
Andrey Merzlyakov
Owner of the Madame Bouchet café chain, the VDNKh bakery chain, and the Standaimm 99 restaurant
«Madame Bouchet» is a refined piece of French aesthetics in Kaliningrad. Family restaurant, where everything is cooked with heart. The relaxed aristocratic atmosphere of deliberateness cultivates the culture of simple pleasures of a beautiful life.
Standaimm 99 is a place with history, a restaurant with regional cuisine. It creates old and modern recipes from the products of the region.
VDNH (transcript: «You Worthy of Tasty Bread») is «a cozy, traditional bakery for people in the neighborhood.» The real bread and natural ingredients.
The hand-crafted production includes both Andrew’s wife and son.
It is truly an artisan bakery. Everything can be observed by any visitor: the flour, the bakers, the whole process of kneading dough. It sells 14 types of bread and curd rings, which are sold in the amount of 1,000 each day and have become legendary.
«We’re not chasing fashion; instead, we’re looking at what people like. We weren’t aiming to make a fancy place, but to make the right place.»