Menu
Starters
Zapuska à la Mesta 12 € (as a main course 22 €)
Treasures of Tretyakov Gallery are served in a long trolley every day from Wednesday to Saturday. Also as a starter or through out the whole meal. Offering you over 15 different kinds of treats including
• Pickled fish
• Smoked sprat
• Cold smoked salmon
• Beetroot caviar
• Salmon roe
• Fresh cucumber in sour cream
• Small blinis
• Black bread
• Mushroom salad
• Pickled cucumber with garlic and honey
Vorsmack Blini
Traditional meat dish with beetroot syrup, sour cream and pickled cucumber. Marshal Mannerheim’s souvenir from his long trips over Russia. 7 €
Meat piroshki
This well known classic is served with butter and steaming bouillon 7 €
Pelmenies
The Russian version of ravioli, served either in bouillon or with sour cream and butter 7 €
As a main course 12 €
Juliennes
Lose your heart to these popular Russian starters, originated from the Soviet time.
Beef Julienne
Beef and vegetables in a spicy tomato and sour cream sauce 8 €
Mushroom Julienne
Mushrooms and vegetables in a spicy tomato and sour cream sauce 7 €
Mesta’s Authentic Charcoal Grill
Heat from charcoal and smoky flavours roast the skewers and the steaks in our grill. This will guarantee you a mouth-watering experience.
WE SINCERELY RECOMMEND!
Georgian Tkemali
Pork and lamb skewers marinated with plum, garlic, chilli, cinnamon, dill and coriander 18 €
Beef à la Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Lime and adjika marinated beef skewer 22 €
Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird
Spicy chicken skewer with fennel and apple 17 €
All skewers are served with piquant Georgian tomato sauce, fried potatoes and vegetables.
Tatar’s Burger
Char-grilled bread with olive oil, spicy lamb burger, red onion compote, chilli-nut mayonnaise and Moscow swede wedges 14 €
Grilled Corn Fed Chicken Kiev
Butter sauce with lemon and parsley served with buckwheat 18 €
Ataman’s Steak from tenderloin (250g)
Bell pepper and sour cream sauce, fried potatoes 26 €
Classics from Soviet community
Pojarski’s Cutlets à la Mesta
Favourite veal cutlets of Tsar Nicolas I, served with dark madeira sauce and fried potatoes 15 €
Beef Stroganoff
Revolutionary version of the all-time classic: breast of beef, onions and champignons, sour cream sauce and barley 16 €
Cabbage rolls
With mushroom and vegetable filling, rowanberry and apple compote served with buckwheat 13 €
Coulibiak of Arctic Charr à la Mesta
Arctic charr wrapped in a blini with fried boletus and onions, served with warm leek and spinach, and vodka and red currant sauce 17 €
Desserts
Syrniki
Pancakes with delicious cherry compote 7 €
Cranberries in Stolichnaya Vodka
With hot cinnamon and caramel sauce 6 €
Chocolate Cake à la Catherine the Great
With vodka marinated blackcurrants 6 €
Charlotte Russe Limited Edition for two
Raspberry and cream custard with cardamom syrup and chocolate sauce 12 €
The starting point for a good meal is good raw material. For us, this means preferably Finnish and locally grown. Russian classics are the basis on which we try out also more innovative solutions. Russian kitchen is influenced a lot with passion. That’s the secret ingredient in our food too.
Head Chef Jaakko Seppä
