Author: Moskovskii Trest Restoranov
Title: A Group of Menus and Price-Lists by the Moscow Restaurant Trust and Restaurant "Ukraine
Description: Moscow, By the authors, 1958. First Edition. Two menus and teo price-lists - two each for the Moscow Restaurant Trust and Restaurant "Ukraine;" pp. 8, 16, 8, and 4 respectively; cream stock, printed and ruled in blue; one of the price-lists with a few small smudges to margins, the rest with minor wear - in very good to near fine condition. In Russian and (one of them) - English, French, and German. Following the Second World War, with the continued revival of the Moscow restaurant scene - all the restaurants in the capital were merged into Mosrestoranrest (Moscow Restaurant Trust), which oversaw the quality of their work and enforced a strict compliance with recipes of its own creation. Chefs were expressly prohibited from using their own recipes. If a chef decided a personally-invented dish deserved it, he/she presented it to a special commission for approval and if approved - then the recipe would be added to Mosrestoranrest's general collection for distribution. Evidence of this are two of items in the current collection - a general menu in Russian, English, German, and French and a price-list in Russian - with spaces for prices, to be employed in any of the Trust's restaurants. One exception to the rule were a handful of restaurants, offering cuisine from the various Soviet republics. They were the only ones allowed to serve "exclusive dishes." The menu from Restaurant "Ukraine," in fact, did not list any dishes - it included an ornate border, within which the dishes and prices were supposed to be written. The price list did list drinks - wine, liquors, non-alcoholic beverages, and tobacco products. The opulent restaurant was housed in the Hotel "Ukraine" - built between 1953 and 1957 as the largest hotel in Europe and the tallest one in the world at that time. It would also be Stalin's last skyscraper - one of the "Seven Sisters" - a group of Moscow skyscrapers commissioned by him and built in a distinctive Stalinist style. Very good .

Keywords: Russia, Menu


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