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I love their piroshkis! I've had the cabbage one and my hubby had the meat one which he really seemed to enjoy. For $2, you get what looks like just a long piece of fried dough, but inside it is filled with yummy, savory fillings (cheese, veggie, or meat). The cabbage inside my piroshki was tangy with a hint of sweetness, and the bread was soft, chewy and oh so good (I could just eat the dough by itself).
But if piroshkis aren't your thing, they do have many other things: breads, cakes, apple and cherry pastries, cookies, blintzes....list goes on and on (and all range from around $1.80-$6). I had a sweet cheese filled pastry which was good, but I thought the cheese filling was just a bit too salty. Their apple pastries are flaky and have the right amount of gooey apple filling without being overly sweet. I also tried part of a cake roll (vanilla cake with whipped cream in the center, $5.90 per pound) that was so simple but so very tasty.
What a great little bakery!!
I've only ever gotten their pastries, donuts, cake slices, meat piroshkis, and cookies; each one has been delicious. I recommend the apple and cherry pastries with the powdered sugar on top. They're so flaky and good! I still have yet to try their breads or savory food that's not in a pastry. Everything is relatively cheap and tasty so for now they get a good 4 stars.
My only complaint is that there seems to be a few different kinds of bugs buzzing around whenever I go in but I guess that can't always be avoided.
It had been around a few years since I tried a Piroshki so I first went to Gastronom - another Russian place and had one of theirs, but Gastronom's must be a healthier version (?) since it seemed like it was baked. Moscow & Tbilisi Bakery's Piroshki is what I remember a Piroshki to be. Much greasier (as in the brown paper bag it comes in will end up being soaked from the oil). Don't know if it was because of that fact in particular, but honestly, these were much tastier than Gastronom's.
I tried the Cabbage and Meat Piroshkis, and they were $2 each. The meat Piroshki from Gastronom was dry and had a shredded consistency to it. . . I was honestly utterly confused and a bit let down when I tried theirs - I didn't remember a Piroshki tasting like that at all. . . But the one from Moscow & Tbilisi's Bakery was more flavorful and had diced onions in it.
I recommend this place if you're looking to try a Piroshki. Next time I go there, I would love to try some of the other items like their blintzes and eclairs. Was a bit inconvenient for me in terms of location, but if you're craving a Piroshki and have the time to stop by 20th Ave/Geary, then it'll definitely be worth your time.
Popped in here as I was in the area and hadn't eaten yet since last night (dinner - yeaaa... I know what time it is and how long it's been) and decided to get a piroshki, which I love here and they are so cheap. Well, it's been a few months and noticed the price has popped up to $2 each for its potato, mushroom, meat and cabbage piroshkis, BUT still an awesome price!!! YummmmmmY!!
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No frills - just yum. Had an almond horn and a cream horn. I wish the cream that was in the cream horn was in the almond horn. The almond horn filling was just way too sweet. That said - I still enjoyed it. Enjoyed the cream horn more, though.
The staff behind the counter (Asian) were nice and helpful when I went.
The best piroskies ever & only $2 each! Each one is size comparable to a burrito!
o very many tasty things!!! I had a marvelous cheese blintz, and they had some amazing looking meringues. So many options and I wish we could've gotten more but we were in a rush. Will definitely return here!
Eric E. said it best:
"I love a no-frills, no bullshit bakery like this."
SF is full of frilly bullshit bakeries. The transplants and the posers love 'em, but old-school San Franciscans of 33+ years like myself despise all their evil new gentrified crap.
Moscow & Tbilisi keeps it real. My TA for 20th Century Russian Literary Masterpieces was from Tbilisi and, while hipping me to Boulgakov and Babel and a feminist perspective of Sergei Eisenstein's "Oktober", she didn't mention squat about Russian/Georgian baked goods.
Damn you Natasha. You should have told me all those years ago! :)
Like Eric, I also got an eclair, and it was made pretty good. I'm a French patisserie snob, but this one tasted right and was creamy as heck. I have a few friends in the Richmond that asked me to pick up some other unpronounceable items.
Let me just say that I will be back for more.
