Came across a stolovaya (canteen) hidden in the back alleys of Minsk. Thought it'd be rude to not go and have a look inside and see what they were offering for lunch.
07:30 it is restaurnts for working class, it is a main reason of cheap food, not bad quality. No luxuries decorations, no silver spoons and forks, no live music,... But good food and cheap food. Everything is modest, simple and tasty and cheap. Just wats ordinary factory worker wants of restaurant.
The larger companies in the US often have a "company cafeteria" like this. The workers like it because it is cheap, good food, and the company likes it because workers stay on campus instead of taking long lunches at outside restaurants or fast food.
Germany still has these types of canteens at or next to universities, hospitals, retirement homes and some other facilities and factories. There are often for internal purposes, but some offer public access so you can visit them and try some relatively cheap, mostly simple dishes like schnitzel, wurst, sauerkraut and potatoes.
I live in Bulgaria, which may have been a close friend of Soviet Union in the past but never a part of it, and everything looks so familiar and comforting to me in this Belarusian building, restaurant, food, door frame, the way they put paper notice on the windows(like they put it in a plastic cover). Love how you were honest and respectful, and fair with grading. No exaggeration, no clickbait.
I eat in such places in Latvia. Good wholesome food. There's one a short drive from the factory where I work which is located at rear of a long abandoned soviet furniture factory, it's the only part of the factory that still operates the decor hasn't changed in decades, wood panneling everywhere, and they use an abacus instead of a cash register, but man the food is so fucking gooood. My go to is solyanka soup, 2 meat filled pancakes with sour cream, and kissel with cream for dessert. It's around 5 euro for all that.
Im Polish. We had these eateries in poland as well. We called them milk bars..mainly they were for workers and students. Best home foods. I rrmember when western restaurants got established and all my friends ate mcdonalds while i visiting from canada would eat at the milk bars.what a time it was
Interesting. There were ‘milk bars’ in Australia too, they’re almost all gone now. But they were small family-run convenience stores. The family would usually live in the shop too
@@mrangryface But u can get a 2 pack frozen pizza for that price and it comes with way more calories than the meal shown in the video, if u dont count the cost for heating, I would go with the pizza.
Me and a few mates visited a similar type of place in Finland. We landed up in some industrial park, followed the food signs to some dark stairwell which led to a similarly dark hall like in your video, and was then treated to a decent and hearty buffet! Rice and meat stew, salad, fruit, unlimited fruit juice all for like 7 Euros, which for Finland is nothing. We were stuffed.
I was a dishwasher and the chef said I was the arsehole of the kitchen. I replied well this arsehole is closed enjoy placing your food on dirty dishes and walked out the door
Eaten in a Few 35 years ago... mainly attached to large factories >HUNDREDS of people eating in them ! really good food and If I remember correctly 20p for lunch
@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 You'd have to go to your average American-style western burp joint for that. That's where the unsanitary and unhealthy food is
My mother is Scottish, the soups she makes are phenomenal, I have made soups in her style for friends over the years & never had any disappointment. There is something that draws me to soup in Eastern Europe, they look & sound amazing. Just you listing the ingredients triggered off my 'mothers soup sense' & I'm really keen to try. Vlogs such as this fill me with joy - I get the chance to travel off the beaten track all without leaving my armchair. Thank you for posting & sharing, going to have an adventure watching your other vlogs.
I live in the north of England and the weather is pretty miserable here, so hearty foods like soups are right up my street. I love Baxter's Soups (convenience as obviously home made is better) - always have a cupboard stocked up with Baxters as there are so many brilliant ones to choose from. Do you reckon its the weather as to why there are so many great soups in places like Scotland & Eastern Europe?
@mattwinstanley2544 - I'm from North West England & I agree about the cold weather & soup. Also it is a way of stretching out foods & making use of any food you have left over, however small the portion. I live next to the Sea so there is always a breeze in the colder months the wind can feel quite biting, a soup is necessary to not only keep me warm, but to keep down on fuel costs. I think all colder countries can relate to soups from Broth, Goulash, Borscht each country, region will have their soup to keep their families warm, full & ready to venture out to work or school. How far north are you?
