Where to eat better? When designing a menu, choose dishes where foods are repeated

24.11.2021

Now life is getting faster and people are getting busier. Very often there is neither time nor desire to cook at home. Not surprisingly, many people have begun to prefer to eat in cafes. Others, on the contrary, as in the good old days, recognize only home cooking. What are the advantages and disadvantages of homemade food, and what - "public catering"?

Benefits of eating out

Salvation for those who cook for "you" Many people simply do not know how to make anything more complicated than tea. And they don't want to learn, mind you. Even more people do not like to cook at all. And is it really necessary? If you have enough money, you can eat at any restaurant that your heart desires for breakfast, lunch and dinner at least every day.

Thus, both eating in restaurants and cooking at home have advantages and disadvantages. And, as a rule, both are present in the life of a modern person. And as strange as it may seem to be a person who fundamentally ignores dinners in expensive restaurants, it is equally unreasonable for someone who does not understand the value of Sunday dinners with his family.

Employment of people only grows every year. Sometimes working days are so hard that there is simply no energy left for cooking. In such situations, catering saves. The following advantages of catering establishments are distinguished:

A rescue element for workaholics unable to cook even simple meals. The service sector is growing and constantly improving, so if finances allow, then it makes sense to use public catering.

Saving time. As a rule, catering establishments provide food preparation services as soon as possible. In addition, while the chef is busy preparing the order, you can relax, talk with the other person, discuss the weather, read a magazine or book.

Comfort. You have the chance to have a great evening, and not to stand by the stove. Cafes and restaurants offer pleasant pastime and comfortable conditions. Note that the dishes, after eating, do not have to be washed.

The opportunity to try new dishes... Cafes and restaurants are designed to provide a wide range of different national cuisines. It is not always possible to cook a new dish at home in compliance with the technology. In addition, unusual ingredients are often used.

The advantages of homemade food are:

Saving finance. Cooking homemade meals is several times cheaper than eating in public catering.

Right food. Fast food is now common. Therefore, following the principles of healthy eating is easiest at home. After all, if you pay for food, it will be very difficult psychologically to tear yourself away from it. The risk of overeating is reduced at home. The ability to control the freshness and quality of the products used. Cases when public catering establishments use low-quality products are not excluded. Such disregard for the quality of food threatens food poisoning. Note that at home, the quality and freshness of the food is completely under your control.

An unusual tradition. How much time do you spend with loved ones? How often do you discuss the events of the day? Dinner can be seen as a special ritual and enjoyable time with the family.

The products of public catering establishments have firmly established their positions. It is worth noting that both homemade food and catering dishes have their positive and negative sides, their adherents and opponents. And as the best option, this is ordering food at home. You don't have to cook your own food, which saves you a lot of time. And nevertheless, you are at home and you have time to communicate with loved ones. So we combine business with pleasure. Bon Appetit everyone!

Food is a significant item of expenditure. You have to eat outside the home for various reasons. At lunchtime, city cafes are packed with students, white collars, and tourists. But is it possible to eat a hearty meal for 200 rubles in Moscow? About inexpensive establishments with high-quality cuisine - in our material

Funky lab

A cozy gastro bar with a steampunk interior is located in the center of Moscow, near the Tretyakovskaya metro station. The creative idea of the restaurateur Alexander Viazhsky is similar to the constructor - both in terms of design and in matters of food decoration. So, borscht is served here in two plates: separately thick, separately broth. Eat it alternately or mix it up - the visitor decides. It's the same with salmon tartare and even ice cream.

The chef at Funky Lab is truly French, which is why the menu features dishes such as Burgundy beef, a variety of steaks and sauces. The "golden" time in the gastrobar is from 12:00 to 16:00. It is during these hours in the institution that you can taste an inexpensive soup of the day and a delicious budget salad for 120 rubles.

Location: st. Bolshaya Polyanka, 7/10, building 1

Working hours: from 12:00 to 00:00 seven days a week

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"Canteen No. 57"

It would seem that the time of canteens is irretrievably running out. But this is not the case with this authentic culinary establishment, where dishes are prepared exclusively according to the book of recipes for delicious and healthy food. Canteen # 57, popular among Muscovites and guests of the capital, is located in one of the most important stores in Moscow - GUM. Probably, the owners of the establishment are very generous and welcoming people, because they often organize promotions, during which you can save a lot.

