New Life of the Authentic Megrelian Dishes
Appetizers
1. Megrelian cheese board - sulguni from Askhi alpine pastures, gebzhalia - matsoni stuffed ball, smoked sulguni, minty nadughi balls, sulguni aged in Ojaleshi wine (vegetarian, gluten-free) 34 GEL
2. Crispy corn chips with old Megrelian kachabe walnut dip (vegan, gluten-free) 18 GEL
3. Tklapi sour plum leather rolls stuffed with the kidney bean paste (vegan, glut.-free) 17 GEL
4. Crispy chicken strips and deep fried ghomi (polenta) sticks with ajika+honey spicy sauce 19 GEL
5. Bzha - traditional fresh gebzhalia cheese with the strained yogurt matsoni filling (vegetarian, gluten-free) 26 GEL
6. Old-fashioned mchadi cornbreads baked with chickpeas served with shashkhi ham, ajika-butter and sour cream&union dip 18 GEL
7. Baked ghomi tartines topped with giblet paté, strained yogurt and lacto-fermented beets (gluten-free) 19 GEL
Salads
1. Fresh cucumber and chicken breast salad seasoned with kachabe old Megrelian walnut paste, served with seasonal fruit and fresh herbs from our garden (gluten-free) 21 GEL
2. Chincholia salad with fresh tomatoes, string cheese, seasoned in homemade sunflower oil and green ajika paste (vegetarian, gluten-free) 18 GEL
3. Tkashmapa salad - roasted eggplant and pork slices, cooked wheat and sour blackberries seasoned with fresh dzrdz yogurt 25 GEL
4. Puchkholia salad - our garden's organic peas, green beans and chickpeas in a bazha walnut and fenugreek dressing with crunchy mchadi cornbread croutons (vegan, gluten-free) 19 GEL
Breads and Filled Breads
1. Megrelian Khachapuri filled and topped with fresh, homemade cheese (vegetarian) 19 GEL
2. Megrelian cornbreads - cornbread baked with chickpeas, cheesy cornbread chvishtari, chachamuta cornbread baked on clay pans, roasted ghomi breads (vegan, gluten-free except the one baked with chickpeas) 14 GEL
3. Shoti bread (vegan) 4 GEL
Variations on Ghomi
1. Megrelian must-eat - traditional stretchy cheesy polenta elarji from its master - Nino Mitagvaria (vegetarian, gluten-free) 14 GEL
2. Risotto-style ghomi (polenta) cooked in dry white wine, with strained yogurt, seasonal fruit and fresh herbs from our garden (vegetarian, gluten-free) 19 GEL
Dumplings
Cheese dumplings with Abkhazian drdz (yogurt with fresh herbs) sauce and poached egg (vegetarian) 22 GEL
Main Courses
1. Roasted chicken leg with the side of hot ghomi polenta, fermented wild garlic leaves from Kinchkha village, sour plum sauce and fresh herbs from our garden (gluten-free) 29 GEL
2. Satsivi - traditional, rustic chicken stew with walnut sauce. Recommended to eat with cornbreads (gluten-free) 23 GEL
3. Colourful ajapsandali vegetable stew served with green hot pepper (vegan, gluten-free) 21 GEL
4. It's magesty, Megrelian kharcho beef stew with tomato and walnut sauce (gluten-free) 36 GEL
5. Kuchmachi from Didi Chkoni - made from beef organs roasted with unions and served with the strained yogurt from Askhi mountain sheferds 30 GEL
6. Lobio kidney beans cooked in red wine. Megrelian-French dialogue 26 GEL
Desserts
1. Nadughi cream cheese dessert with lemon zest and roasted cornflour (vegetarian, gluten-free) 9 GEL
2. Burrata-style fresh gebzhalia ball, served with caramelized pear (vegetarian, gluten-free) 14 GEL
3. Baked apple stuffed with tsandili honey-seasoned wheat, with the side of sweetened ghomi (polenta) (vegan) 15 GEL
4. Seasonal fruit and berry crumbles inspired by traditional pear cornbreads (vegan) 18 GEL