Cafe Leto

FINALLY!! We have discovered a good restuarant with awesome food! Today, we had the two best meals of our entire trip to date. We were told of a cafe just down the street called Cafe Leto--meaning "summer." It's kind of a cool chick art deco kind of place. Very pastel colors, orange and lime with bizarre light fixtures and chairs. Anyway, they serve the "expensive looking large plate, small portion with lots of decorations made of bizarre garnishy things" meals. The plates look like they deserve a professional taste-tester to write a newspaper article about them. But the prices are pretty reasonable. They also have a non-smoking section...its the only one in all of Russia.

We liked it so much for lunch that we went back again for dinner. We had the same waitress who doesn't speak a single word of english...so ordering was fun. We played charades. For lunch Brandy had vegetable soup and some sort of hot summer tea (with cowberries, yes...cowberries) and I had fried halibut on a potato puré. For dinner I had halibut on a broccoli cloud (really, it was very delicious) and Brandy had fettuccini on chicken. Really, this was bizzarre but very yummy. The chicken was compressed to about an eighth inch thick like a thin pancake and as wide as the plate. It was very cool looking...but admittedly, we were not sure what it was at first.
So for all you future adoptive parents who are coming to Murmansk, Russia....it's on the corner of Lenin and Kap. Egorov streets...lime green building! Can't miss it.

We'll see you there!