In addition to traditional meat and fish dishes, the dining room has a rich vegetable, fruit, lean menu, as well as pastries to order. Themed dishes (for example, soldier-style potatoes, “Strawberry Heart” biscuit) await visitors on the days of calendar holidays. Many come here for a breath of nostalgia for the Soviet past. The cost of meals ranges from 60-80 rubles.

Location: GUM, 3rd line, 3rd floor

Working hours: from 10:00 to 22:00 daily

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"Domozhilov"

Named after brand chef Ivan Domozhilov, the original 70-seat buffet is located in the Artplay design center. Huge panoramic windows of the studio overlook Syromyatnicheskaya embankment. Instead of a menu, there is a showcase with dishes. Self-service and disposable dishes do not overshadow the rich assortment of baked goods (about 140 varieties).

Among the dishes prepared in the Art Clumba kitchen: borscht with tongue, mushroom beef stroganoff with chicken, baguette with Tambov ham, nicoise with tuna, salads, soups, cheese cakes - all at very affordable prices. Special offers in the menu can be read on the LED scrolling line.

Location: st. Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya, 10, building 2

Working hours: from 10:00 to 22:00 seven days a week

Photo: domogilov.ru

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"Cowberry"

A culinary cafe with a berry name is located in the very center of old Moscow - not far from Kitay-gorod. The menu includes inexpensive home-style dishes: herring under a fur coat, bean soup, Greek moussaka, pancakes with meat, pies, etc., which can also be ordered in a take-away container. Brusnika has a huge assortment of sweet pastries and desserts (from 60 rubles). And one of the most popular drinks is chamomile tea.

The place is also known for its well-chosen musical setting, so here you can chat and even whisper in a comfortable atmosphere.

Location: st. Maroseyka, 6-8, building 1

Working hours: from 08:00 to 23:00 seven days a week

Photo: "Cowberry"

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"Bakery and pilaf"

This Uzbek restaurant is a creative project of the young restaurateur Maxim Agashkov. Its name speaks of the dominant dishes. An inexpensive establishment with a simple, cozy interior in white and red tones, located near the Taganskaya metro station. Bestsellers: samsa, pies, chicken broth, lamb manti, lagman. But the main dish of the restaurant is pilaf, which is cooked in a huge 80-liter cauldron (for 150 servings) by Uzbek chefs. There is only one step from maximalism to minimalism: “Pastry and Pilaf” can accommodate only 12 visitors.

Location: 1st Goncharny lane, 4 \ 3

Working hours: daily from 08:30 to 22:00

Photo: Vera Mishurina

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"Marukame"

Noodles from the popular Japanese chain Marugame Seimen (whose brand dish is udon noodles with various additives) are an excellent option for a tasty and inexpensive lunch in the range of 180-200 rubles. The chain of Moscow cafes is modeled on Asian prototypes: a small hall, a separate kitchen with a distribution line connecting the locations. All dishes are cooked on the spot: from the large cauldron in which the famous thick sanuki-udon noodles are cooked, the steam is dispersed in a fog throughout the hall.

On the menu: kamaage udon (noodles with dashi broth sauce), ontama bukkake udon (noodles with soft-boiled eggs), tonkatsu udon (noodles in pork rib broth with pickled egg), etc., as well as salads and rolls.

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Slightly tired of the household stereotype to eat at home:
1. Cheaper.
2. Delicious
3. Less risk of poisoning.
4. Correct.

I don't understand quite modern, well-to-do people who have achieved a lot and ... who don't go to restaurants. They go shopping and stuff their big fridges with food and cook, cook, cook ....

Now I will smash these soviet stereotypes to smithereens.

1. Price... Eating at a restaurant is cheaper. It is a fact. I'm not talking about expensive restaurants. I'm talking about restaurants in the democratic segment near the house. And I'm not talking about large families with a grandmother in the state who cooks all day. I'm talking about modern small families for 2-3 people
Let's count. Foodcost Light Cafe 25%. Let me remind you that the Light Cafe http://lightcafe.ru is a democratic restaurant near the house, where all residents of the surrounding houses need to eat every day. 25% means that if I sold you something for 100 rubles, then it took me 25 rubles to get it.