Just in north Manchester mate inbetween Bury, Rochdale and Manchester City Centre. We get that bloody moisture from the Welsh Mountains that then pushes up into Lancashire proper and into the Lakes. Hence the reputation Manchester gets for rain ha how about you? My gut is saying maybe Cumbria?@@idavo
Your gut is good! Yes, South Cumbria, lucky I'm right next to the Sea. Moved back here after 30 years, was in Salford for the last 20 odd. I used to get up to Bury & Heywood. Covid & my health brought me back. Living in a Salford high rise with no heating, damp & a disability made me a target for Covid so I got a taxi to my family & stayed here since. I miss Salford & Greater Manchester, I'm more familiar with North Manchester, Bolton areas, the black pudding & black peas on Bury Market - the people, I thought I'd be there forever. But new adventures have to start over sometimes. I think one thing that connects northern England, Scotland & Ireland is the potato. Whatever you do with them they bulk out food & fill you up. I used to have an Indian lass who worked for me in Manchester, told me once to make up my favourite curry, which I used to from scratch & instead of any meat, use small waxy potatoes. It was the best Indian food advice I was ever given. It fills you up & keeps the cold from your door. Sending my regards to you - really enjoying the chat. Thinking about tea soon. Tek care fella.
Can you imagine, mostly all Russian's and Belarusian drive BMW or Merseyside's everybody have iPhones everybody have own house or apartment's and summer house with the salary 600$!!! Not like you in gayrop or gaymerica we not sleeping on the street's in tents!!!
@@laylaabdullah1093 there is nowhere a proof of that. It's just your imagination, especially about owning property. Most people are paying rent. You don't seem to have an idea of global economics and how statistics work either. I'm not trying to make it look worse than it is, you can still have a pretty normal life in Belarus or Russia, but the things you just named are all imported goods and imported stuff is always more expensive than home made products. It's simple math from there on. In my gayrope an average gayropean could buy a new iPhone every month. How many iPhones could buy an average Belarusian worker in one month?
@@berniemo5135 I'll not talk so much,just open Google and check how much bus drivers earning in Moscow. And remember Russia have own systems of paying and hiding from taxes.
Also, it's really nice you said "Spasibo" to a woman in the dishwasher department, it's a really common thing to do in former USSR, those women have nothing to do with cooking, but still, it's nice they get all the thanks, it's like a tradition you followed
This looks like quite typical Finnish home made food! Except the Kissel (kiisseli in Finnish) is usually a bit too thick to drink. Belarus is on my bucket list.
In my town in Latvia we still have old dining cafeteria from early 80's Soviet era located in industrial area, that used to have huge car manufectuer back in Soviet time. Thats place reminds me this, prices are cheap, homemade old Soviet style lunch dishes with homemade mustard. And it is still popular, filled with workers from local factories and companies.
bruh, who you trying to fool, we in the west have choice. We can eat mc donalds, we can eat at diners, there are even kitchens like this in some places with very few selection at reasonable price, or you can buy a vast assortment of produce and products organic or otherwise, fresh bread and milk at the countless grocery stores all within 1km of eachother where I am and make it yourself. You chose.
Buckwheat/rice/mashedpotato/pasta as a sidedish, chicken/pork+beef/or fish coutlet/beefstew, borshch/Stchi, 2-3 salads, tea/coffee/fruit compote. Probably 90% of menus in all such places. Stolovaya literally means dining room or dining house. And in USSR they provided main meals in schools, factories, hospitals etc during lunchbreaks. The core factors were cheap and healthy.
Ah, compote and BonAqua; that takes me back. I visited Minsk in the summer of 2009; loved every minute of it. A really nice place. I should visit again soon. Haven't had any BelaCola in too long!
nice to see Belarus. was there as a kid visiting my grandma 16 years ago, its still feels like yesterday. thanks for showing this funny meal, ate this all my childhood.
Closest thing the USA has to this would be like a hospital cafeteria. It was also similar to the dining facility on one of the Army Posts I’ve eaten at before while in the military.
so cute when you speak russian, the lunch lady was intense lol 😄please make more of these videos, it makes me miss Belarus . I assume you're also from Australia?
Heck yeah! Id eat there often. What you were served was better than our local dinners. And we prefer dinners over chain restaurants. There are some things you should never mess with or change, and that's food. I really like how it was served and the style of the place. Efficient, practical and clean and welcoming.
