Restaurant St. Petersburg

"The last day of the year is traditionally reserved to me, yes the whole world celebrates my birthday. That's what I saw as a little boy, today you're a little more pragmatic. However, I am still happy today about personal congratulations. More than I did on 31.12. made the computer in the morning, visited the GG website and made a personal congratulations from Helmut. Thanks for that! Since our kids are now big, and especially New Year's Eve with friends go their own way, the obligatory birthday party is out. For this I have already reserved a table for us five in the Dresden restaurant “St. Petersburg”. Why here? Due to the past holidays, there were plenty of good-bourgeois, German cuisine, and the appetite for something else was a little bigger. However, I also had to consider that our son-in-law did not eat everything and I had to find an adequate compromise. In St Petersburg, I was joined, so not only Russian and Uzbek cuisine is served here, but also in many parts of German cuisine. That should fit. View from the main road Since the restaurant is located on one of the Dresdner shopping corners, the main road, and here the driving is excluded, we have placed our mobile base on the Königsstraße, which runs parallel. Still fed the one-armed bandits of the city of Dresden, the last meter walked to the restaurant. The main road extends shortly after the Augustus Bridge from the famous “Golden Rider” to the Neustadt to the Albertplatz. On the left and right of the main road, with the best socialist charm, you will find plenty of gastronomy in addition to enough shops. Among other things, St. Petersburg is located in a renovated and partly newly built house from the early 19th century. Through a large arch, you have to go to the backyard before you get a small entrance to the right. A few steps up, and one stands in a small, almost baroque guest room. Large dark wooden tables with even larger, rustic and red plush armchairs dominate the guest room. In some cases, the tables are so tightly joined together that the backrests of the chairs touch with the backrests of the hind banks. Unfortunate if someone has to go to the bathroom in between. The heavy wooden tables are covered in the matching red with corresponding ceilings. This color symbiosis is true. The walls of the high room are held in white and a delicate pink, the ceiling partly decorated with stucco. On the ceiling, a large chandelier illuminates the room, supported by other lights on the wall. So far so good, only the delicate pink does not fit in my eyes to a Russian restaurant. Who gave advice on colouring? After we had stayed here in the entrance for a few minutes, the boss then tried to get out behind her vault, asked our reservation and accompanied us to our table. Since the place was quite full on our arrival, this was also the only table for 5 people. Here, however, the narrowness was shown in another, unpleasant way: the people sitting on the wall always had their arm on the cold wall. Not really nice. Much too tight seating arrangements After we had set ourselves cumbersomely through the large chairs, the menus were handed out. However, for us five people only 4 cards were available. A person could see the neighbor. Mmmmh, this isn't so great. Russian and Uzbek cuisine is praised menu The menu is plentiful and contains everything from soups to small appetizers, so something for everyone. Thus, from Russian Pelmeni to lamb and wild dishes, fish, chickens and roasts from pig or beef to vegetarian plate everything is included. Excerpt from the menu We first oriented ourselves to the drinks, and ordered: As drinks: · 1x 0.5ér Baltika Hell for 4,00 € · 1x 0.2ér Richards Riesling Half-dry for 5,20 € · 2x 0.4ér Coca Cola for each 4,00 € · 1x 0.4ér Russian lemonade for 4,00 € While the boss is now standing behind the table alone and the drinks have to be finished So it takes a while to get the drinks in place. Another older lady threw the kitchen alone. So we had also prepared our foods, and ordered: As an appetizer: · 3x Russian meat soljanka for each 6,70 € As main dishes it should be: · 1x pumice filled with minced meat (skin and beef) baked with cheese and mushroom sauce for 12,50 € · 1x pupils Meanwhile we were able to enjoy our drinks and let the last New Year's Eve revue happen. The Richards Riesling half-dry was not necessarily the outstanding wine. Although it tasted slightly spicy, the selling price of a bottle of about 5 euros did not make this wine a top wine. There's something better. Baltika Hell The Baltika beer, I am amazed that there is this beer here despite trade restrictions with Russia, was a golden yellow beer with a bribe foam crown. His slightly malty taste was very good. The Russian lemonade was then not hoped for our daughter, but it tasted like a strong herbal lemonade, similar to the well-known alms settlers. Baltika Hell, Richards Riesling half-dry, Russian lemonade Now our Soljankas were finally there. In large bowls they came, and at first glance, disappointment was wide with me. A very thin, ultimately also very mild or fade soup should be a Soljanka here. Meat soljanka rather a thin soup It was abundant meat from pig and beef, as well as Viennese sausages and hunting