The revamped snack bar peddles organic hot dogs, piroshki, veggie spring rolls, and fair-trade coffee. |
Vareniki and piroshki were also popular dishes. |
Other tastes of Russia include soups like a hearty borscht, pelmeni dumplings, delicate pojarski cutlet paved with tiny croutons, and pastry-wrapped piroshki, like a Russian empanada. |
The piroshki, a small Russian pastry filled with vegetables, was light and very moreish. |
A bowl of piroshki is automatically served to dinner guests at no charge. |
The food gets high marks: according to one story, a client once sent his car from Moscow — about 186 miles away — to pick up a batch of 600 of its meat-filled piroshki for a birthday party. |