This sprawling, fresh and airy restaurant with views to the canal makes a nice venue for a speedy and unpretentious Italian lunch or dinner. As you arrive you’ll find that every table already has a menu on it, so no need to wait around for one of the hip waitresses to come and bring you one. And what’s on the menu here? Well, mozzarella of course! The pizzas and salad caprese naturally are good choices and we also enjoyed the grilled shrimps. As is becoming the norm here they also do sushi - seemingly Russians can’t live without it. Also at PS Bolshoy pr. 13/4 (metro Sportivnaya).

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