We visited the Простые вещи - 2 when it just opened. I felt happy once I entered the small cellar-like dining hall and set at a table covered with dark yellow paper looking at the welcome "sit for a glass of wine" stamped on it. I relaxed listening to quietly playing "La vie en rose" and studying the menu.
My friends came and we got a bottle of French Cotes du Rhone. It was so deeply red in the large beautiful glasses. The wine appetizers menu is very catchy. Just impossible to pass by their "wine set" (olives, dried tomatoes and pickled sweet peppers with crispy slices of baguette).
We also got the cheese platter which was done with good taste. The onion soup, which I miss so much since I left France, was very good. Not too hungry that evening, we didn't come to try most of the food. But a month later I got to visit the older first branch of Простые вещи on Konushkovskaya street 32. It also has a pleasant atmosphere, which feels somewhat different as it has windows apart from the wine cellar-like second branch. At first we were a bit upset as it turned out the menus are a bit different and the first branch doesn't offer the wine set. However then we picked some other food and really enjoyed it. I was absolutely amazed by this bruschetta with camembert - delicious warm ciabatta slices topped with tomatoes, aromatic greens and warm slices of camembert cheese.
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