Where to get your Piroshki and Borscht fix?... Russian Restaurant Perestroika!

I'm really excited about this post.  I've been wanting to go to this restaurant for months.  Now Stephanie takes us there virtually!

CONTRIBUTED BY STEPHANIE BORUD

When you walk into the Perestroika, you step into a mini version of Russia (like I've ever been!) The music that's playing just makes me wanna squat and kick my legs out! (Stop trying to picture it!)

We're invited to seat ourselves by Chef Ekaterina as she hands us our menus. I opened up the menu to find my favvy...a course menu! I love it when you don't have to make any hard decisions, the menu makes it for you! I had the Moscow Course while my husband chose the Vladivostok Course. Very much the same course except for he got to choose an extra main dish. He chose the Stroganoff..very Russian, right? Yummy!

 

We are started off with a petit potato salad with tiny treasures of peas and carrots.

A Piroshki follows...mine was delicious with just veggies but his was made with my favorite other white meat, pork!

Next comes the Borscht.

The last time we were there the hostess (I believe her name is Elena) tells us that next we should order something more traditional to the Russian cuisine. She suggested that we order the Borscht. Who am I to argue? Check it out! It's red like Rhubarb but tastes nothing like it! I assure you! It was a bowl full of yummy goodness...can't explain...falling back into the food coma!

Here's my husband's Stroganoff! Da da da da!!! Once again, a bowl full of yummy goodness.

Note: I want to tell you that the bowls were cute and small. But after all those courses, we did leave satisfactory full. I usually like to leave a restaurant full to the point of unbuttoning my pants in the car full. I should also note that we snuck in a piece of Raspberry Cheesecake to top off the meal. But we ate it too fast before I could get a picture of it...my apologies, but it was de-lish!

Our beautiful hostess and I believe she is proprietor of the establishment, Elena (Or so I think her name is).

HOURS AND INFO:

1800-2400 Monday - Saturday, CLOSED Sundays
098-863-2206   http://r.gnavi.co.jp/f353400/

DIRECTIONS:

From Kadena Gate 1, go south on 58 toward Naha. You will pass Camps Foster, Futenma and Kinser. You will also pass Arin Krin (Garlic) and Kokusai St. Once you pass Kokusai St. you're gonna want to keep an eye out for this sign:

Now, you will see this sign twice! After the 2nd sign, you'll take an immediate left. Once on this street, you are going to look to your right and you find the Park-per-hour thingies. There are a couple of them so take your pick. There is also one of those tall parking garages nearby so you have plenty to choose from. Once parked, you're going to want to walk down the street going south just a little ways and you will see Perestroika on your right-hand side. There will be this sign directly across from Perestoika.

No relevance here, it helps me to get there though.

Comments

[Staci]

Looks delicious. I'll have to grab my worn out copy of Anna Karenina and go have some borscht!

[stephine]

this all looks delicious-i just wanted to say that the lady thats in the photo looks like a japanese katherine heigl

[Eva]

We just got to Okinawa two weeks ago,we are living on camp kinser and i'm so so glad i found some russian restaurant here.I'm from Lithuania,my mom russian and dad polish,i grew up eating russian food;)cant wait when will can visit this place;)
Russian food is delicious!!!!:)

[Annya]

Hi there Eva from Lithuania, I am Annya from Moscow :) Let me know if you ever want to hit up Perestroika for some Baltika and Russikiy Standart together :)))

[len4ik]

hey guys who is on kinser i just got here and im lokin for some russians to go eat pelmeni with :-)

[Elisa]

Some friends and I decided to try this restaurant last night. First of all, I do want to say that the food was awesome, and the entertainment was lots of fun. BUT, they have 1 cook, and even though the restaurant was not full, it took a long time to get our food. Some of us ordered the full course, while others only ordered the main course. We waited for about an hour before getting the first course of the meal (those who did not order the full course still had to wait). And another hour to finally receive the main course. There is one waitress- the owner of the restaurant, so we had to wait with empty glasses quite a few times. They ran out of Cola and juice halfway through and we had to order other drinks instead. The portions are not large, which has already been said, but I feel I need to say it again because my husband was visibly disappointed upon receiving his main course (the beef medallions is 4 tiny slices of meat). They also ran out of cake for the dessert and we ended up sharing 3 slices between 7 people. Also, it is NOT cheap to eat here. For two people, our bill was about 8100 Yen. The biggest issue we had was the wait. We were there a total of 3 hours between sitting down and finishing dinner, and the majority of that was waiting for food. Service is spotty and somewhat chaotic. Do not eat here if you are already hungry before walking in! Also, if you have small children, the Russian music videos on display on the large screen tv are uncensored and there is partial nudity (We had an 8 year old with us and had to ask them to change it). If you want an authentic Russian experience, it's a great place to go and hang out for 3 hours, but make sure you are not starving and are willing to wait (and pay a lot for it). The food was good, and in the end we were satisfied, but we would not visit again because of the slow service and price.