Yeliseevskiy Gastronom
At the end of nineties of 19 century the house in Tverskaya street was bought by trader of St.Petersburg, the millionaire, Grigiry Eliseev, the tradesman of wine and colonial produce, the owner of the biggest grocery store in Nevsky avenue, in St.Petersburg in Russia. Here "the Eliseev Store and Russian, Foreign Wine Cellars" was opened. "Eliseevsky" was being opened solemnly with church service and priests who were invited specially for that ceremony. Counters in the store were full of different kinds of food. Eliseev who established friendly relations with european countries, sold various sorts of tea and coffee, different kinds of cereals, butter, cheese, sausages, rum, fruit, truffles and anchovies. (Eliseevsky Gastronom, 2016)
Located in the very center of the city in a former merchant palace, it has the most beautiful interior you’ve ever seen in a grocery store. Hand-painted ceilings, beautiful arcs, tiled floors – and in the midst of all that you’ll find the finest Russian produce at supermarket prices. They also have a good souvenir section, thus Eliseevsky can be a good place to stock up on gifts before the departure. Open 24 hours. Assortment of bread, pies, cakes, fancy cakes, exclusive hand-made chocolate from the own sweet-shop strike. The counter of "Cookery" offers plenty of ready dishes, prepared by masters of "Alye Parusa" according to the European, Asian, Near-Eastern recipes and also russian dishes: borscht in moscow way, salad in boyarsky, sturgeon in aspic, faintly-salted salmon, baked carp, chicken-roll with prunes and cheese, mushrooms marinated, freshly-salted cucumbers, fermented tomatoes with nuts.The counter of semi-prepared food of own production makes glad the connoisseurs of home food: cool rabbit, delicate sirloin, australian marble beef, steak, beefsteak in kazachian way, cutlets in prazhsky and balkansky, home roast, meet, lamb with haricot in mexican, capsicum stuffed in kedaysky way, paparatz-kvetki made of cheese and mushroom fillet, cod in polish, pike-perch in moldavian, sturgeon shashlik ( (Eliseevsky Gastronom, 2016) |