I'll go ahead and say it: 2024 was the most exciting year I've seen for new restaurants in Cincinnati since I started this ...

Even the chicken Kiev — or, rather, a deep fried kotleta variation studded with croutons — has gone from a miss to a must-order. Order this: Okroshka, herring under a fur coat, pelmeni ...

The menu features classic dishes like beef, cabbage and horseradish borsch, beef stroganoff with buckwheat and fried baby potatoes, herring fillets with boiled potatoes, Russian salad with chicken and ...

Nothing takes the burn off quite like a steaming plate of this spot’s “Peasant Pelmeni.” Delicate layers of tender dough encase a salty nugget of a beef and pork mixture. A creamy mushroom sauce seeps ...