Brooklyn’s Best Russian Restaurants
National Restaurant: Founded in 1978, this cavernous, flamboyantly gilded catering hall and night club was one of NYC’s first Russian restaurants. Ignore the misguided forays into Italian fare (tiramisu, shrimps over pasta), for proudly Eastern European specialties, like smoked sturgeon, red caviar with pancakes, Georgian dough knishes, and chicken Kiev.
273 Brighton Beach Ave., (718) 646-1225