Friday, September 3, 2010

Uncle Vanya’s

November 24, 2006 by Feisty Foodie  
Filed under Cheap Eats, Manhattan, Midtown, Restaurants, Russian

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I’m not sure how we started out looking for sushi and wound up with [cheap] Russian food, but that’s where we found ourselves on Tuesday night- on 54th between 8th & 9th Avenues, on a dark & deserted block (I arrived late and alone, and was a bit creeped out walking up the block towards this place).  It proved to be a good choice by StB, though.
StB started off with the chicken & pelmeni soup.  You can’t see it, but there are a bunch of pelmeni at the bottom of this bowl; pelmeni being the Russian equivalent of a dumpling.  She said [...]