230 Types Of Fish And Seafood, More Than 120 Types Of Cheeses And More Than 100 Types Of Meat Delicacies: What Will Surprise The Golden Autumn Gastronomic Festival

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

The main gastronomic event of the Moscow Seasons, the Golden Autumn Festival, will be held from October 4 to 13 and will cover more than one and a half thousand sites throughout the city: Red Square, Revolution Square, the transition from Manezhnaya Square to Revolution Square, Glory Square, Yunosti Square in Zelenograd, Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard, Orekhovy Boulevard, Shkolnaya, Profsoyuznaya, Gorodetskaya, Mitinskaya, Svyatoozerskaya, Matveevskaya and Pererva streets, as well as 22 capital agricultural markets, 96 weekend fairs and 1386 chain stores

As always, "Golden Autumn" will delight guests with high-quality and varied farm products, original seasonal dishes and an entertainment program - gastronomic shows, folk concerts, theatrical performances, master classes for every taste, excursions, sports games. The theme of this year's festival - innovations in agriculture - will be reflected in the educational program. And a visit to the district sites will turn into a real travel in time - experienced reenactors will recreate different historical eras with their costumes, crafts and everyday life on them!

Gastronomic program

The main thing at Golden Autumn is, of course, delicious and high-quality food! This year, the best producers from all over Russia will bring to the festival 230 types of fish and seafood, more than 100 types of meat products, 120 types of cheeses and other dairy products, as well as the widest selection of seasonal fruits and vegetables.

So, for example, in the shopping chalets on Revolution Square, guests will find a huge assortment of farm cheeses: caciotta with various additives, gorgonzola, parmesan, cheeses prepared according to traditional French recipes (langres, banon, epuas, boulette d'aven, Saint Mor, brie, briya savarin), semi-hard cheeses "Ozeritsky" and "Meshchera", and even cheese candies!

Fans of meat delicacies will be offered products from ostrich and maral meat, horse meat steppe balyk, kazylyk (horse meat sausage) and many other unusual products.

In addition, guests will be able to purchase a variety of sauces (gooseberry, "blackberry satsibeli", apricot with rosemary, spicy plums in marinade, apple adjika, fried eggplants in tomato sauce), jam (from hot peppers, lime and mint, from green walnuts, from barberry, dogwood or lingonberry), grated with sugar berries (cloudberries, strawberries, gooseberries, blueberries, viburnum), herbal preparations, herbal teas, mushrooms, dried in a Russian oven (white, aspen mushrooms, chanterelles).

Among the unusual dishes that can be tasted on this site are smoked brisket (16 hours smoked marbled beef), soup with feta dumplings, tom yum with mussels and seafood, cheese soup, grilled halloumi cheese, potato waffles with herring and capers, pike cutlet in hot bread with Gurian cabbage, black burgers, shrimp burgers, chorizo sausages with your choice of sauces, grilled vegetables, pear pies in butter cream, bagels and bagels. And you can drink this variety with herbal tea with honey and berries!

A wide choice awaits gourmets at the "Golden Autumn" site on Red Square! Here, in 56 shopping chalets, guests will find the best products from dozens of Russian regions. And 16 restaurants will try to surprise even the most sophisticated eaters! For example, visitors will be offered real Kuban borscht, spicy pumpkin soup, shurpa, “kagai-shurbi” (Chuvash offal soup), Siberian dumplings, grilled Onega vendace, pea porridge with wild mushrooms, chertlama (a type of pancake) on ayran with meat, “zhalbaur” (lamb liver in Balkar style), the back of a roe deer with hazelnuts baked in dough, as well as Tula “bast shoes” (traditional Tula pies with potatoes), Murom rolls, Crimean pasties with various fillings, echpochmaks and chak- chuck.

And what is a gastronomic festival without culinary master classes? More than 450 free culinary lessons will be held for guests during the "Golden Autumn" days. Everyone will be able to learn how to cook delicious and hearty "autumn" dishes from seasonal vegetables, as well as favorite treats of residents of various Russian regions and European countries. And also - to master the "historical" cooking (for example, the festive "menu" of the Medieval meal or the main hits of canteens in collective farms and pioneer camps), prepare dishes from the "sea" menu or dishes from movies. It will be possible to take part in culinary classes from October 4 to 13 at the central and district venues of the festival: on Red Square, Revolution Square and Glory Square, on Pererva, Profsoyuznaya, Gorodetskaya, Mitinskaya, Matveyevskaya and Svyatoozernaya streets, on Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard, on Orekhovy Boulevard and on the Yunosti square in Zelenograd.

Cultural and educational program

As always at the Moscow Seasons festivals, a huge number of exciting events await visitors to the Golden Autumn: daily culinary shows, more than 240 performances and concerts, 350 creative workshops, 55 sports activities!

The largest venue of the Golden Autumn will open in the heart of the capital - on Red Square. Going there, the guests of the festival will find themselves in the middle of a rural landscape: they will see a Russian field with ears of grain, a wild garden where trees and berries grow, a pasture with wooden sculptures of animals, an apiary with real beehives and an amazing mill decorated with graffiti with scenes from the studio's cartoons. Soyuzmultfilm ". Muscovites and tourists will be able to visit the exhibition of art objects in the form of various models of tractors, trucks and grain harvesters, and the zone of "smart" technologies will acquaint them with innovations in Russian agriculture: navigation systems, "smart" fertilization and data analysis for making forecasts and strategies; AIoT platforms and applications for monitoring data coming from sensors; drones for monitoring the state of fields and harvesting and much more.

