With old-world charm, an upright piano and some decorative touches of art deco, Polugar Bar and its brother bar in Moscow are the only places where you can find the full range of polugar or bread wine, otherwise known as the original vodka. Drunk in Russia from the time of Peter the Great until the 1895 ban on grain distillates in copper cubes, production was revived in 2009 and sees Polugar Bar offer more than 20 varieties: rye, buckwheat, wheat, barley and so on. Munch on snacks of bread and sauces alongside your bread wine, or enjoy another quirk by bartender Ilya Netsvetaev: the range of liqueurs for all letters of the alphabet.
