Restaurant Chinatown on Sukharevskaya. A restaurant of Chinese cuisine "Jimmy Lee" was opened on Prospect Mira
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Average bill: from 1500 to 2000 ₽
Kitchen: Chinese
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10 reasons to book a table
- Table reservation is FOR FREE!
- Possibility to choose a table, for example: by the window, on the sofas, next to the children's room, a cozy corner, definitely not on the aisle and etc.
- Booking a table, in other words, is a notice to the establishment that you Maybe planning to visit it.
- If you are unable to arrive at the establishment by the specified time or at all, your reservation will simply be canceled after 15 minutes! No one will hold a grudge against you, because there are different situations in life :)
- If you do not know the exact number of guests, or the exact time of arrival at the institution, then it is better make a reservation and on the day of the visit, correct or cancel it! This way you will be sure that good tables will remain for you.
- When booking a table, you will be sure that you will not be turned around at the entrance to the institution with the words “no seats”, “one place left at the bar”, “we have a banquet” and etc.
- You receive an SMS about the reservation, this serves as confirmation for you that the reservation request has been processed and you are expected at the establishment.
- The reservation SMS includes the name of the establishment, address, date, time and phone number for making adjustments. If you book by phone of the establishment, SMS is not sent in 90% of cases and prove that you booked a table somewhere - will not work!
- Your mobile number and full name indicated in the booking form are only needed to receive confirmation of the booking by SMS! We do not transfer data to third parties and do not spam mailings!
- When you book a table attitude towards guests in good establishments is more loyal, for example - "You are expected and will definitely be met", "Landing at a good table".
I found Wednesday lunchtime at the entrance to Jimmy Li's Chinese restaurant, which greeted me with a familiar sign, a double glass door, a treacherous step, a green wardrobe, and a string of halls. In the first two zones, the walls are still covered with red brick and green tiles with wooden inserts and partitions. The bar counter looked modest and dark. Next - a miniature hall, cluttered with a single large table for the company. Then, around the corner, the view opened up to the most extensive space with a wallpaper of fish. There is also a toilet in the corner.
The ceiling was decorated with patterns. Herringbone parquet on the floor. During the work, the furniture was worn out: the tables were covered with scratches, the chairs creaked, the leather sofas shrunk, which made it extremely uncomfortable to sit on them. The scenery was different: either zebras, or fish, or Comrade Mao, or football on the LCD screen. The temperature is comfortable. The music is calm. Foreign odors were not captured.
Jimmy's menu turned into a photo brochure. The choice is very extensive. In the selection of dishes and descriptions, the adaptation of Chinese flavor to European tastes was traced. Of the pluses - the section "Dim Sum and dumplings". Finally, at least someone began to notice that dim sum and dumplings are not the same thing. Prices are moderate. Only "Peking Duck" went abroad for 1000 rubles. Portions for one, but without greed.
, 390 ₽
Crispy spring pancakes with shrimps, pork and vegetables, 390 ₽
Shanghai baoji with pork, 390 ₽
Peking sour and spicy soup, 320 ₽
Peking duck, 2350 ₽
Yangzhou style fried rice, 350 ₽
, 670 ₽
, 850 ₽
Water Norda 0.25 b/g, 190 ₽
"Shanghai baoji with pork" (390 rubles) - five commendably pot-bellied, lightly toasted buns, from which I also expected a bouillon explosion and spices of China, but instead of them I got an annoying rough butter cloying.
“Shanghai xiao long bao with pork” (390 rubles), unlike their counterparts, were good in everything. The form is correct. Pinches are neat. The dough is thin and elastic. The filling is juicy, peppery, meaty, and no extra oil.
“Peking sour and spicy soup” (320 rubles) is another disappointment. The look is unsightly. The color is pale grey. The broth is watery. The acid is too harsh. The sharpness is barely noticeable. Tofu, egg and other components are sluggish, tasteless.
“Roast lamb with cumin in Xinjiang” (850 rubles) is an excellent fragrant composition of tender meat layers, spices and fresh cilantro. The softness is excellent. The spice is fascinating. Juiciness at the right level. No complaints.
“Szechuan Beef on Teban” (670 rubles) is an obvious but good attempt to adapt the Szechuan offshoot of Chinese cuisine to Moscow's needs. The meat is soft. The sharpness is palpable. The taste is interesting, bright. Not Sichuan, but delicious.
“Yangzhou-style fried rice” (350 rubles) looked very attractive, but, alas, suffered from an already familiar ailment - the dominance of oil and the absence of any sane spices.
And finally, “Peking Duck” (2350 rubles), the star of the menu and the main disappointment of the order, although everything started very well. When ordering, I was warned that the duck would take an hour to cook. Great. For the delicious duck cooked to order, I was prepared to wait even longer. But after an hour and a tail, I still did not receive any duck. In response to my question, the waiter girl gave me a look in the style of “Oh, @#%!”, flew off to the kitchen and after 15 minutes brought out a white and blue trough, in which lay a sluggish gray mass of viscous skin and dry meat without any signs life. Moreover, after supposedly an hour of cooking, the temperature of the duck was not even room temperature, but refrigerated. And then I realized that they simply forgot about the duck, the most expensive dish in the order and on the menu, and when they remembered, instead of admitting a flaw, they decided to shake off the remnants of the old portion.
The service was young, inexperienced and not very interested in the success of the enterprise. Dirty dishes were taken away by the waiters only upon request, napkins, chopsticks and cutlery were not changed, they explained almost nothing and were not interested in impressions. No one was worried about the “killed” old duck and did not offer to remake the failed dish. Well, the “icing on the cake”: after paying with a card, they decided not to give me a cashier's check and a “rejection” of the terminal. I had to go myself and insistently ask.
