Bar Zoyka

An amazing restaurant on Patriarch’s Ponds that transcends the usual restaurant format. The owners of “Zoyka” call this place a living room, which seems true: there are floral wallpapers, velvet sofas, and other attributes of a formal home space.

Once there, you also feel like a participant in an intimate gathering — whether social or semi-domestic, depending on the mood. The hosts of the salon behave as expected in such cases: they feed you (chicken with morels and mashed potatoes, or crème brûlée with lime zest and vanilla), offer distillates, and entertain. For example, they host alumni evenings of the “Brusnikin Workshop” and other creative meetings, and they constantly recite poetry, which is a great delight.