A series of exciting gastronomic shows will be held on Red Square: their participants will prepare dishes from seasonal products under the guidance of chefs, competing for the title of chief culinary specialist of the fall. Popular folk groups will perform on the stage: Folkbeat, which works in the style of ethno-electronics, Partizan FM, performing Cossack and author's songs, and many others. And since autumn is a time of bright colors, guests of the festival will be pleased with floral shows from the TRIDVORNOVA ART bureau.

Many interesting creative activities are organized for children: master classes on cooking traditional dishes from different regions of Russia, creating original carpets, handicrafts from wood and vines, knitting and embroidery.

A cozy autumn town will open on Revolution Square. In patterned houses - trade and restaurant chalets - you can buy “delicious” souvenirs - gifts of the harvest from all over Russia, and choose original dishes from a special menu prepared by Moscow restaurateurs. From the stage of the site, ethnic music will be streamed in a modern way, and a picturesque track will appear nearby, where radio-controlled tractor races will be held!

You can learn more about the history of agriculture at the exhibition "The Evolution of Traction Power: From Plow to Modern Machines", which will unfold at the transition from Manezhnaya Square to Revolution Square. 21 exhibits will be presented to the attention of visitors: these are rare tractors made in the USSR (and modern Russia), the USA, Italy, Germany and Austria. They are brought to the festival site in the very center of Moscow by the Scientific and Technical Museum of the History of the Tractor (Cheboksary).

Having examined all the exhibits at the Golden Autumn exhibition, you will study almost a century in the history of tractor construction! The oldest car on display is a Fordson tractor, built in 1917. And the most modern machine of all that can be seen on the site - Vladimir 2032-10 (Vladimir Tractor Plant, Russia) - was assembled in 2005. Other unusual machines include the John Deere D tractor (Deer & company, USA, 1924); the John Deere D engine was particularly noisy, for which the farmers nicknamed this tractor "Popping Johnnie"; arable wheeled tractor STZ 15/30 (Stalingrad Tractor Plant, 1931) - the first example of domestic machine-building products produced by the conveyor method; "DT-54" (Volgograd Tractor Plant, 1947) - the first domestic arable tracked tractor with a diesel engine.

Another "Golden Autumn" site in the Central Administrative District will work on Shkolnaya Street! Every day, here, in two animation chalets, free master classes will await guests. At the Mosaic School, we will learn how to create panels in a variety of styles: from pop art to classics. And in open painting lessons, we will draw landscapes and still lifes. And at the same time we will master the body painting technique and thoroughly “pump” attention to details! Themes of handicrafts and drawings are the most autumnal: a wheat field, rowan twigs, maple leaves, a colorful autumn forest, colorful pumpkins, pomegranates and oranges … And, of course, the resulting masterpieces can be taken and presented to family or friends!

It will be no less interesting at the district sites! This year, at 10 festival locations in different districts of Moscow, a unique "historical" program was prepared with the participation of 1,500 reenactors in the images of residents of various eras and countries. Each playground promises a variety of exciting activities. More than 1,850 open history lessons and educational interactive programs await visitors!

So, on Svyatoozerskaya Street you will be transported to the settlement of Dyakovites who lived in the territories of Moscow, Tver, Vladimir, Smolensk, Ivanovo and other Russian regions from the 7th century BC to the 5th century AD, get acquainted with their crafts and cuisine. Masquerade balls in the spirit of the European Middle Ages will be held on Gorodetskaya Street, and they will teach jewelry and drinking habits of that time. A small Mediterranean port town of the 19th century will appear on Orekhovy Boulevard, which will be interesting to everyone who is fond of maritime affairs, history and geography. They will have classes on navigational and shipping, navigation on nautical charts, Morse code and, of course, Mediterranean cuisine! The site on Pererva Street will tell about the agrarian revolutions, the care of livestock in different eras, the evolution of tools and land cultivation technologies. Guests of the site on Matveyevskaya Street will immerse themselves in the art of the Art Nouveau era, visitors to the site on Profsoyuznaya will go on the "Kropotkin expedition", and residents and guests of Zelenograd will be able to see the warriors of the Pushkarsky order, clerks, cooks and musicians from the time of Alexei Mikhailovich Tishaishiy, the second Russian tsar of the Romanov dynasty.

And so that visitors will have the brightest photos in memory of the festival - more than 2000 kg of pumpkins are used to decorate the surrounding grounds!

Organizing committee of the cycle of city street events

"Moscow seasons"

Pavel Gusev

+7 (916) 758-20-42

Ekaterina Kuznetsova

+7 (967) 035-62-46

[email protected]

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"Golden Autumn" is a vibrant gastronomic festival, during which many fairs with first-class farm products open in Moscow, and restaurateurs compose a special menu of the best dishes from all over the country. A rich cultural program awaits guests: gastronomic shows and culinary master classes, performances, concerts, sports games, excursions, lectures on a healthy lifestyle and much more. More than 1000 manufacturers from 55 Russian regions took part in the festival last year. 6.5 million people visited the sites of the "Golden Autumn" - they bought 40 tons of fish and seafood, 35 tons of cheese and other dairy products and 8.5 tons of meat delicacies.

The official website of the festival is