfast, listened to the annoying lessons of an intelligent cricket and beautiful Malvina, The Blue-Hair Girl who encouraged him to count the apples; I guess their friend Poodle Artemon knew how to count better than the stupid Buratino. Russian version of the famous tale promoted good hearted Buratino vs. dumb Buratino who trusted The Fox and The Cat, the local crooks who told him that money can grow on trees - anyway the story was very very sad to me while I was a small girl... The tale said: it is better to have good heart rather than to have a good brain - very Russian story indeed - the kind but lazy fools there always get everything: the girl, the money and the kingdoms while his hard working but evil brothers get the "kukish s maslom" . I imagined I was a smart Malvina and I hated Buratino for his brainless behavior; Well the poor boy did not even have money to buy his first Az-buka (the Alphabet school book) forget about our chips... although when the wooden boy opened the Magical Doors and his own theater he was sort of bearable... but overall - it was one horrible story, horrible... The pictures on the walls were very engaging and we noticed that was a family place with lots of boys at around 10-12 years old who for some reason were all starring at us and I had to explain to each of them that we speak Russian - that made them red in their faces - I have no idea why :)
Back to the food. We ordered two porterhouses with roasted vegetables. Best part of the dinner was the veggies cooked with perfection - the meat was very tough and leathery, unengageable and tasteless, the chips were from the local supermarket I guess - no love put into cooking - it was felt right through. the chips weer supposed to be with parmesan cheese - none we saw though. The rather overpriced dishes did not correspond to the food quality and some common standards.
we paid half price for our mains with our Entertainment Book. want to travel with us in style through the best the book can offer? get yours: https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/182v887 - we have only two copies left now
service - 5/5
atmosphere - 4/5
food - 3/5