Located on the Brighton Beach boardwalk, Tatiana is also something of an anomaly. Note the absurdly lavish decor, the hybrid menu of traditional Russian food and American classics (for their mixed ...

Brighton Beach has no shortage of tiny Central Asian eateries, but few will satisfy the dumpling and pierogi lover quite like Varenichnaya. There are roughly ten different varieties of pelmeni ...

An artilleryman fires a self-propelled howitzer at Russian troops near the town of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. (Photo: Oleg Petrasiuk, Handout from Ukrainian army to Reuters, via OSV) ...

Alex Frank, 29, whose boardwalk restaurant and nightclub Tatiana is also featured in the indie flick, said the movie hasn’t made waves among the Russian Brighton Beach community, but believes ...

Brighton Beach Memoirs: Sean Baker and Mikey Madison on Anora How the new movie immerses itself in NYC's Russian enclave By Richard Whittaker, 10:45AM, Wed. Oct. 30, 2024 ...

Like Ani, I grew up on Brighton Beach, the Russophone neighborhood in south Brooklyn, N.Y., and the backdrop of Baker’s film, in theaters Oct. 18.

It’s not the only casualty in recent years in Brighton Beach, spots like Cafe at Your Mother-in-Law, one of the only restaurants to serve Korean Uzbek cuisine in New York, closed its doors in 2020.

The name belonged to her Russian-Jewish great-grandmother, so it’s fitting that we’re meeting inside Varenichnaya, a quaint Russian restaurant in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach.

Skovorodka, meaning “skillet” in Russian, is a Ukranian restaurant about a five-minute walk down Brighton Beach Avenue from Kashkar Cafe. A large, ferocious bear stands guard at the entrance.

The Brighton Jubilee will take over its namesake nabe and thoroughfare this Sunday when it returns for the 45th year of fun for the whole family. The annual street fair is organized each year by the ...