But this is on average. Come on with examples
Coffee costs 100 rubles, the cost price is 10 rubles.
Fruit drink costs 50 rubles, the cost price is 3 rubles.
Tea costs 140 rubles, the cost price is 10 rubles.
Shawarma costs 290 rubles at a cost price of 90 rubles
Tibon steak costs 800 rubles at a cost price of 550 rubles
Beef stroganoff costs 350 rubles at a cost of 150 rubles.

Pay attention, I get super profits on drinks, on food everything is much worse. Half of the hot dishes on the menu have a food cost of 50% or even higher.

Let's assume for the sake of the purity of the experiment that the average food cost in the kitchen is 30%.
That is, a dish that is sold for 100 rubles costs me 30 rubles.

Markup hypermarkets 30% on average. This is if you take, say, the same large packages that I buy for a restaurant. Sugar in bags, cheese in 3 kg bars, meat in tons, and so on.

Let's try to buy ingredients for beef stroganoff in Okey. We will need:
1. Beef 400r per kg (300)
2. Champignons 250 rub per kg (180)
3. Bulb onions. 30 rub per kg (9)
4. Cream. 80 rub for 0.5l (60)
5. Potatoes 30 per kg (7)

I am silent about spices, butter, flour. Let's assume it is.

In brackets is the price at which I buy.
If you turn this into the cost of one serving, then I will cook beef stroganoff for 150 rubles. You are over 220 somewhere.
But there are nuances.
1. You cannot buy exactly the amount of potatoes you need. You will be left with a bunch of everything. Most of it will be thrown out. Or it will crumble somewhere, not because it is necessary, but because it does not disappear.
2. Walking around the store, you will surely collect a bunch of unnecessary things. Although okay, I will not talk about it. When you come to my restaurant, I will also gladly sell you an extra cup of coffee.

So buy Beef Stroganoff from me. For only 350 rubles.

In general, I conducted an experiment here, I decided to celebrate the New Year at home. For the first time since 2003. I celebrated all these years at work. I got 12,000 rubles for this New Year's dinner for two with drinks. AT HOME. With a bunch of cooking, dirty dishes and so on.

So do the math. Eating at a restaurant is cheaper. I have been living this way for many years. And this is not because I work in a restaurant, I eat in not only in my own. Recently, a refrigerator in my house broke down. It didn't bother me for about six months. Why do I need a refrigerator if I don't smoke?

2. Delicious.

Sometimes, an ordinary person can cook deliciously. Many even have their own specialties. But it is impossible to cook deliciously all the time. Cooking is a hell of a job. And as a result, the desire to eat at home slides into dumplings. So, of course, you can cook dumplings very tasty. And boil the kettle. But it is better to outsource the issue of power supply.
Believe me, a professional chef cooks better and tastier than you. And even your wife / grandmother / mother-in-law.
Sometimes, of course, I can change the wheel myself with a jack, in extreme cases, but more often somehow in the tire fitting ...

3. Less risk of poisoning.
Oh, those self-confident housewives. Oh, these soviet grandmothers who consider their kitchen sterile.
Do you see the rabbit? Me neither. But he is!
Violation of commodity neighborhood, ignorance of storage and cooking technologies, use of the same utensils for fish / meat / vegetables, etc. and the like. Not a single household kitchen will pass even the most purchased inspection of the SES. Unsanitary conditions, dirt, germs and something else are missing in your very clean kitchens.
I urge you to fill the refrigerator with wine and cheese, and use the stove only for the kettle.

4. Correct.
Eating at home is not right. Here are some more arguments.
- At home, you have no control over the portion size and eat much more. Hence the problem with being overweight.
- Eating at home and buying groceries in the hypermarket, you support big business and the stratification of society into rich and poor. I ate in a restaurant - I supported a small business. And Small Business is the backbone of the economy.
Eating at home, your family spends too much time buying, storing and cooking. The most irreplaceable resource is time.
- Eating at home is not romantic. Well, we are adults, eating at home is the way to everyday life and sex once a month.
- Eating at home - spend 30 minutes a day washing dishes. There are things an order of magnitude higher.

Dear restaurant guests. Yes, not everything is going smoothly in our restaurants. In general, this business is only 20 years old in our country. We (restaurateurs) ourselves do not know much. I admit that sometimes we also forget about some moments. I admit, we sometimes squint on trifles.

But we are growing. New restaurants open every day. They are more and more interesting, technologically advanced, and more diverse.

Help us. Scold us. Write reviews. Demand quality. And everything will be Ha-ra-sho in our restaurant business.