Do not forget: the employees in such cafes in BY earn very little. Perhaps 150 eur PER MONTH! That is why the prices are so low. I am Belarussian living in Austria.
Just subscribed, keep doing what you do the way you want to do it. Some people will like your presentation style, some won’t; just do it your way. Good work 🎉
That looked superb , plenty of good quality food at very reasonable rates. Facilities such as this would do very well here in the UK , but reading the other comments the idea seems firmly entrenched in Eastern or Central Europe where it can still be viable. Lovely stuff ,great vid. A beer wouldve gone great with it 😂😂
We had that at the Isle of Rügen. The " Stadt Bergen". Not two customers got the same plates. It was all mixed stuff from previous enterprises. But food was plenty and good.
Russo/Soviet version of an American meat and three diner. One here in my little Tennessee town I went to yesterday and got two pieces of fried chicken hash brown casserole pinto beans cherry cobbler and rolls for 8$ plus tax. Drank free ice water. Left a 3$ tip so the entire thing came to like 12$ with tax and tip. Got an all you can eat Chinese buffet here for 10$ at lunch. I'm a cheap SOB so I seek places like this out. 😂
Visit my city, Hrodna, the most beautiful city in belarus! i appreciate you stopping by our neck of the woods. I was in Australia once, in Darwin, it was awesome!
Maybe, but this isn't really good food. Looks exactly like school cafeteria food I grew up on in post soviet Hungary. Also the USA has higher quality meats and better cuts in general compared to the rest of the (non-western) world. And tipping around 10-12% is expected in Eastern Europe, not in cafeterias like this where there's no server though. Usually it's automatically included in your bill as a service charge.
Hey man! I am am another Aussie Vlogger, I love this raw style of video! I am fascinated by this part of the world. Looking at getting there early next year, did you have social media or somewhere we could talk?
This video came up in my recommended. Found this one and the apartment tour in Minsk both fascinating, never seen a real look at Belarus before. Do you live there?
I wish that we had places similar to that in the US. I've found a few simple homemade food type places that are very reasonable, but they are to-go only, and also a place that makes different pasta salads and such that has a retail store/ cafeteria thats open to the public that I quite enjoy but the cafeteria part is only open 3 hours a day on weekdays and I usually am at work in the next city over.
food looks great 👍 Back in the 2000s I used to eat regularly at the Prasowy Bar Mleczna in Warsaw. Great tuck ... a damn good meal for 4 euros... perfect food for the winter...
So much better than Bald n Banktupt who you can tell is sneering underneath. You appreciate it for what it is, no joking or sneering. We dont all have to live the same.
Thanks for sharing. I'd love to eat at a place like this. The bread looked like a homemade sourdough. Very interesting, especially since, even if i were to go to belarus, i and most people would have trouble eating here because of the language barrier.
You still find this kind of restaurants allot in Latvia near schools also you have a good dinner between 4 and 6 euro schnitzel salad and patato or fries
There was one of these in Gomel not far from my sister in laws house. It was really cheap and the food was home made, good quality. It's not a restaurant though, silverware, tables ect were very minimalist.
There use to be restaurants in london called the Stockpot - just very basic but with good tasty and by London standards cheap. Was sad when they went. Hope Belarus can keep hanging on to these canteens.
Buckwheat/rice/mashedpotato/pasta as a sidedish, chicken/pork+beef/or fish coutlet/beefstew, borshch/Stchi, 2-3 salads, tea/coffee/fruit compote. Probably 90% of menus in all such places.
looks great and nice clean place it seems, the juice could be made of real frutis since its creamy, it used to be that with homemade fruit juice i got as a child
Not bad at all.. I traveled to Tegucigalpa, Honduras last year and found a place that served wood fired roasted chicken.. very tasty. An order of 1/4 chicken with 5 tortillas and a soft drink was about 75 Lempiras or $3.
In Hungary, before 1989, factory canteens were similar. Very low price, $025US Soup, meat with garnish and salad, bread. The provision of cheap meals was mandatory in all workplaces. Today there is a card instead, which can be used in restaurants, grocery stores, and countless other places.
@@YakutiaYT You should. My wife worked in one and they had salmon, steaks even and cake for dessert. On Fridays they made smash burgers. But it depends which lounasravintola you go.
