Restaurant Valenok ("Valenok"): address, menu, reviews

Those who are interested in excellent Russian cuisine in Moscow, should go to the restaurant "Valenok", not so long ago opened on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 5. According to visitors, the new institution "everything is big and everything is a lot." Guests are impressed by the spacious two-storeyed restaurant building for 340 guests (sometimes 400 visitors can sit here), a six-meter boot instead of a sign at the entrance, and a generous menu designed with a truly Russian scale, in which more than 100 dishes are offered.

Restaurant Valenok is a new institution of Arkady Novikov, one of the best businessmen of the capital.

About the creator

The name of the Russian businessman Arkady Novikov is among the first in the list of successful and famous restaurateurs of Europe. He is the creator of a galaxy of famous elitist and respectable ("Tsar's Hunt", "Biscuit"), as well as democratic and simple ("Fur-stick") establishments. For many years each restaurant of Arkadiy Novikov invariably produces a furor with its uniqueness and innovation of ideas.

About Novikov Group

The menu of Novikov's restaurants, especially elite establishments, are real masterpieces and include dishes that are not familiar to the general public. Often a businessman himself is engaged in choosing a treat for a new institution. In this he relies on his own experience, as well as the trends of modern business.

For many years of hard work Novikov created one of the largest holdings of the Novikov Group, which includes a chain of restaurants in Moscow and London. On the account of the businessman more than 50 projects. He is rightfully considered the founder of the principles and traditions that have become milestones in the development of modern restaurant business.

Many of its establishments are laureates of well-known contests. The chefs who collaborate with the famous restaurateur have become famous all over the world. Their dishes fell in love with the capital's public. Many of its establishments have turned into truly cult (GQ Bar, Vogue Cafe or restaurant "Cheese").

About the quality of raw materials and technologies

The Novikov Group focuses not only on cooking technologies, but also on freshness and quality of raw materials. Products of vegetable origin in restaurants are supplied by the own enterprise of the businessman - LLC "Agronom". The fish is brought by plane.

Culinary technological positions and individual master classes are annually presented by Novikov Group at Taste, the international festival of the best restaurants in the world.

From the history of the project

Many people consider Arkady Novikova a genius restaurateur. First, it is known that he genuinely loves food. Secondly, he has the ability to feel the atmosphere of an institution unerringly. To everything, no doubt, he is a good businessman.

Experts know that it is Novikov who is the creator of the so despicable nowadays New Moscow chic of the late 1990s and early 2000s, which distinguished itself by mixing borsch, sushi, tom-yama, pasta and arugula with shrimps in one menu. But was it not about such a blatant, blooming abundance that people dreamed of escaping from Sovkoy?

In recent years, Arkady Novikov very skillfully noted in all the fashionable restaurant directions. This is the pseudo-Soviet rashness ("Kamchatka"), and the hobby of the post-Soviet public by burgers ("FARSH"), and the wave of popularity of Greek cuisine ("Semiramis").

Today people want to eat close, familiar, simple and understandable food. To everything else and inexpensive. Therefore, the restaurant Valenok opened on Tsvetnoy Boulevard.

Description

The establishment where dishes from farmers' products are prepared, funny parties are organized, where guests are invited with children (for the young visitors there are organized interesting animation events) - this is the restaurant Valenok. The institution was recently opened in Moscow, on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 5.

• The restaurant is open from noon until five in the morning.
• The average account here: 1500-2500 rubles.
• Free Wi-Fi is available.
• You can pay by card.
• There is a summer terrace.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Guests are offered a special menu: seasonal, lean.
• The special features of the establishment include baking, sommelier, live music, free parking, a summer terrace for smokers, children's animation.

What does the restaurant Valenok symbolize?

Valenok huge size (six meters high!), Located at the entrance, is the work of our contemporary artist Valeria Loshak. Monumental sculpture managed to win fame and popular love even before the opening of the institution, in Instagram. According to the author's intention, hand-dumped, the most enormous felt boots in the world should become a symbol of the breadth of the soul and the vast expanses of Russia.

The restaurant "Valenok" strikes not only the exterior design. Symbolic intent is embodied in the interior design: visitors, according to reviews, are amazed at its size and spatial solutions. The windows are two stories high, the space atrium, the eight-meter ceilings, the spaciousness of the room, designed for 340 guests, an extensive summer terrace - the impressive size, according to the authors of the reviews, is the main "chip" of the new institution. The restaurant was designed by Irina Glig ("The country that does not exist" and Vogue Cafe).

Decor

Of course, the design of the institution was not without branded Novikov accents: an open kitchen, painted white and red slate boards, a showcase with desserts (with a strawberry cake).

On the ground floor, the large hall, according to the guests' reviews, is noisier. It is pretty tightly packed with tables. On the second floor there are more tables, they are located in wall niches. Here, according to many, a more intimate atmosphere is created. Users of the networks recommend guests who decide to spend the evening at the "Valenka", go to the second floor, take a table and arrange a plentiful and long feast.

If you just ran to lunch in the working break, you can stop on the first floor.

Kitchen

According to the guests, the menu in the restaurant is also striking in scope. It is here, they believe, "old-regime huge." There are three accents here:

• People's Russian, with all kinds of smoked and sprat;
• Caucasian - the most expressive and powerful;
• Italian is the least bright.

The increased capacities of Novikov's "Cheesecake" are used in "Valenka": some cheese is exported here. With him prepare a variety of salads.

Restaurant Valenok (Moscow) offers guests an international menu, which is based exclusively on Russian farm products. Beef is brought here from Bryansk, fish comes from Murmansk, dairy products are brought from Dubna.

Responsible for the cuisine in the establishment is the chef Sergei Batukov ("Ministry of Agriculture," whose country is not ", Backstage).