In the meantime, throw all this food out of the refrigerator and urgently find yourself a restaurant near your house. To just eat there every day. Such as Light Cafe. Meet the owner and the chef there. Take a look into the kitchen. Become a friend of the restaurant. Try it. You'll like it.

As you know, sea air quickly stimulates appetite. So we, the holidaymakers, have a painful question: "Where would you like to have a bite now?" I must say that the resorts do not know the lack of catering establishments: cafes, canteens, sushi bars, restaurants dot the entire beach line and almost every side street. Another thing is to choose a good restaurant where you can have a delicious lunch without risking your own health. After all, no one wants to get sick while on vacation.

Where to eat?

Let's first decide where you will live - in a hotel, boarding house, guest house or in an apartment. As a rule, many hotels on the Black Sea coast of Russia operate on the “all-inclusive” system.

Pensions and sanatoriums can provide 3 meals a day, however, it does not differ in variety. You can order breakfast in guest houses, but if you have your own kitchen, it will be cheaper to cook yourself. Well, in the case of apartments, everything is clear.

Canteen of the "Military Sanatorium" "in Adler

Dining room at the sanatorium "Anapa"

By answering the previous question, you can understand: are you looking for a place for regular meals or for temporary snacks and “gastronomic pleasures”.

Markets, shops

The homemade food, although not so sophisticated in its performance, is always fresh and tasty.

If you have all the conditions for cooking and some free time, this will be the best option for your vacation. Especially if you also have children with you.

Regarding food prices, you will spend the most on food in Sochi. Also remember that the prices of fruits and vegetables in the markets usually fall in the evening.

Apples, peaches, melon (1 kg) - from 50 to 100 rubles;

Watermelon (1 kg) - from 12 to 15 rubles;

Bread - from 16 to 21 rubles;

Milk - from 30 to 50 rubles;

Cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers - from 30 to 100 rubles;

Meat (1 kg) - from 150 to 150 rubles;

Fish (1 kg) - from 60 to 350 rubles;

Wine (0.7 l) - from 200 to 1000 rubles;

Juice (1 l) - from 30 to 60 rubles.

Beach food

Kebabs, shawarma, dried fish, baklava, tubes with condensed milk, fruits with cream - all this is so appetizing, but not safe for the digestive tract. In the summer heat and unsanitary conditions, which are always the case in resorts, such food quickly grows bacteria, leading to inevitable poisoning. And the initial quality of the products is in great doubt. Of course, everything can be fine, but it's kind of a lottery - lucky / unlucky.

Canteens

So, if you want to eat regularly, then canteens are suitable for you, since the prices in them are quite affordable, and the menu is very diverse. However, not all! You can conduct your own mini-investigation: go to all nearby catering establishments, look at the conditions (cleanliness, order, neatness of the waiters), the variety of dishes, also do not hesitate to ask the same holiday-makers who eat there what they think about the taste of the cooked food.

Local residents can give a good hint about where to eat. The more objective information you collect, the more likely your stomach will be in perfect order after eating.

Some of them cook "" conscientiously "

Lunch in the dining room (salad, first, second, drink) - from 150 to 300 rubles.

Cafes, sushi bars in the Black Sea resorts

Regular meals in a cafe will cost significantly more. So this option is good for having lunch or treat yourself to some desserts several times.

It should be understood that not all establishments of this kind are checked by the sanitary and epidemiological station. Always pay attention to the presence of a consumer corner where business information should be presented. If this is not the case, it is better to refrain from visiting such an institution.

Cafe "Breeze" on the Primorskaya embankment in Sochi

On average, breakfast will cost 150 - 200 rubles., lunch (salad, first, main course, drink) - from 300 to 400 rubles., dinner (no alcohol) - from 500 p. and higher.

Menu in the Sochi cafe "Boobs" with prices

Restaurants

As a rule, a "trip" to a restaurant in a resort town will cost you a pretty penny. But high prices do not always guarantee high quality. So be on the lookout. If you feel mixed feelings about the quality of the food prepared, do not hesitate to call the administrator and tell him about your complaints.

It is impossible to give any specific prices for food in restaurants. They depend on the pretentiousness of the establishment. If we talk about food in democratic hotel restaurants, then, on average, a set lunch will cost 550-600 rub., and dinner - 450 - 700 rubles... (alcohol-free). This is the average bill without alcoholic beverages.