Very nice. Under three USD for a complete good meal in a clean restaurant is unheard of in the US. For entertainment I would bring a book or newspaper or even a friend.
Hi, yes always good to know of places like that to eat and hope it's at least above 6.5 in taste and can fill you. In Canada I know lol for that would pay somewhere around $2.50 for the drink...50c for the bread and $5-7 for soup and hm maybe $5 at least for salad and the main would be $15 at any ol avg place----
07:30 it is restaurnts for working class, it is a main reason of cheap food, not bad quality. No luxuries decorations, no silver spoons and forks, no live music,... But good food and cheap food. Everything is modest, simple and tasty and cheap. Just wats ordinary factory worker wants of restaurant.
The larger companies in the US often have a "company cafeteria" like this. The workers like it because it is cheap, good food, and the company likes it because workers stay on campus instead of taking long lunches at outside restaurants or fast food.
Whenever you said thank you it reminds me of rob schneider in big daddy as the delivery guy
@@chronicwhisper thank you
Fantastic! I’m from Poland and remember eating at such restaurants. They have the best food in my opinion. Simple but filling, that’s all I need.
In Latvia we had the same.....
And now you have McDonalds instead. Congratulations Latvia!
Germany still has these types of canteens at or next to universities, hospitals, retirement homes and some other facilities and factories. There are often for internal purposes, but some offer public access so you can visit them and try some relatively cheap, mostly simple dishes like schnitzel, wurst, sauerkraut and potatoes.
Können Sie, bitter, die Adresse geben. Ich kenne keine in Deutschland. @@allesindwillkommen
@@allesindwillkommen pommes mit jägersoße ^^
I live in Bulgaria, which may have been a close friend of Soviet Union in the past but never a part of it, and everything looks so familiar and comforting to me in this Belarusian building, restaurant, food, door frame, the way they put paper notice on the windows(like they put it in a plastic cover). Love how you were honest and respectful, and fair with grading. No exaggeration, no clickbait.
I like the way people take the trouble to cultivate displays of greenery indoors. It may not seem much, but it matters.
I eat in such places in Latvia. Good wholesome food. There's one a short drive from the factory where I work which is located at rear of a long abandoned soviet furniture factory, it's the only part of the factory that still operates the decor hasn't changed in decades, wood panneling everywhere, and they use an abacus instead of a cash register, but man the food is so fucking gooood. My go to is solyanka soup, 2 meat filled pancakes with sour cream, and kissel with cream for dessert. It's around 5 euro for all that.
Sounds like my kinda place! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Im Polish. We had these eateries in poland as well. We called them milk bars..mainly they were for workers and students. Best home foods. I rrmember when western restaurants got established and all my friends ate mcdonalds while i visiting from canada would eat at the milk bars.what a time it was
Interesting. There were ‘milk bars’ in Australia too, they’re almost all gone now. But they were small family-run convenience stores. The family would usually live in the shop too
I tried the Stolovaya in Minsk near the army\war museum. Was really very, very good. Paid like EUR 2.50.
I kept telling myself throughout the reveal "If that's under $4, I'll be impressed"
well...
Consider me impressed.
you cant get a mcdonalds hashbrown for that price right now haha
@@mrangryface But u can get a 2 pack frozen pizza for that price and it comes with way more calories than the meal shown in the video, if u dont count the cost for heating, I would go with the pizza.
Me and a few mates visited a similar type of place in Finland. We landed up in some industrial park, followed the food signs to some dark stairwell which led to a similarly dark hall like in your video, and was then treated to a decent and hearty buffet! Rice and meat stew, salad, fruit, unlimited fruit juice all for like 7 Euros, which for Finland is nothing. We were stuffed.
Sounds amazing!
I love how you thanked the dishwasher in the back. Very kind of you to recognize their labour and contribution to the workforce in the cafe.
And even if he spoke the language flawlessly and dressed the part, this little gesture would've given him away as a foreigner immediately :)))
I was a dishwasher and the chef said I was the arsehole of the kitchen. I replied well this arsehole is closed enjoy placing your food on dirty dishes and walked out the door
These canteens are pretty common in post soviet countries. You can find them in office blocks, industrial zones and even tourist places.
Eaten in a Few 35 years ago... mainly attached to large factories >HUNDREDS of people eating in them ! really good food and If I remember correctly 20p for lunch
@@carforumwanker This place looks a name to add on my list on my next travels trying to get food poisioning!
