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Food and Drinks Russia PDF
Food and Drinks Russia PDF
Things to know:
City centre bars are usually open until the early hours. Drinking on the street is considered
perfectly acceptable.
Tipping:
Hotels in Moscow and other large cities include a 10 to 15% service charge. Otherwise 10%
is customary.
Regional drinks:
• Chai (sweet tea served without milk).
• Vodka is often flavoured and coloured with herbs and spices: Zubrovka (made with a kind
of grass), Ryabinovka (steeped with rowan-tree berries), Starka (a dark, smooth, aged
vodka) and Pertsovka (made with hot pepper). Russky Standart, Stolichnaya and Gzhelka
are also popular brands.
• Krushon (cold 'punch'; champagne, brandy and summer fruits are poured into a hollowed
watermelon and chilled for several hours).
• Nalivka (sweet liqueur made with fruit or berries).
• Nastoika (fortified wine made of herbs, leaves, flowers, fruit and roots of plants with
medicinal properties