When the "Lady K" and I are hungry (when are we not?) we tend to take the short walk from home to Moscow & Tbilsi Bakery for a piroski. They are always fresh and the service is always with a smile!
They are so good. I'm not even going to tell you my fellow Yelpers which kind to get as I have had them all and they are all so delicious I dont even have a favorite. Enjoy!
I love a no-frills, no bullshit bakery like this. They have a superb selection of pastries I've never heard of before--probably because I can't remember ever setting foot in a Russian bakery before.
They make a cake called "Bird Milk" which sounds intriguing and frightening all at once, and reminds me of a song Eartha Kitt performed, Uska Dara, where she purrs, "I like to feed my lover...bird's milk!"
Rather than try something new, I wimped out and got an eclair. (I know, who goes to a Russian bakery and gets a fucking eclair??) . But you know what? It was creamy and damn good. The woman behind the counter even packed it up in a little pink box which triggered a nostalgic flashback to Donut Day in first grade. Good things come in pink boxes. Always.
I like Moscow & Tbilisi Bakery, and will be back...I might even grow a pair and try something new. Maybe.
Piroski's are the best here. I always wrap it with a thick paper towel to soak up some of that grease before eating it. I don't mind the extra trouble. Really. Do get the meat and the spinach.
The Blini's are great for a snack or a meal, depending on your appetite. Get the meat and ask them to heat it up for you. They're cool like that. The sweet cheese is not really my thing, but the eclairs are! They are usually bursting with custard and covered in a thick ribbon of rich chocolate. I love it!
Best bakery in the Outer Rich.
Hands down they got some of the best piroshkie's I've ever tasted.
They also have some really good white bread. A nice big puffy fresh loaf of bread is what it is! I'm still curious what their other things taste like. I'm sure it's just as awesome as the thing's I've tried there.
MmmmmMmmMmmMm PIROSHKIS are so good!
My mom has been buying Piroshki's from here since I was a little kid. I don't think shes ever bought one that wasn't on point! They are sooooo good!
The Piroshki's are only 2 bucks and are really big at that. They are even good the next day when you warm them up. I like the meat spinach and potato one...
Lots and lots and lots of pastries and sweets! Also available are huge, deep-fried pirozhki and chebureki, hachapuri, freshly baked bread and buttery cakes. They also have a selection of salads in the opposite case which I've never tried but am a little curios.
During Easter they sell paskha cakes - sweet if you celebrate but are too lazy to bake your own.
There used to be asian women working here that spoke Russian and acted Russian and served me Russian piroshkis.
Hawwwt.
*one time I did find a spider in my piroshki though.
Moscow & Tbilisi offers really really really tasty Jewish Rye bread (and fresh).
Spasiba :)
I'm afraid that I never actually got to taste the food here, but while waiting in line I saw one of those little cockroaches crawl from a hole in a pink meringue and enter the hole of a yellow one. My eyes boggled and I just left... speechless.
The food may be great, but it's not worth the protein surprise.
Probably the worst meringues ever made; they cost $1.50 each and all you get is a piece of undercooked, flavorless, and artificially colored Styrofoam.Their chalah is OK, if you get it when it's fresh out of the oven; that's about the only good thing these guys make.
Most of their desserts (tarts, eclairs) are made with sub par recipes, and can't compare quality wise with other dessert bakeries in the city like La Boulange. This place is -maybe- comparable to the bakery at Safeway, except with much higher prices. The piroshkis are rarely fresh, and if you ask them when they were made they'll lie and tell you that "they just came out of the oven 90 minutes ago", then they put one in a bag for you and it tastes like it's been sitting in the refrigerator for 2 days.
3.5 Stars
I've always got the piroshkis. Yum. It's quite greasy though, but the meat one is awesome. The bread texture reminds me of the fried chinese "dough nuts."
I was a Russophile in college - I took (and aced) Russian language class, and also took (and aced) a Russian Literature class. So I started exploring Russian food...and discovered on a chilly night, some of the best comfort food I'd ever had was golubtsy (stuffed cabbage rolls) and borscht (beet soup), courtesy of my Russian ex. Russian food is hearty and comforting, and I learned how to make many of these dishes. However, the one thing I could never master happens to be my favorite Russian food in the entire world:
PIROSHKI!!