@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 You'd have to go to your average American-style western burp joint for that. That's where the unsanitary and unhealthy food is
@@user-no1nj9ji1d LOL yer im sure the hygiene standards are great LOL NOT!
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 go eat mcpukes
My mother is Scottish, the soups she makes are phenomenal, I have made soups in her style for friends over the years & never had any disappointment.
There is something that draws me to soup in Eastern Europe, they look & sound amazing.
Just you listing the ingredients triggered off my 'mothers soup sense' & I'm really keen to try.
Vlogs such as this fill me with joy - I get the chance to travel off the beaten track all without leaving my armchair.
Thank you for posting & sharing, going to have an adventure watching your other vlogs.
I live in the north of England and the weather is pretty miserable here, so hearty foods like soups are right up my street. I love Baxter's Soups (convenience as obviously home made is better) - always have a cupboard stocked up with Baxters as there are so many brilliant ones to choose from.
Do you reckon its the weather as to why there are so many great soups in places like Scotland & Eastern Europe?
@mattwinstanley2544 - I'm from North West England & I agree about the cold weather & soup.
Also it is a way of stretching out foods & making use of any food you have left over, however small the portion.
I live next to the Sea so there is always a breeze in the colder months the wind can feel quite biting, a soup is necessary to not only keep me warm, but to keep down on fuel costs.
I think all colder countries can relate to soups from Broth, Goulash, Borscht each country, region will have their soup to keep their families warm, full & ready to venture out to work or school.
How far north are you?
Just in north Manchester mate inbetween Bury, Rochdale and Manchester City Centre.
We get that bloody moisture from the Welsh Mountains that then pushes up into Lancashire proper and into the Lakes.
Hence the reputation Manchester gets for rain ha
how about you? My gut is saying maybe Cumbria?@@idavo
Your gut is good!
Yes, South Cumbria, lucky I'm right next to the Sea.
Moved back here after 30 years, was in Salford for the last 20 odd.
I used to get up to Bury & Heywood.
Covid & my health brought me back.
Living in a Salford high rise with no heating, damp & a disability made me a target for Covid so I got a taxi to my family & stayed here since.
I miss Salford & Greater Manchester, I'm more familiar with North Manchester, Bolton areas, the black pudding & black peas on Bury Market - the people, I thought I'd be there forever.
But new adventures have to start over sometimes.
I think one thing that connects northern England, Scotland & Ireland is the potato.
Whatever you do with them they bulk out food & fill you up.
I used to have an Indian lass who worked for me in Manchester, told me once to make up my favourite curry, which I used to from scratch & instead of any meat, use small waxy potatoes.
It was the best Indian food advice I was ever given.
It fills you up & keeps the cold from your door.
Sending my regards to you - really enjoying the chat.
Thinking about tea soon.
Tek care fella.
From a westerners perspective it's cheap, but the prices are actually okay for average Belarusians with a monthly income of 600 USD.
Can you imagine, mostly all Russian's and Belarusian drive BMW or Merseyside's everybody have iPhones everybody have own house or apartment's and summer house with the salary 600$!!! Not like you in gayrop or gaymerica we not sleeping on the street's in tents!!!
@@laylaabdullah1093 there is nowhere a proof of that. It's just your imagination, especially about owning property. Most people are paying rent. You don't seem to have an idea of global economics and how statistics work either. I'm not trying to make it look worse than it is, you can still have a pretty normal life in Belarus or Russia, but the things you just named are all imported goods and imported stuff is always more expensive than home made products. It's simple math from there on. In my gayrope an average gayropean could buy a new iPhone every month. How many iPhones could buy an average Belarusian worker in one month?
@@berniemo5135 I'll not talk so much,just open Google and check how much bus drivers earning in Moscow. And remember Russia have own systems of paying and hiding from taxes.
@@berniemo5135nicely explained.. no mention that 600 dollars average salary is a little bit nonsense
As russian I can say it's cheap anyway.
Also, it's really nice you said "Spasibo" to a woman in the dishwasher department, it's a really common thing to do in former USSR, those women have nothing to do with cooking, but still, it's nice they get all the thanks, it's like a tradition you followed
My first time viewing your channel. Well done!