The bottom line is this:
Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy, why are you so? It hasn't even been two years yet and you're already running down the ladder of declining quality. Don't you know that Moscow is a complex, stern and capricious lady? She loves only those who move up, and those who go down, she does not notice and quickly forgets.
In press releases and various publications, "Jimmy Lee" is designated as an authentic Chinese restaurant, where you can and should taste Shanghai cuisine. But, as I found out during my visit, this definition is not accurate, because it hides one important mistake. The fact is that there is no authenticity in Jimmy Lee, just as there is no pure Shanghai or Beijing there, there are no traditional Sechuan, Guangdong and Singaporean motifs. "Jimmy Lee" is a coiffed, adapted version of Generalized Chinese Cuisine. But the fact that there is no authenticity in the restaurant is not a minus at all. Not all restaurants can or want to be authentic, traditional or specialty. This is especially evident in the US, where many Chinese restaurants offer not authentic Celestial food, but North American adaptations that also include American-inspired dishes such as General Cao's Chicken.
This institution is located on the first floor of a small old house, in the room where the Chinatown restaurant used to be. Rectangular windows and a black illuminated sign look out onto the street. Already inside the first impression is a tiny establishment, but it is not. The non-standard, intricate space is divided into several zones, which, alas, I learned not from the staff, but from my trip to the toilet. The first is a small red-brick hall filled with "children's" uncomfortable tables and one large round table per company. Behind the partition you can see a meager bar, behind it, another table, then a corridor, then a mini-hall in fish, and, finally, a large main hall. The decor everywhere is pleasant, modern, a little loft-like, decorated with Asian motifs. If not for low sofas and tables, Jimmy Lee could be called a cozy place.
The menu is extensive, generalized Chinese and with some oddities. The gray pages are wrinkled. Double text - hieroglyphs and our native Cyrillic. Font small, hard to read. The names and descriptions are not very clear, and therefore the advice of the staff would be very helpful, but the waiters smile, wait for the order and are silent.
As I mentioned, the food at Jimmy Lee is not traditional, not authentic, but at the same time interesting, bright and tasty in many ways.
"Sour and spicy soup" - sour and not at all spicy, although the consistency and density of the broth are commendable.
"Beijing Goth Dumplings" - fried, with a crust, with a web of thin dough. Looks neat, tastes thick. The dough is too thick. But the filling is spicy and juicy. Dumplings were also served with a very tasty sauce, in which shades of plum wine were also captured.
“Guangbao chicken” is a dish different from the typical Moscow version, in which sweet and annoying bell pepper almost always played the main character. Everything looks simple: small pieces of chicken, cashews and chili. On the palate - the balance of ingredients, tangible, but not nuclear sharpness, the spice of a thick sauce and the juiciness of the chicken.
“Singapore-style veal medallion with honey pepper sauce” - five unsightly petals of pleasure on a hill of tender sweet onions. Outwardly - nothing special, but all the necessary elements are hidden in the taste - spices, moderate sweetness, fragrant black pepper, and tender soft juicy meat.
"Yangzhou-style rice" - moderately crumbly, slightly oily, with a set of various inclusions and slightly salty. No lumps, no black roasts and no dominance of soy sauce.
And, finally, "Dim Sum with Crab" was distinguished by the contrast between the dough and the filling. The rice shell is very viscous and sticky. At the same time, the filling is vigorous, crab, with fresh herbs and bright spices. And the dish was clearly lacking in sauce.
Service at Jimmy Lee's is sweet, young and inexperienced. The girls were worried, vigilantly watching the only three tables, they didn’t miss anything in serving, but they didn’t understand at all how and what to do with the menu, food and guests’ questions.
The bottom line is this:
An interesting project that offers a rather Americanized version of Chinese cuisine without many of its traditional elements, so if you are looking for authenticity, then this place will disappoint you, but if you just want to taste something near-Chinese and colorful, then Jimmy Lee is very suitable .
Publication from Mikhail Kostin (@mkostin_ru) Nov 8 2017 at 7:25 PST
A new Chinese restaurant and bar on Prospekt Mira. Jimmy Lee's menu includes Chinese, Sichuan, Beijing, Guangdong and Shanghai cuisines
comments powered by HyperComments- Table reservation is FOR FREE!
- and etc.
- Maybe planning to visit it.
- and etc.
- You receive an SMS about the reservation
- When you book a table
Average bill: from 1500 to 2000 ₽
Kitchen: Chinese
10 reasons to book a table
- Table reservation is FOR FREE!
- Possibility to choose a table, for example: by the window, on the sofas, next to the children's room, a cozy corner, definitely not on the aisle and etc.
- Booking a table, in other words, is a notice to the establishment that you Maybe planning to visit it.
- If you are unable to arrive at the establishment by the specified time or at all, your reservation will simply be canceled after 15 minutes! No one will hold a grudge against you, because there are different situations in life :)
- If you do not know the exact number of guests, or the exact time of arrival at the institution, then it is better make a reservation and on the day of the visit, correct or cancel it! This way you will be sure that good tables will remain for you.
- When booking a table, you will be sure that you will not be turned around at the entrance to the institution with the words “no seats”, “one place left at the bar”, “we have a banquet” and etc.
- You receive an SMS about the reservation, this serves as confirmation for you that the reservation request has been processed and you are expected at the establishment.
- The reservation SMS includes the name of the establishment, address, date, time and phone number for making adjustments. If you book by phone of the establishment, SMS is not sent in 90% of cases and prove that you booked a table somewhere - will not work!
- Your mobile number and full name indicated in the booking form are only needed to receive confirmation of the booking by SMS! We do not transfer data to third parties and do not spam mailings!
- When you book a table attitude towards guests in good establishments is more loyal, for example - "You are expected and will definitely be met", "Landing at a good table".