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Russian Banquet Menu      Printable View

(can be ordered for the minimum of 50 guests)

Classic Package

$65.25 plus tax and gratuity

Dessert Assortment served family-style is included

Choose below:
6 items from cold meat zakuski,
4 items from cold seafood zakuski,
10 items from cold vegetarian zakuski,
3 items from hot zakuski,
1 Individual or 1 Family Style Entrée.

Additional items will be charged at a la carte prices.

Add a preset Dessert Menu at $12 per person, which includes:

4 mini-pastries per person

Chocolate-covered strawberries (one per person)

A three-tier wedding-style cake

Fresh Fruit Ikebana

Your Sweet Table will elegantly set-up with candelabras, drapery and elevations.



Pricing Notes:

  • Prices charged are for food only and do not include sales tax (9.75%) and 18% Servers' gratuity on top of food and beverage purchases. Kitchen labor cost  is included in the price and  includes delivery, food plating and  kitchen clean-up.
  • Tableservice  Soft Drinks (Coke and Seltzer) - $2.00 per guest. Juice (Cranberry or Orange) - $2.50 per guest. Tea and Coffee service - $1.75 per guest. Jewel of Russia Classic or Cranberry - $75.00 per bottle.  Bar Mixers and garnish - -$2.00 per person. Customer may provide all liquor for the event at $2 per person corkage fee.
  • Russian Tea Time can provide our own china, glassware, silverware for  $6.00 per guest for handling, washing and loading labor - it is not a rental fee.  On average, this option saves clients $10.00 per person if they had to rent from regular party rental.  If other equipment is required, client will pay for additonal rental charges. 

Standard Menu

 Cold Meat Zakuski   - 2.75 each

(Additional a la carte item - $2.75 per person)

Basturma Meat – sliced

Buzhenina

Beef Carpaccio, shaved assiago cheese, virgin olive oil

Liver Pate in Martini Glasses

Chicken Breast Roulade, stuffed with spinach

Salad - Classic Olivier

Smoked Duck Breast

Stuffed Chicken Roulade

Beef Tongue Salad with mayonnaise and garlic

Beef Tongue - boiled, with garlic and dill, sliced

Blinchiki with Meat

Steak Tartar

Smoked Chicken Breast with pickled onions

Whole Roast Duck with mini apples

Kielbasa with mustard and horseradish

Hungarian Beef kosher Salami with mustard and horseradish

 

 Cold Seafood Zakuski - 2.75 each

(Additional a la carte item - $2.75 per person)

"Herring under Blanket" Salad

Crab Salad with mayonnaise

Crab and Octopus salad with Mesclun Greens

Red Caviar with sour crème, and crepes

Salmon Tartare in martini glass

Shrimp, medium size, served over martini glasses, with cocktail sauce (2 per person, add $2.00)

Smoked Salmon with garnish

Smoked Trout with chive cream

Seared Tuna with cucumbers and wasabi (add $2.00 per person)

Peppered Tuna Carpaccio, lemon, capers & olive oil

 

 Cold Vegetarian Zakuski  - 1.95 each

(Additional a la carte item - $1.95 per person)

Diced Cabbage slaw with apples - fantastic!

Marinated Button Mushrooms

Marinated Eggplant

Marinated Red Peppers

Marinated Roman Tomatoes

Marinated Russian Pickles

Sininkie – Eggplant Caviar (garlicky, similar to Baba Ganouj)

Beet Caviar – Buriakovaya Ikra

Asparagus, grilled, chilled, with parmesan cheese flakes

Eggplant Orientale - Baklazhannaya Ikra

Mesclun Mix Salad with goat and feta cheese, tossed in balsamic vinaigrette

Vine Ripened Beefsteak Tomatoes, mozzarella & basil drizzled with virgin olive oil

Russian Garden Salad - tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, dill, touch of oil

Cherry Tomato Basil salad in extra virgin olive oil

Freshly cut vegetables, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, chives

Taboulie Salad

Tashkent Carrot Salad - our signature

Vinaigrette Salad

Potato and Sauerkraut Salad

Caesar Salad

Greek Salad - tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese, olives, red onions, red wine vinaigrette

 

 Hot Appetizers  - 3.00 each

(Additional a la carte item - $3.00 per person)

Boiled Young Red Potatoes with butter, garlic and dill – served hot as soon as guests sit down to eat

Sweet and Sour Meatballs

Pelmeni 3 pp

Oven Roasted Potatoes

Stuffed Mushrooms with spinach and goat cheese

Uzbek Fried Chebureki

Vareniki 3pp

Blinchiki wth Meat

Mushroom Blinchiki

Pumpkin Piroshkis - served individually

Lulie Kebob with thinly sliced onions

Mushroom Zhulienne Classic

Grilled Quails 1 per person (add $4.50 per person)

Mini Chicken Samsa

Seared Foie Gras (add $7.00 per person)

Short Ribs "Zharkoe" (add $4.00 per person)

 

 CHOICE OF ENTRÉE: Served Individually or Family Style - $22.00

(All entries served with starch and vegetables)

Individual Entree Option

Chicken Kebob

Combination: White Fish and Filet Mignon

Cornish Hen Tapaka

Roasted Quail a la Galitsin, de-boned, stuffed with ground chicken breast

White Fish, baked with peppers and onions

Combination: Chicken Kebob and Lamb Chops (1)

Baked Salmon with citrus butter sauce

Pelmeni - Classic Siberian 18 pcs.

Filet Mignon, 10 oz.(Additional  $4.00 per person)

Chillean See Bass  (Additional  $8.00 per person)

Lamb Chops, 3 double cut with pomegranate sauce(Additional  $8.00 per person)

Pork Cutlets "Kotlety po-russki"

Braised Lamb Shank

 

Family Style Option #1 

Filet Mignon, Pelmeni/Vareniky, Salmon, Pozharsky Kotlety,  Chicken Kebob

 

Family Style Option #2

Filet Mignon, Lamb Chop, Stuffed Quail, Chicken Tapaka, Salmon, Chicken Kebob (Add $8.00)


 

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