I have been searching for piroshki all over, and prior to my visit here, I had only seen those premade, packaged piroshki that they sell at convenience stores and the like. I had heard such good things about this bakery, and I was definitely not disappointed.
PILES of $2 piroshki: mushroom, cheese, meat, or potato...a little bit greasy (they are best straight out of the fryer and blotted), but they are really delicious - and VERY filling.
They also have loads of other sweet and savory goods, like blini and cheese pastries, and on the other side there's a deli case, featuring salads and veggie dishes along with quart size containers of borscht. Since I am pretty out of practice on the Russian cooking, I think I will be making some frequent trips here during the winter months.
Every time I head out to this part of the Richmond I find myself stopping here regardless of what I originally went for.
The Russian and Georgian sides are actually separate businesses, the Georgian side accepts credit but the Russian side is cash only. Both get five stars though.
The Russian side has a bunch of piroshkis for $2 each, my favorite is the meat one which has seasoned hamburger. It's bread stuffed with a generous amount of stuff then deep fried. They also have potato, mushroom, cheese and cabbage. Then they have more pastries than you could possibly consume in a year, most of which are like $1.25-$1.80 ~ ballpark.
Now the Georgian side, that would probably get 6 stars if I could. I usually can't decide what to get so I end up spending at least $20 on some combination of shuba (beet/potato/carrot/smoked salmon cake with cream and dill on top), Katchapuri (cheese pie in a pastry shell - the square one is better than the circle one but both are good), khashi (tripe and kidney fat soup, the nice lady explained that you must put salt and crushed garlic on your plate while eating this...I did and it was such good advice), borscht, carrot w/ walnuts, liver pate, and/or a few kebabs w/ hot sauce. Damn I could buy out that entire side.
This is a very unique Russian specialty bakery. There are so many items to choose from. And the prices are reasonable.
I go for their Piroshki's. My favorite are the beef, although they have a good variety to choose from. And they're huge!! Only drawback is they're greasy.
I haven't tried other items. Well, not yet. They all look good. I'll pass on the sweets, and rather go for meat-filled items or similar. I need a Russian friend to explain all the items. Will visit again for a review update.
Truly an unexpected gem. I sampled the cabbage piroshki, the cheese piroshki, and a donut my boyfriend got. I'm not typically into jelly donuts, but the perfect doughiness of this one was supreme and not overly sweet.
Same with the piroshki. The dough has such a perfect texture and is slightly crispy on the very outside. The cabbage was my favorite (of the two)--perfectly seasoned and delicate.
I'll definitely be back to try more of these goodies that would be easy to miss from the humble storefront. I'm bringing some to my mom via airplane tomorrow.
When my dad was at the Kaiser Hospitals, two summers ago, I ventured into this place and have been returning ever since. It's a small space with sweets and breads on one side and side dishes on the other. The bakery side is always busy, but I have yet to see anyone buy from the other side, which has helpful signs describing the salads, such as "beets and mayonaise" or "cauliflower salad".
When you walk in, there is a huge stack of meringues and I always say I will get one this time, but never do. This visit was no exception. There are plenty of hamintashin, piroshkis, and cookies, but the items that take over my imagination are in the back: napoleons and multi-layer cakes. This afternoon, we got two cream horns, two strawberry napoleons, two "bird" cakes, two cigar cookies, two mushroom piroshkis and a few other things I think Dr. R. threw in for good measure. I don't know why we got two of everything, we end up splitting them, but I guess this way there are extras for several days.
A word about the piroshkis, they are delicious, but they have tons of oil. If you are an oil-a-phobe or one of those "fried-foods-never-touch-my-lips" sorts of persons, I would suggest that you steer way clear of these puppies. However, if you are up for the occasional fried food, you will be licking your lips and wiping your fingers after having a savory oil-fueled moment. They are like Russian stuffed Navajo Fry-bread.... mmmmmmmn!!!! If it is not too busy and you want to eat it there, the Russian-speaking Asian-looking server will willingly offer to warm it up for you. She is very nice and has a very sweet smile.
