Reviews for Pushkin Restaurant & Bar in San Diego, CA
This is a very unique restaurant and an elegant ambience to enjoy an evening exploring Eastern European dishes. They have a wide... variety of entrees if you're adventurous on trying different meat such rabbit and duck. A taste of Russian delicacies and drinkwas worth it. Read more
The door is small but the room is huge! The decorations were lovely and made me feel like I wasn't in San Diego anymore! The... host with the top hat adds to the experience ???? The cocktails were really good, we stuck with clear liquors. I feel they werepriced for downtown San Diego. Food wise, I'm not an expert on Russian/Eastern European food. We opened with a cup of theborsht which was tasty. It came with a side of sour cream which was interesting to stir into the soup! We got the pelmeni beeffrom babushka or beef dumplings which were tasty on its own but better with the sour cream, also filling. We shared the beefstroganoff which you can decide is plated with either noodles, mashed potatoes or house ftied potatoes. We opted for mashedpotatoes. Also tasty and came with sour cream. The pickled veggies on the side was a nice touch. Overall great experience withambiance and service. Food wise I feel like there could have been more, but I was still satisfied! Read more
The food was fantastic and I loved the kvass. Started off the evening with the Borcht and herring; the Borcht was tasty and... light while the herring provided a delightfully salty burst and paired well with the creaminess of the egg. The rabbit wastender and delicious, not a hint of gaminess. The cream sauce and potatoes were fluffy and mild. The honey cake finished was aperfect treat to finish off the whole night. Would recommend. Read more
Overall the food was okay however the food was severely overpriced and the beef stroganoff was while decent was the wrong... consistency and the sauce was off point. Also I would say that the borsht was alright but could have benefited from more meat.The blini with potato and mushroom could have had more mushrooms. Read more
Excellent experience. Service good and food on point. Had red and black Caviar, Borscht, Golubtsi, and Honey Cake. Will return... when I am back in San Diego. Read more
Small place that isn't impressive from the outside but gorgeous from the inside. Staff were very friendly and helped us decide.... The food was delicious! I got the dumplings with viel (definitely don't remember the real name). Desert was a honey cake, amust! Enjoy! Read more
I only had the desserts here, but they were amazing and delicious. I had the honey cake and sour cream cake. Both had crepe-like... layers, and it didn't feel too dense. Both were not too sweet (unless you swipe a big glop of honey with your fork). The sourcream cake had a small tang, and the sour cream flavor wasnt overwhelming. Read more
One of the best date nights I've had here in San Diego! Amazing vibe an amazing food! We were seated by the entrance where... there was the nice decor with plants on the wall, and it really brought up the aesthetic. Rye Bread + Butter for the table assoon as we entered. The bread had a really nice flavor to it on its own and so did that butter. That butter was just amazing! Sofresh and had some herby vibe going on. I actually asked for some butter to go! Borscht - We got the Borscht soup to start. Ihad Googled the dish before and was expecting a red color soup made with beetroot. But what we got was actually a clear soupwith some root vegetables like potatoes and carrots and pieces of beef. Definitely not the soup we were expecting but it tastedgood on its own. They gave some sour cream on the side with the soup and it went so well with the soup. Really unexpected! Sourcream on its own was really flavorful as well. Nothing like the stuff you get at Chipotle haha. Chicken w/pork Pelmini - Wesplit the Chicken Pelmini. It came with this sauce on top which actually wasn't necessary. Pelmini on their own were reallygood. I tried some with that butter that came at the beginning and it was lovely! Pelmini was really fresh and a good amount offilling inside. Very filling as a dish as well! The best part? Beef Stroganoff! Oh man! This was the best Beef Stroganoff Ihave ever had! My husband actually agreed here. We really loved this dish. Could have had two of these just on our own. Thesauce on the beef stroganoff was really amazing as well. Another part of the dish we could have just had plain. Got SautéedVeggies on the side instead of noodles or mashed potatoes and it was a good call. Really balanced out the nutrition and got ussome veggies as well. Another best part here.. Honey Cake (aka Medovik)! We were actually full with the dinner itself but assoon as we got this Honey Cake....It was gone in moment. And we wanted more! Not even kidding! This is one o Read more