remember the days when the best meal you could get at Moscow's Domodedovo airport was a boiled frankfurter on a bun and a cup of coffee made of burned cardboard (it tasted like that anyway!). The queues were horrendous: serpentine and angry in a shockingly overcrowded airport. Flights used to be routinely delayed for a day or two and with no rooms available in the hotels you were lucky to sleep on a soft chair in the waiting lounge, if not - spread a newspaper on the floor and use your softest bag in lieu of the pillow.
Things have changed for better, some of them at least. Never mind the absence of air-conditioning and constant chaos in the check-in area: one good thing, you won't go hungry in Domodedovo with its latter-day proliferation of fast food chains and restaurants. It was our first time to try Yolki-Palki , one of the chain of Russian food joints. It is a self-service cafeteria, bland and overpriced as it goes for any such airport eatery in the West. We had two rather decent and filling if smallish salads: 'coated' herring and "Mimosa", two pasty and insipid cod burgers with the side of rosemary potatoes (never in my wildest dreams had I thought I would hear the word 'rosemary' in a Russian restaurant but there you go!), and a large glass mug of cranberry mors (Russian fruit drink). All that goodness set us back about 20 Euros. The waiting staff looked overworked and demotivated - like nearly all Russians we saw on this trip - yet efficient and polite.
Pro's: Handy location in the waiting lounge.
Con's: Pricey and boring.
In a nutshell: An okay place to grab a bite before your dash back to the West.
Things have changed for better, some of them at least. Never mind the absence of air-conditioning and constant chaos in the check-in area: one good thing, you won't go hungry in Domodedovo with its latter-day proliferation of fast food chains and restaurants. It was our first time to try Yolki-Palki , one of the chain of Russian food joints. It is a self-service cafeteria, bland and overpriced as it goes for any such airport eatery in the West. We had two rather decent and filling if smallish salads: 'coated' herring and "Mimosa", two pasty and insipid cod burgers with the side of rosemary potatoes (never in my wildest dreams had I thought I would hear the word 'rosemary' in a Russian restaurant but there you go!), and a large glass mug of cranberry mors (Russian fruit drink). All that goodness set us back about 20 Euros. The waiting staff looked overworked and demotivated - like nearly all Russians we saw on this trip - yet efficient and polite.
Pro's: Handy location in the waiting lounge.
Con's: Pricey and boring.
In a nutshell: An okay place to grab a bite before your dash back to the West.
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I also like to eat frankfurters and sausages, but I would probably buy and eat outside the airport rather than inside, since there is likely a huge difference in prices. But if you're in a hurry and hungry, you'd probably have to make do with the food inside the airport.
ReplyDeleteBeing russian/ukrainian - just lo-o-ove the name of this place :)!
ReplyDeleteYeaa.."mimosa" sounds familiar - layers of oil-packed canned fish, boiled eggs, cheese and of course mayo! Good stuff, tasty and extremaly filling. Nicely cut salad "pieces" looks neat.