sausages included, also a few sour cucumbers were to be found. But what olives have to look for in a Soljanka does not come to me. A stick of acidic cream slips in without love, should normally take the sharpness which was not present here. rich supplement, but tasteless There was finished bread from the big baker, which tasted just as well as the soup. Even the temperature of the soup left much to wish. I like soups, but I like hot. That was nix. I expected that much better from the Russians. Bread to Soljanka No 10 minutes later our main dishes were already there. The Pelmeni with cheese and mushroom sauce were baked in a large bowl. The Pelmeni were well filled with mixed minced meat of beef and gland. The minced meat is good spicy, but dry and crumbling. But this made the abundant cheese and the mushroom sauce, which seemed to have come out of the bag of a large sauce maker. Pelmeni filled with minced meat (skin and beef) baked with cheese and mushroom sauce The Chebureki were two large, fried or fried dough pockets which were also filled with this crumbling, spicy minced meat. The outer dough was crispy for this. Cheebureki Fried dough bags filled with meat, with salad and sour cream The salad was very clear from the large bucket of the Convenience department of a large market. The sour cream was used for “ditching” but was otherwise misplaced. Cheebureki Fried dough bags filled with meat, with salad and sour cream The filled furmeni with acid cream looked out and also tasted as if you picked a suitable bag at the discounter, and warmed up at home. disappointing, because there is nothing about Russian craftsmanship, but only wholesale goods are processed. Pelmeni filled with minced meat (skin and beef) and Saurer cream Schwiegersöhnchen had ordered the pork carving as usual. Instead of frying potatoes, he would rather want croquettes. Since we sat directly with a view to the small kitchen, and all the noises from the ping of the many microwaves to the czech of the fryer from there into the guest room, we are sure that this carving was already done here before it came into the pan. Corresponding knocking noises from the kitchen were misdisplay, the consistency of the carving as well as the solid and uniform panades allow to close to wholesale goods. The croquettes are not made themselves now is aware of me, somewhat darker fritted and especially hot they can be already. The “small salad” was, of course, also a joke, as it was just a herb salad from the wholesale bucket. Pig carving with roasted potatoes and small salad here with change to croquettes. As a birthday boy yesterday, I was really looking forward to the chick, which is actually just a roasted meat skewer made of marinated pork. In addition to pork, a real sash has liver, onion and paprika on the skewer. But the meat here should be marinated. But I'm still wondering what today. The meat tasted simply and gripping after nothing. No wort, no sharpness. Schaschlik – fried meat skewers (made of marinated pork) with sharp paprika sauce with croquettes, a small salad a 0.5 l glass beer I also look for the sharp paprika sauce today, for that there was a small bowl with garlic sauce, which already reminded of Tzatziki. That's not Russian. I am not talking about the almost cold croquettes and the “small salad” here anymore. There was at least one house beer, which, however, tasted just as faded as the whole food. Schaschlik – fried meat skewers (made of marinated pork) with sharp paprika sauce with croquettes, a small salad a 0.5 l glass of beer the fade house beer Since there is also something sweet for the birthday, the girls wanted to share a dessert. So they ordered: · 1x egg cake with sweet quart filling, chocolate sauce and vanilla sauce for 5,90 € · 1x egg cake with hot strawberries, vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce for 6,90 € These two egg cakes, or as we say pancakes were at the table after a few minutes. The pancakes were good, almost like before at Grandma. The thick and much too sweet quarterly filling was ultimately unnecessary. Also the thin chocolate sauce was not so necessarily the premium product. Even the whipped cream was only cheap spray cream from the can. Egg cake with sweet quart filling, chocolate sauce and vanilla sauce The egg cake with the hot strawberries was well filled. Here there was the delicious, legendary Russian cream. A dream. At least the ice and pancakes. Eggcake with hot strawberries, vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce After almost two hours we left the now empty place, and were, at least here, disappointed by Russian food. Luckily, there was a vodka for each main dish, which we two gentlemen now incorporated, the girls had sweet. for each main dish there is a vodka free Our conclusion: we left € 131.70 in the Dresden restaurant “St. Petersburg” on the main street. I wanted to try something else in a culinary way, and was completely disappointed here by exclusive finished products. Operation was also not the challenge of a full business. Who follows my recites attentively, I recognize that at our birthday dinners in the last time I have always been in the Sch.... Got it. Too bad. This year is now about half the century, then it should work better."