Its menu is full of Russian delicacies, such as herring, caviar, borsch, pelmeni, salmon, vodka, and others. The bathhouse also offers a private experience they proudly call the ‘Private Banya ...

Moscow - The bath house, or "banya," no less than the vodka bottle, has been a cornerstone of Russian life for centuries - a place for letting off steam, as well as soaking it in, among friends and ...

Often, it is said, this includes vodka. I personally have ... This is the traditional "banya venik" ritual (venik basically means "broom" in Russian). Tamara encouragingly tells me: "it's not ...

The "banya," or Russian bath house ... A cup of tea or a shot of vodka are the equally soothing codas, and the effect of it all is something like a post-massage high. But can a pillar of ...

vodka, pickles, linen towels, and other essential elements. Pollock mines Russian and Soviet art, literature, and film for a huge number of banya references, to bolster his claim that the banya is ...

Some were getting rowdy, taking vodka shots in the lounge ... The owner of the banya, a Russian man of gargantuan stature, was pacing around, shaking his head. He would be shutting the doors ...

True to tradition, the establishment offers a humid, 180-degree Russian banya, as well as a dry Finnish ... Texas beer-joint fashion while shooting vodka and drinking margaritas on the rocks ...

Moscow - The bath house, or "banya," no less than the vodka bottle, has been a cornerstone of Russian life for centuries - a place for letting off steam, as well as soaking it in, among friends and ...