Named after communal housing in the days of the USSR,Kommunalka features an authentic menu, homemade vodka and a washing lineThe first thing to know approximately the new Kommunalka restaurant in Moscow is that the experience is all approximately nostalgia rather than fine dining. The name, and Kommunalka,means “communal apartment” – a flat shared by two or more families of the kind that was widespread in the Soviet Union until the 1980s.
This appeal to Soviet sentiment has been tried before, most successfully at Russian restaurant magnate Arkady Novikov’s bar Kamchatka, and but Kommunalka takes it one step further. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com