Concept

The Ragout Café and Bar is a project, launched by Alexey Zimin, Katya Drozdova, Semen Krymov and Ilya Shalev. Each of them had brought their own unique talent, view and understanding of today’s tendency in the gastronomy industry.

Each of us wanted to create a place with reasonable, down earth prices and to put a bit more thought and effort, then it is a usual case of a Moscow local eatery. We tried to put that in actual, practical manner and to see how that will work. We always wanted to deal with most versatile, but inexpensive produce, so we went out to meet up with local meat producers, fishmongers and farmers, carefully choosing the best available from what they had to offer. We thought of using most natural ingredients we could find around, literally trying to use the treasures, lying under our feet. We wanted to keep the prices down by making a “non commercial” wine list. In general, the direction we took was some sort of mixture between French “bistrot” and British gastropub: all fresh, innovating, but not expensive.

The concept of our menu lies somewhere in the core of the new cooking movement—the Bistronomy—a culinary trending, whose slogan is: FINE DINING AT REASONABLE PRICE. On that idea, with no attempt to undermine it or recreate something new, we simply add (the best we could) the experience of great French cuisine and those chefs, who worked before us and passed on us their passion, technique and love. And so, as we are here in the rest of the world, professionals, amateurs and simple lovers of food, all of us bowing and pulling our hats (or toques) in honor of that great tradition.

In short we wanted to create some fun place, where anyone, regardless of their income, could come, have some bite and maybe to move on to have even more fun dancing or drinking elsewhere, thinking of us, that the beginning of that evening was really nice!

Now all are welcome to come and see by themselves what had happened.