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

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Those who are interested in excellent Russian cuisine in Moscow should go to the Valenok restaurant, which recently opened at 5 Tsvetnoy Boulevard. Guests are amazed by the spacious two-story building of the restaurant for 340 guests (sometimes 400 visitors can fit here), a six-meter felt boot instead of a sign at the entrance, and a generous menu conceived on a truly Russian scale, which offers more than 100 dishes.

Valenok restaurant is a new establishment of Arkady Novikov, one of the best entrepreneurs in 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 in Europe. He is the creator of a galaxy of famous elite and respectable ("Royal Hunt", "Biscuit"), as well as democratic and simple ("Yolki-Palki") establishments. For many years, each restaurant of Arkady Novikov has consistently made a splash with its originality and innovative ideas.

Ohproject Novikov Group

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

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

Many of his establishments are winners of famous competitions. Chefs collaborating with a famous restaurateur have become famous all over the world. Their dishes fell in love with the metropolitan public. Many of his establishments have become truly iconic (GQ Bar, Vogue Cafe or Cheese restaurant).

About the quality of raw materials and technologies

In Novikov Group, the emphasis is not only on cooking technologies, but also on the freshness and quality of raw materials. Vegetable products are supplied to restaurants by the businessman's own enterprise, Agronom LLC. 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

Arkady Novikov is considered by many to be a brilliant restaurateur. First, it is known that he sincerely loves food. Secondly, he has the ability to accuratelyfeel the atmosphere of the place. On top of that, there is no doubt that he is a good businessman.

Specialists know that Novikov is the creator of the now so despised Novomoskovsk chic of the late 1990s - early 2000s, distinguished by mixing borscht, sushi, tom yam, pasta and arugula with shrimp in one menu. But didn't the people who escaped the "Sovok" dream of such a blatant, blooming abundance?

In recent years, Arkady Novikov has been very skillfully noted in all fashionable restaurant trends. These are pseudo-Soviet rollicking (“Kamchatka”), and the passion of the post-Soviet public for burgers (“FARSH”), and the wave of popularity of Greek cuisine (“Semiramis”).

Today people want to eat close, familiar, simple and understandable food. On top of that, it's also inexpensive. That is why the Valenok restaurant was opened on Tsvetnoy Boulevard.

Description

The place where dishes are prepared from farm products, fun parties are held where guests with children are invited (interesting animation events are organized here for young visitors) is the Valenok restaurant. The institution has recently opened in Moscow, on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 5.

• The restaurant is open from noon to 5 am.
• Average bill here: RUB 1500–2500
• Wi-Fi is free for guests.
• Card payment accepted.
• There is a summer terrace.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Guests are offered a special menu: seasonal, lenten.
• The features of the institution include the presence of pastries, sommelier, live music, free parking, summer terracefor smokers, children's animation.

What does Valenok restaurant symbolize?

The boots of huge size (six meters high!), placed at the entrance, are the work of our contemporary artist Valeria Loshak. The monumental sculpture managed to gain fame and people's love even before the opening of the institution, on Instagram. According to the author's idea, hand-knitted, the world's largest felt boots should become a symbol of the breadth of the soul and the vast expanses of Russia.

Valenok Restaurant impresses not only with its external design. The symbolic idea is also embodied in the interior design: visitors, according to reviews, are amazed at its size and spatial solutions. Two-story windows, a space atrium, eight-meter ceilings, room capacity for 340 guests, a vast summer veranda - impressive dimensions are, according to the reviewers, the main feature of the new establishment. The restaurant was designed by Irina Glig ("Country that does not exist" and Vogue Cafe).

Design

Of course, the design of the establishment was not without Novikov's signature accents: an open kitchen, slates covered in white and red, a display case with displayed desserts (with obligatory strawberry cake).

On the ground floor, the large hall, according to guest reviews, is noisier. It is quite densely packed with tables. There are larger tables on the second floor, they are located in wall niches. Here, according to many, a more intimate atmosphere has been created. Netizens recommend that guests who decide to spend an evening at Valenka go to the second floor, take a table and have a plentiful and long feast.

If you just dropped in for lunch during your work break, you can stop on the ground floor.

Kitchen

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

• folk Russian, with all kinds of smoked and sprats inherent in it;
• Caucasian - the most expressive and powerful;
• Italian is the least flamboyant.

The increased capacity of Novikov's Cheese Factory is used in Valenka: part of the cheese is exported here. A variety of salads are prepared with it.

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

Chef Sergey Batukov (Ministry of Agriculture, The Country Which Doesn't Exist, Backstage) is in charge of the kitchen.

Valenok is a restaurant whose menu will please everyone with simple and understandable food: the most delicate mincemeat, moderately spicy ajapsandal, tiny one-bite pies, juicy chicken lula, fragrant homemade noodles with stewed lamb, manti and pasties, pike perch grilled with pearl barley and crab cutlets. The cooks have at their disposal a smokehouse, a wood-fired grill, a tandoor and a robata equipped in an open kitchen. In the best traditions of Novikov, the cuisine in places resembles market vegetable rows.