The multi-layered cakes can be super sweet and they can be medium sweet. The bird cakes have a hazelnut flavored-cake, topped with chocolate and layered with hazelnut-flavored cream.
Even though Dr. R. is convinced that Persians invented the napoleon, here they have perfected it. Sweet and not-too-sweet, this is the perfect accompaniment to the espresso coffee made from the new machine you got for Christmas!
When you are at the Russian Bakery, you are only about ten blocks from the Sutro Park. This is always a great place to walk off those surplus calories!
The only bakeries I've ever come in contact with are the Chinese bakeries. The BBQ pork buns, hot dog buns, bacon and corn buns... man the VARIETIES... thats what i grew up on, but few weeks ago I was very interested in leaving the Chinese side of me, and get into the Russian side of me(I do drive a Russian BMW LOL!) hahahaha... the only thing i know about Russian food is borstch(spelling?) and poroshki's (spelling?). Being the Russian food guru I am.. i ordered a meat/mushroom poroshki! WOW IT WAS GOOD! It was warm, and deep fried! What can't be good about this? They had these awesome looking baked goods inside that I wanted to try, but i was too stuffed from lunch. Maybe next time.
Definitely good poroshki's though!
Make sure and pull the door (don't push when entering) otherwise you'll hear a load screechy noise and your service may not be as good. Other than that, this place is just like a trip to grandma's house. I don't have this same feeling with too many other places on earth. The meat and cheese blintzes are delicate and precisely the way they've been made for the last 200 years; the counter person can heat them up for on-the-spot sustenance. The guy/lady on the counter opposite the baked goods sells a mighty swell borscht. They also have a mushroom barley soup, and all types of great dishes that I am only beginning to discover, like a beet and walnut pâté and a salmon, dill and cream cheese pâté. Oh yeah, if you own this place: please use a tad less salt in the borscht.
Russian pastries to the left and Georgian prepared foods to the right. Everything about this place is old school, from he prices, to the decor, to the characters you might see in here. They have not one, but two antique bread slicing machines. Hell, I give them an extra star just for that. I would suggest a piroshki (potato, cheese, mushroom, or meat) and some tasty mushroom soup.
Tip: Get at least one "horn" pastry for that sweet tooth..
The Potato Piroshki's here are amazing.
The Cherbuka's even better. These things have ground beef and onions and taste like a white castle hamburger.
but nothing...and I mean nothing tops the Almond Horns. One bite of this and I go into this foodgasmic dance/walk.
It's very easy to come in here and buy a bunch of delicious stuff and the nice thing is that it won't cost you a fortune.
I had piroshkys yesterday for the first time when a friend came in from out of town. We ordered an abundant order of mushroom piroshkys for her to take on her travels and let me tell you...YUM. Another new cuisine for me to explore. This place is cheap and good and from what i can tell pretty authentic. 1 pirosky= $2. A trek worthwhile.
This is now a neighborhood bakery for me and I love it. I had been here once before years ago and since then have always wanted to go back but never found a reason to stop. Now it is in walking distance, which is actually about 6 Richmond blocks which is more like 12 regular blocks, but this is good because I am going to need to walk off all the extra calories.
My little one wanted a snack and we were out running errands, setting up house in our new place and I stopped here. We got an apricot hamintashen and a big round bun filled with what the lady said was cottage cheese and golden raisins but tasted more like delicious cheese cake!
The cookie was okay but the bun was sooo good. I want to go back and try the piroshkies and a sampling of their many other offerings!
The first thing you see when you walk in is a mountain of the most beautiful and colorful meringues. I would love to through a tea party with mountains of those piled all over the room on every surface! They are so whimsical.
The other items I would like to try are the various poppy seed filled items. I got hooked on poppy pastries when I was in Buddha-pest years ago and when ever I find them I want them!
I must go back!
This place used to satisfy my penchant for greasy goodness - I'm fond of the meat blintzes, meat piroshkis and cheese piroshkis. The meat items are ground beef (I think I hope I'm pretty damn sure) sauteed with onion, and the cheese in the piroshkis seems to be some type of queso fresco variety (the Russian name for which I haven't a clue).
