The weekday selection today seemed a lot wider in some items, though on the hot and cold bars I noticed some things from the other day were missing (eg the sautéed mushrooms, potatoes, and onions). Perhaps they vary the lunch vs dinner selection.
The savory pastries had much more variety today — there was a meat Khachapuri in addition to the cheese one, pumpkin manti in addition to beef, beef vareniki plus the potato ones, 3 kinds of bilyashi that I need to look up, 4 kinds of chebureki, plus various samsa.
A few people were buying plov, carefully portioned with rice, vegetables, and meat.
There were also stuffed peppers, a rice version and a meat version, plus meat stuffed grape leaves, in addition to the cabbage rolls and chicken stew.
The smoked and cured fish section is mesmerizing (there’s also a caviar and roe section) and very well priced. I picked up a tiny assortment box to try some things that were new to me.
Lots of halal charcuterie too, including basterma and pastirma.
And the cheese section, while compact, is quite extensive. I found edam balls, which are hard to come by these days.