This looks like quite typical Finnish home made food! Except the Kissel (kiisseli in Finnish) is usually a bit too thick to drink. Belarus is on my bucket list.
Great country to visit 🙂
In my town in Latvia we still have old dining cafeteria from early 80's Soviet era located in industrial area, that used to have huge car manufectuer back in Soviet time. Thats place reminds me this, prices are cheap, homemade old Soviet style lunch dishes with homemade mustard. And it is still popular, filled with workers from local factories and companies.
Factories still exist in Latvia?😅
где был РАФ ?)
Had them in Bulgaria as well after joining the west and eu they disappeared and McDonalds came with their expensive poisonous trash.
Кроме мака в Болгарии нет ничего? Печаль.
@@user-tz4bu7jp7q There is if you know where to go and what to look for. It's not only western junk
Fast food makes people fat FAST!
bruh, who you trying to fool, we in the west have choice. We can eat mc donalds, we can eat at diners, there are even kitchens like this in some places with very few selection at reasonable price, or you can buy a vast assortment of produce and products organic or otherwise, fresh bread and milk at the countless grocery stores all within 1km of eachother where I am and make it yourself. You chose.
Just found your channel and subscribed, enjoyed this video! Look forward to seeing more videos interacting with local Belarusian people, too.
"Bald and Bankrupt" went to a famous one in Moscow called Cafeteria No.1....It was packed with people and the food looked great.
That place isn’t unique anymore, it has a history behind it, but nowadays is just a regular canteen with modern furniture. Soulless I must say :)
I'm glad the algorithm brought me to your videos. You're doing a great job, keep it up, you will be quite successful!
Thanks for the encouragement!
I grew up in USSR, hmmmmm Stolovaya..... when my grand mother would occasionaly take me to Stolovaya at her workplace, it was always a treat.
A bit depressing but nutritious and clean. We will soon need these in the US. Traditional fast food is now too expensive.
Im not rating the decor as im stuffing my face.
Buckwheat/rice/mashedpotato/pasta as a sidedish, chicken/pork+beef/or fish coutlet/beefstew, borshch/Stchi, 2-3 salads, tea/coffee/fruit compote. Probably 90% of menus in all such places. Stolovaya literally means dining room or dining house. And in USSR they provided main meals in schools, factories, hospitals etc during lunchbreaks. The core factors were cheap and healthy.
'A bit depressing but nutritious and clean' - thats how you can describe the whole Belarus country i think
You might need these in the US, but because it benefits people for the sake of helping them, as against making a dollar, won't ever happen.
One thing, American fast food it's very bad for health. Russian food like this it's healthy.
Ah, compote and BonAqua; that takes me back. I visited Minsk in the summer of 2009; loved every minute of it. A really nice place. I should visit again soon. Haven't had any BelaCola in too long!
nice to see Belarus. was there as a kid visiting my grandma 16 years ago, its still feels like yesterday. thanks for showing this funny meal, ate this all my childhood.
I noticed that as well - you thanked the dishwasher that you couldn’t see Admirable 👍
Just found your channel, good content buddy! I'm learning russian and I think it's very helpful to us beginners, thank you and keep it up!
Добро пожаловать!
Closest thing the USA has to this would be like a hospital cafeteria. It was also similar to the dining facility on one of the Army Posts I’ve eaten at before while in the military.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing 🙂
"Closest thing the USA has to this would be like a hospital cafeteria." You can get staff infection & a BLT off the same floor
In the US Navy, we call those CHICKEN WHEELS. LOL!
Very nice video. I took a bus into Grodno from Vilnius back in January and it was beautiful. And also very good value :)
Great channel you’ve got
Appreciate you bringing me along. Cool
Congrats on your first 1k subscribers!🍻🥔
You seem like a real gentleman. Don't change. I just subscribed . Thumbs up.
Thank you 👍
so cute when you speak russian, the lunch lady was intense lol 😄please make more of these videos, it makes me miss Belarus . I assume you're also from Australia?
Yep!
I Agree. So cute & shy ❤❤
Heck yeah! Id eat there often. What you were served was better than our local dinners. And we prefer dinners over chain restaurants. There are some things you should never mess with or change, and that's food. I really like how it was served and the style of the place. Efficient, practical and clean and welcoming.