Valenok restaurant bakes its own bread, homemade pickles, compotes and smoked meats are made here. Everything eaten is offered to be washed down with home-made tinctures, liqueurs, compote lemonades, as well as wines, among which there are many unfamiliar to the public and familiar Russian names.

Sweet

Desserts here deserve special attention. Marina Nosova is in charge of confectionery at Valenka. Users in their reviews report that the pastries and desserts here are amazing. You can come to the restaurant specifically to drink tea. Fans are waiting for the widely announced samovar tea parties to be launched here. In the Valenok restaurant, according to reviews, you can sit for half a day tasting absolutely brilliant cakes, pies and pastries. Crispy tubules with cream from Marina Nosova, her homemade cake "Anthill" repeat the real taste from childhood. Her "Napoleon" with custard has become truly legendary, and the weightless, airy strawberry pie instantly disappears from the guests' plates.

Pricing

The cost of dishes in the institution, users who left their reviews on the networks, consider it quite democratic:

• salad and smoked duck breast cost 750 rubles;
• manti with lamb meat - 900 rubles;
• duck leg with stewed cabbage - 550 rubles;
• homemade noodles with lamb stew - 450 rubles;
• rabbit meat stew - 650 rubles;
• grilled pike perch with pearl barley - 550RUB;
• crab cutlets - 750 rubles

For dessert, it’s nice to order a curd ring (90 rubles), cake "Honey cake" (200 rubles), nut pie (350 rubles), butter toast with Moscow-style jam (250 rubles), vanilla ice cream with pineapple (400 rubles).

Entertainment

On Fridays and Saturdays, the Valenok restaurant hosts live concerts, young musicians perform, parties are organized with DJ sets, etc. On weekends, on Sunday, the youngest guests can have fun at interesting and educational events. A children's room is equipped for them, animation is used, and various master classes are organized. In the near future, the institution plans to launch family brunches.

Summer veranda

In any season, the Valenok restaurant opens its doors wide to meet its guests. The summer veranda here is huge, it is covered with a cheerful white-green gable awning, under which up to 240 people can fit. Parents with children come here during the day: while adults have a quiet lunch, the kids have the opportunity to swing on a swing, ride a slide or play table football. On weekends, children can be taken under the care of caring nannies and animators. Adults can also have fun playing ping-pong, chess or sit in the bar. Cocktails are prepared at the counter right here on the street.

Chef-bartender Tamerlan Mayransaev ("Country that does not exist") offers guests an indispensable tasting of the signature cocktail "Valenok", mixed in rye moonshine with herbal liquor and berries (600rub.). The Smuglyanka drink will be prepared on spiced rum with grenadine and pomegranate juice (750 rubles). Cocktail "Marina Vladi" is a mix of sparkling wine and prunes (450 rubles). And the “Like a Cucumber” cocktail was given the title of the most summer drink here, due to its lightness, freshness, sweet and sour taste and inherent invigorating effect. This cocktail will quench your thirst, cheer you up, and restore the strength lost in the heat (600 rubles)

Guest Experiences

According to visitors, it is not easy to understand the huge menu of the establishment: the abundance of dishes on offer makes many people dizzy. Therefore, network users advise that if you come with a big, noisy and hungry company, you need to look for the “To the company” section. There you should definitely find and order a saj - a huge Azerbaijani frying pan, on which a mountain of kebabs, shish kebabs and vegetables baked on charcoal is laid. The reviewers recommend that you definitely try the rabbit stew or the leg with millet porridge.

Arkady Novikov's restaurant offers wines corresponding to the mood of visitors and the season - Crimean, Kuban, Georgian, Don. According to many, a snack at lunch or dinner in "Valenka" should be "Napoleon".

Users note the excellent selection of meat dishes, mulled wines and chic desserts here. In the establishment, they believe, there is a very tasty herring and mushroom soup, borscht, speci alty cocktails, excellent vegetable salads, and jelly - "as if mom cooked it." Guests are pleased with the low prices. This place is very pleasant for gatherings,say the reviewers. Here in the room "infinitely beautiful and stylish." Of the pluses, they note convenient parking, the proximity of the motel, the presence of a lively veranda. Arkady Novikov is called by many a “restaurateur from God.”

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

Networkers note other disadvantages of the institution. Many call the service here "deadly slow" and "unprofessional". This applies to both the wardrobe and the hostess. Visitors are outraged by the fact that here the client is not escorted to the table. “The staff is not trained and does not know what they are doing,” users write.

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

Networkers urge 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 customers.

Be that as it may, today the Valenok restaurant is one of the most fashionable and "party" places in Moscow.