The Soviet Café, located on Nevsky Prospekt, is one of the prime tourist attractions for those seeking a taste of the USSR. The café, reputed for its soviet-style décor, is exclusively built for tourists. Boasting soviet-style panelling, soviet films and a Russian bar experience, the restaurant menus are also notably in English. Authenticity is perhaps traded in for commercial and materialistic exhibitionism however and there is a slight sense that this is a constructed artifice. The menu is wide ranging and tantalising, starters, mains, and desserts. If authentic design and style is what you’re looking for, it is definitely the place to start. The atmosphere is stripped back to basics. Historic photographs line the walls, along with soviet films and soviet juke-boxes. If you’re after a gritty, if not slightly contrived soviet experience this is the place to go.