Do not forget: the employees in such cafes in BY earn very little. Perhaps 150 eur PER MONTH! That is why the prices are so low. I am Belarussian living in Austria.
Interesting content pal! Subbed🎉
Looks really good....just found your channel....
Just subscribed, keep doing what you do the way you want to do it. Some people will like your presentation style, some won’t; just do it your way. Good work 🎉
Thanks a lot! 🤝
That looked superb , plenty of good quality food at very reasonable rates. Facilities such as this would do very well here in the UK , but reading the other comments the idea seems firmly entrenched in Eastern or Central Europe where it can still be viable.
Lovely stuff ,great vid. A beer wouldve gone great with it 😂😂
We had that at the Isle of Rügen. The " Stadt Bergen". Not two customers got the same plates. It was all mixed stuff from previous enterprises. But food was plenty and good.
One of my best friends was from Poland, that soup looks delicious and familiar
Like your live streams looking forward for more of it😊
Nice video great to see, soup looked amazing.
Nice video. Simple, clean Stolovaya with simple, good, traditional food and simple prices. Long live the Russian Stolovayas. 🤩😍
Its so 60's styled everything 😊
Love this cantina videos, wish i could eat there once. Good Video, nice dude, gonna sub.
Russo/Soviet version of an American meat and three diner. One here in my little Tennessee town I went to yesterday and got two pieces of fried chicken hash brown casserole pinto beans cherry cobbler and rolls for 8$ plus tax. Drank free ice water. Left a 3$ tip so the entire thing came to like 12$ with tax and tip. Got an all you can eat Chinese buffet here for 10$ at lunch. I'm a cheap SOB so I seek places like this out. 😂
You would like Belarus then
Visit my city, Hrodna, the most beautiful city in belarus! i appreciate you stopping by our neck of the woods. I was in Australia once, in Darwin, it was awesome!
That same meal in the USA would cost $20 and they'd expect a 20% tip.
Maybe, but this isn't really good food. Looks exactly like school cafeteria food I grew up on in post soviet Hungary. Also the USA has higher quality meats and better cuts in general compared to the rest of the (non-western) world. And tipping around 10-12% is expected in Eastern Europe, not in cafeterias like this where there's no server though. Usually it's automatically included in your bill as a service charge.
@@djwaltoaram7052Every restaurant in Amurica has high qualit meat?😅😅😅
Gawd bless murica 🇺🇸
Ok boomer
Great value and a proper meal for a worker .
Hey man! I am am another Aussie Vlogger, I love this raw style of video! I am fascinated by this part of the world. Looking at getting there early next year, did you have social media or somewhere we could talk?
james_hargreaves if you want to talk on IG
The food quality in eastern europe is top notch no matter where u go, the places are very honest with their ppl.
This video came up in my recommended. Found this one and the apartment tour in Minsk both fascinating, never seen a real look at Belarus before. Do you live there?
I wish that we had places similar to that in the US. I've found a few simple homemade food type places that are very reasonable, but they are to-go only, and also a place that makes different pasta salads and such that has a retail store/ cafeteria thats open to the public that I quite enjoy but the cafeteria part is only open 3 hours a day on weekdays and I usually am at work in the next city over.
Have a lot of these in romania well out side Bucharest the only thing is never warm
food looks great 👍 Back in the 2000s I used to eat regularly at the Prasowy Bar Mleczna in Warsaw. Great tuck ... a damn good meal for 4 euros... perfect food for the winter...
So much better than Bald n Banktupt who you can tell is sneering underneath. You appreciate it for what it is, no joking or sneering. We dont all have to live the same.
Legend, cheers 🤝
I tried a Belarusian MRE with friends a few years ago and it came with Kissel, it was such a fascinating drink I'd love to have again.
Thanks for sharing. I'd love to eat at a place like this. The bread looked like a homemade sourdough. Very interesting, especially since, even if i were to go to belarus, i and most people would have trouble eating here because of the language barrier.
Just point to the food you want 🙂
Thats a solid meal❤
Что, полноценный, натуральный обед за доступную любому человеку сумму.
good channel bro, just subscribed, I am 1000th subscriber 🎉 keep up the good work
Legend!
Thanks!That was a good look at life.
