I don't wanna say that the place is bad. Not at all! We had booked a table for five in advance and it was ready on time. Imposing interior, furniture à la l'époque de Pierre le Grand, cozy, clean, tidy. The staff was polite, professional...and hospitable. Their food, however, was rather controvertial: - shchi, made the day before (traditional Russian sauerkraut soup) - mind-blowing; - salads (with smoked duck breast, Olivier aka Russian salad abroad and the one with quail eggs) - very nice; - pirozhki (baked yeast-leavened boat-shaped buns with various fillings) with ground meat and onion as well as with eggs - gorgeous; - pike patties - a catastrophe, dry and sort of pliant; - stewed rabbit, Pozharsky cutlet (breaded ground chicken patty), stewed beef and Guriev porridge (dessert made from semolina and milk) - quite okay; - pike-perch fillet - tasteless and served with some poignant sauce (to camouflage lack of taste?) which is a taboo with fish, by the way. It cost us five RUR 5,715 (ca. USD 76) - expensive for Russia and from the point of view of price-quality ratio unacceptable. So, welcome to Sobranie - if you have extra money to spend.More