Valenok is a restaurant, the menu of which will satisfy every simple and comprehensible meal: the most delicate forshmak, moderately sharp ajapsandal, tiny, one-bite, pies, juicy chicken lulles, fragrant home-made noodles with stewed lamb, manti and chebureks, pike-perch on a grill with pearl barley and Crab cutlets. At the disposal of the cooks are a smokehouse, a wood grill, a tandoor and a robot equipped in the open kitchen. In the best traditions of Novikov, the kitchen in places resembles the market vegetable rows.

Restaurant Valenok bakes its own bread, home-made pickles, compotes and smoked products are made here. All that is eaten is suggested to be washed down with homemade tinctures-liqueurs, lemonades-compotes, and wines, among which many unknown Russian names and familiar Russian names.

Sweet

Desserts deserve special attention here. Marina Nosova is engaged in the confectionery business in Valenka. Users in their reviews report that baking and desserts here are amazing. In the restaurant you can come specially to drink tea. Lovers are waiting for when they will launch a widely advertised samovar tea party. In the restaurant "Valenok", according to reviews, you can sit for half a day tasting completely ingenious cakes, pies and cakes. Crispy straws with cream from Marina Nosova, her home cake "Anthill" repeat the real taste from childhood. Her "Napoleon" with a custard was truly legendary, and a weightless, air pie with strawberries instantly disappears from the guests' plates.

Pricing

The cost of meals in the institution, users who have left their feedback on the networks, consider it quite democratic:

• Salad and smoked duck breast cost 750 rubles;
• Manty with mutton meat - 900 rub .;
• Duck leg with stewed cabbage - 550 rub .;
• Homemade noodles with stewed lamb meat - 450 rub .;
• Ragout of rabbit meat - 650 rubles;
• Pike-perch on a grill with pearl barley - 550 rub .;
• Crab chops - 750 rub.

For dessert, it's a good idea to order a curd ring (90 rub.), A cake "Medovik" (200 rubles), a walnut pie (350 rubles), a toast with jam in Moscow (250 rubles), vanilla ice cream with pineapple (400 rubles .).

Entertainment

On Fridays and Saturdays, live concerts are held in the Valenok restaurant, young musicians perform, DJ-sets are organized, etc. On weekends, on Sunday, the youngest guests can have fun at interesting and educational events. For them, a children's room is equipped, animation is used, and various master classes are organized. In the nearest plans of the institution - to launch family brunches.

Summer terrace

In any season, the door to meet their guests is the restaurant Valenok. The summer veranda here is huge, it is covered with a cheerful white-green gable roof, which can accommodate up to 240 people. In the daytime parents come here with their children: while adults are having a good dinner, the kids have the opportunity to swing on a swing, go for a drive or play table football. At weekends, children can be taken care of by caring nannies and animators. Adults can also have fun ping-pong, chess or sit in a bar. Cocktails are prepared behind the counter here, on the street.

The chef-barman Tamerlan Mairansaev ("The country that does not exist") offers guests an indispensable tasting of the branded cocktail "Valenok", mixed on rye mug with herbal liqueur and berries (600 rub.). The drink "Smuglyanka" will be prepared on spicy rum with grenadine and pomegranate juice (750 rub.). The cocktail "Marina Vladi" is a mix of sparkling wine and prune fruit (450 rubles). And the cocktail "Like a cucumber" was given the title of the most summer drink, because of its lightness, freshness, sweet and sour taste and the inherent invigorating effect. This cocktail will quench your thirst, raise your spirits, return the lost strength (600 rubles).

Impressions of guests

According to visitors, to understand the huge menu of the institution is not easy: from the abundance of dishes offered, many just run their eyes. Therefore, users of networks advise, if they came with a big, noisy and hungry company, it is necessary to search for the "To the company" section. There it is absolutely necessary to find and order a sage - a huge Azerbaijani frying pan, on which lay a mountain of kebabs, shish kebabs and vegetables baked on charcoal. Authors of reviews recommend to try a rabbit stew or a leg with millet porridge.

The restaurant of Arkadiy Novikov offers wines that are appropriate for the mood of visitors and seasons - Crimean, Kuban, Georgian, Don. According to many, a snack at lunch or dinner in the "Valenka" follows "Napoleon".

Users mark the local fine selection of meat dishes, mulled wine and chic desserts. In the institution, they say, a very delicious herring and mushroom soup, borsch, branded cocktails, fine vegetable salads, and a cold - "like my mother cooked." Pleasant guests are low prices. This place is very pleasant for gatherings, authors of responses consider. Here in the room "infinitely beautiful and stylish." Among the advantages are convenient parking, proximity to the motel, the presence of a lively veranda. Many call Arcadia Novikova a "restaurateur from God."

Everything would be perfect, some guests believe, if Arkady Novikov "for some strange reason", every time entering the restaurant, did not require musicians to play at least twice as loud. Live music in the restaurant is too loud, it's very difficult to communicate here - visitors complain.

Users of networks note other disadvantages of the institution. Many call the service here "deadly long" and "unprofessional." This applies to the wardrobe, and the hostess. It disturbs the visitors that here the client is not escorted to the table. "Personnel are not trained and do not know what they are doing," users write.

Valenok (restaurant) reviews characterize as an institution that is not designed for visitors with disabilities. The toilet is located on the 2nd floor. Some network users believe that the institution is not interested in such clients and deliberately does not solve this issue.

Network users are urging Mr. Novikov to read the reviews and influence the situation with poor-quality service. After all, the lack of professionalism of the staff can alienate the customers.

Whatever it was, today the restaurant Valenok - one of the most fashionable and "party" places in Moscow.