😂 "As with most buildings in Minsk, there's no elevator" - WHAT?!?! LOL! 🤣 I hope it's not the only building you've visited there by now, mate 😅
That woman certainly gave you direct and clear communication regarding how to place an order, go get the cutlery by yourself.
Nice video cobber, have you shown any Minsk sports, soccer, basketball, ice hockey?
Have seen beach soccer (2023 CIS Games), basketball (BC Tsmoki-Minsk), and ice hockey (HC Dinamo Minsk) while in Minsk 🙂
You still find this kind of restaurants allot in Latvia near schools also you have a good dinner between 4 and 6 euro schnitzel salad and patato or fries
Вкуснятина, аж в столовую захотелось!😍
Давайте!
Мне тоже захотелось побывать там как в машине времени 🥹
There was one of these in Gomel not far from my sister in laws house. It was really cheap and the food was home made, good quality. It's not a restaurant though, silverware, tables ect were very minimalist.
There use to be restaurants in london called the Stockpot - just very basic but with good tasty and by London standards cheap. Was sad when they went. Hope Belarus can keep hanging on to these canteens.
For the price and what you got justified for sure. Thanks for sharing this.
Buckwheat/rice/mashedpotato/pasta as a sidedish, chicken/pork+beef/or fish coutlet/beefstew, borshch/Stchi, 2-3 salads, tea/coffee/fruit compote. Probably 90% of menus in all such places.
Incredibly good value that, would love to explore Eastern Europe more widely one day
love your content, could be a massive channel with some millions subs, how comes ure undetected yet? the quality is legit rlly good
looks great and nice clean place it seems, the juice could be made of real frutis since its creamy, it used to be that with homemade fruit juice i got as a child
This video took me back to the 90s
It was great watching this. Looks like good sumptuous food that does not cost a bomb.
Cheap and plain but also so clean and peaceful.
Food looks very appetizing to me 👍🏻✨
Not bad at all.. I traveled to Tegucigalpa, Honduras last year and found a place that served wood fired roasted chicken.. very tasty. An order of 1/4 chicken with 5 tortillas and a soft drink was about 75 Lempiras or $3.
That’s phenomenal value
In Hungary, before 1989, factory canteens were similar. Very low price, $025US Soup, meat with garnish and salad, bread. The provision of cheap meals was mandatory in all workplaces. Today there is a card instead, which can be used in restaurants, grocery stores, and countless other places.
Do you know any factory canteens in Budapest I should try?
The video is nice and interesting good job :-)
We got these places in Finland too. We call them lounasravintola which means lunch restaurant. The kissel you had we call kiisseli.
Interesting. I’ll have to try them!
@@YakutiaYT You should. My wife worked in one and they had salmon, steaks even and cake for dessert. On Fridays they made smash burgers. But it depends which lounasravintola you go.
everything is beautiful but it's the tray i love the most
not bad looking food. Kissel is like gelated berry juice? amazing!
Very very interesting, great
the building had lifts,saw at the begining before you entered cafe
Fascinating viewing…..good looks decent tbf
it looks nice actually especially for this price
Surprise Irish Partizan wasn't there filling his plates lol.
Irish partisan is under surveillance for pedophilia.
Food from the stolovaya is very healthy and delicious I lived in Belarus 🇧🇾 for 14 years, regards from the Republic of Mauritius 🇲🇺 🖤
Healthier than most places in the West. I know, used to eat in Poland’s milk canteens.
The drink!!! Damn....didnt see that for 30 years.
Awesome
Thank you! 🍻🍻
Food also looks so so. Find the place with deserts (kisely with pudding etc)!!!
I thought it looked like very nice comfort food. And a really nice price.
I would hame enjoyed it myself.
There are still a few of these in Polland.
In the Czech Republic too. Especially on properties where communist factories were.
@@TomasGraf-rr6co my gramps in ostrava used to take me there back in '84
Very nice. Under three USD for a complete good meal in a clean restaurant is unheard of in the US. For entertainment I would bring a book or newspaper or even a friend.
Hi, yes always good to know of places like that to eat and hope it's at least above 6.5 in taste and can fill you. In Canada I know lol for that would pay somewhere around $2.50 for the drink...50c for the bread and $5-7 for soup and hm maybe $5 at least for salad and the main would be $15 at any ol avg place----
Save money and move to Belarus 😃🍽️