St Petersburg, Russia - Part 6

For Sunday dinner we thought we would try out a restaurant called Yolki Palki which is apparently part of a chain offering reasonably authentic Russian food (at least according to them). This restaurant is in the same block as the Radisson but across the other side of Nevsky Pr. We eventually found it and they must be doing something right because it was packed full of local people - not a table to be had and this was Sunday night. Undeterred we wandered up in the other direction on Nevsky where we had not yet been - up towards Vosstaniya Pl where the Moscow Railway station is. We came across a place with some sort of Egyptian theme called Sphinx. They seemed to have room so we decided to give it a try. It was a strange sort of atmosphere with Egyptian influenced decor and playing funky western music. The menu was interesting too with many of the meat dishes expressed as xxx grams. One of the Chicken dishes looked promising a braised whole boned chicken. I read the 750 grams as being the weight of the whole meal. Wrong! it was just the weight of the chicken. After having had an entree there was no way I could get through that - delicious as it was. Even with Mike and Sandra helping we couldn't finish it. Can't say that we hadn't been warned - Russians like thier meat!.

All in all it was a fitting end to another interesting day.