Russian Vodka Room

This quirky restaurant offers tours of its in-house vodka museum (charting everything from the first vodka recipe to modern-day branding) and short vodka tastings. The dining room itself is bright with arched ceilings and draped velvet curtains and a choice of quiet booths and round tables that are often filled with groups of tourists. The large menu offers largely Russian dishes including the ominous sounding “meat and fish carousel,” salo (Russian salt pork with bread and mustard), rassolnik (giblets and dill pickle soup) and sharing platters of small dishes.