Once upon a time I liked the fact that the grease would just ooze through the paper and get my fingers all messy, but my body isn't really down with it so much lately so I don't frequent the place as much as I did. However, I'll get their fresh baked bread and if it's one of the rare times I'm in the mood for something sweet I'll get a slice of cake or an eclair.
$2 Piroshki.
Cheap, long, greasy and filled with cabbage.
Just like me.
Do you know what these are?
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Neither do I. Aren't Russian people weird?
Upon entry, I was immediately confused by all the bright colors, so I bought the first brown looking thing I saw.
It was called a "Piroshki" pronounced "Pee rosh Kee" (according to myself).
For $2, you get a big slab of greasy dough with stuff inside like meat or cabbage. I got some kind of mushroom and egg mixture. It was tasty.
After a speedy consumption, I felt it sitting at the bottom of my stomach like a baby.
Like a fat, greasy, beer sucking baby. This could be disturbing if you aren't drinking beer, or if you felt it kicking, but otherwise this works out well.
I will return.
i freaking love their piroshkis. savory potato doughnut. fresh fresh fresh yummy rye breads. mother in law cake slices, those triangle things with poppy seeds galore. mini loafs. you have to try this place. it is one of the businesses that makes the outer richmond unique and a destination for soul food of the world.
the other side of the bakery is some sort of deli that i am curious about, but have not tried as there is rarely anyone manning the counter and they are a separate business from the bakery.
So my friends came up with an adventurous idea to jet around sf and taste what our city's bakeries and sweet shops have to offer. our first stop...russia. (Palin may see russia from her backyard.... but I can taste it)
Had the potato piroshki and it was great... cus i love potatoes! (reminded me of chinese donuts and other chinese bakery goods) can wait to head back to try more savory treats.
Walked by this place a hundred times and finally stopped in today. I sort of thought they'd scoff at me for not ordering in Russian. I wish I hadn't been so stupid, because I've been missing out on amazing baked goods for too long.
Got some little bread/poppy seed concoction for under $2. It was great. I've heard the Piroshkis are good, so I hope to check that out soon. And the pieces of cake to the right of the register.. wow... maybe one day if I feel like I really need some cake. Looks absolutely amazing.
Great tasting baked goods. Very low prices. It's a winner.
The last time I remember eating a piroshki was back in middle school where they had the beef and cheese frozen ones in the "beanery".
I always drive by this bakery when i go to my favorite Gordo's. So I decided to stop in and asked if they have piroskis? The lady looked at me like I had 3 eyes. "OF COURSE WE DO!"
They don't have a beef and cheese like I wanted. They have 4 different kinds: Beef, Potato, Cheese & Veggie (Cabbage). I tried the Potato and Beef. Not the typical round piroshkis like I've had before. They are greasy and they are delicious! I've heard good things about Paramount also, so I need to check them out soon!
Great artery clogging piroshkis. The meat filling with onion is by far my favorite. The potato is much too filling. It has a good flavor but it's just too much going on between all the potato and the fried dough. I also like the small blinis. There is a meat and a sweet cheese with golden raisins in it. I'm not a fan of raisins but there are never too many. I also come for the poppy seed pastries as it's the closest I can find to anything my grandmother used to make.
Just don't go expecting particularly friendly customer service. Being half polish I think most of them look at me and assume I'm about to speak Russian and then any chance of friendly service disappears when I order in english.
One star reserved for my all-time favorite long closed House of Piroshki on 9th Avenue.
FYI...cash only
Napolean was stale....but they have a big selection of sweets. I suggest you ask what is fresh...although I dunno if that will piss them off.
I can't give below a 3 since my BF is Russian.
FYI - they only take cash.
Some of the best food value in the city. The store is split into two sides, one Russian, one Georgian. The Russian side has great blintzes, as well as meat pirozhki ($2). You can also get a slice of Napoleon for 2.50, soooo good. The Georgian side has great salads, and stuffed vegetables. The best is eggplant stuffed with garlic and walnuts. I've been here at least twenty times, and yet to be disappointed.
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