2/ 3 Summer 2022, Seafood, Red Wine, Mediterranean Cuisine

The 2022 summer goes on and is about to culminate as at August 1, 2022 and so does my summer-mode eating out, cafe culture style, preferably at somebody else's expense in this case something straight out of the Mediterranean cuisine play book.

 

Mediterranean cuisine dishes, including specifically those from Italian cuisine, are good to enjoy in summer time.

 

Enter an Italian-style lunch at a faux Italian-styled eatery here in Moscow, on one of the main thoroughfares in Moscow - Lenindgradskoye shosse.

Here is my photo reportage.

 What was had:

Seafood salad, including mussels.

Pasta - something called Spaghetti Al Pomodoro.

Two glasses of red wine, to wash everything down. Or wherever.

Two 150 gr glasses of red wine, something called:

Montepulciano D'Abruzzo, dry red 

Terre Allegre, semi-sweet

Nice drinkable wine but nothing too memorable.

Some collateral views, the rest room at the place

Street cafe seating view

About RUB 2 thou

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More Summery Beer: Pilsner Urquell

 In more beer this summer had some cans of Pilsner Urquell.

I know it's very highly thought of, however don't get what the fuss is all about, yes, it's nice enough and better than most of the mass-market swill beer but that's about all.

Still it was not unwelcome for a beer lunch on a hot July day in the country out of Moscow.

Dao Dezi World Mix 1994 Deep Forest

rare!

Watch of day: Kamasu LE

 Watch of the day yesterday:

Just my Kamasu LE

MOP dial

Sakhalin Fine De Claire No. 3s for Lunch

Today lunched on some Sakhalin Fine De Claire No. 3 oysters at a restaurant on the Old Arbat, here in Moscow.

Supposed to be straight from far eastern island of Sakhalin.

Sakhalin is no France but it can be only for the better as the sea is definitely much clearer off Sakhalin than the euro sewage waters off the French coast... unless oysters prefer the latter to feed on but I really don't know, not an expert on oysters.

Felt nice and fresh enough and tasty in a subtle way but small and not much flesh but that's true to type.

Collateral views.

Gelato Lunch

The weather has been about 30C for the past three weeks here in Moscow, also sticky of late, as in humid, so gelato lunch always seems a good idea under such circumstances.

 

Three balls of gelato aka ice-cream, a plastic bottle of mineral water and a large coffee consumed slowly and mindfully by the side of a rather quiet road watching cars and occasional people passing by thinking about nothing in particular.

 

In Beer: Summery Beer

 Some summery beer which par for the course in summer, of course

Soapbox photos: Summery Beer:  Some summery beer

Duran Duran - "TONIGHT UNITED" [Visualizer]

Tonight and every night.



Live 

 

 Is this new from Duran x 2?

Urban View

 Another urban view of something or other in Moscow.

Soapbox photos: Urban:  Another urban something or other in Moscow.

Beer Appreciation: Westmalle Dubbel

In more beer appreciation and beer photography, on a hot day, a couple of bottles of cool beer won't go amiss, even if it's dark.

Although dark beer is not the most obvious choice for a hot 30+ day, it can be done if the beer is good and Westmalle beer is at least above average, seeing as it is one of the renowned trappist, or monastic, breweries, with Westmalle Tripel consistently in top beers though this one is Dubbel.

Here is another beer lover... or is he a snack?

Nice, if nothing particularly special, but pleasant effects after two bottles and way better than mass market beers.

Пить можно, хорошее темное, но в целом ничего сногсшибательного.

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