Restaurant Mina

Restaurateur Aram Mnatsakanov does an excellent job supplying Moscow residents with cuisines of the southern peoples – Italian Probka and Maritozzo and Georgian Mama Tuta are a testament to that. With Mina, Aram went further, combining everyone’s darling, the cooking of Italy, with the diverse and mostly exotic Lebanese cuisine. The results are impressive: there are no unnecessary hybrids such as hummus from Roman artichokes or minestrone with Oriental spices (except for the ravioli with eggplant and chickpeas), but the classic tabouleh salad peacefully shares the menu pages with tagliatelle with rabbit meat.
Beginning at 9 am, Mina serves breakfasts, and the menu is all about the familiar classics that make the mornings bearable – porridges, syrniki, baked puddings, croissants, and eggs Benedict. Look for all of this at Malaya Nikitskaya Street, which is gradually overgrowing with good restaurants, of which Mina occupies one of the prime spots.