Shamora — Restaurant in Adelaide

Went in for tea and cake, eager to taste the traditional russian cakes—the flavours of the motherland—medovik and napoleon. Unfortunately these were not even close to the Russian classics, worse still they were low effort. Traditional napoleon is a layer cake lined with a cream frosting, modelled on the French mille-feuille. Layers are meant to be crisp and airy. Cream variations differ, but most have milk, butter and eggs as ingredients. At Shamora... the so-called Napoelon tastes like baked frozen puff-pastry sheets smothered in sweetend condensed milk from a can. A slice of this costs $14!!!! Perhaps people who don't know Russian desserts will find Shamora satisfactory, but you will not experience anything close to the finesse of Russian cakes there. A safer bet is visiting an event at the Russian Community centre, where local ladies will treat you to real Russian desserts made with love. The two stars are for the polite service and nicely...

Friendly staff, nice atmosphere, bit of a waft of meat as I entered not so good for vegetarians but good familiar smell to meat eaters. Once ordered the staff bought me my drink quickly. Even though it was relatively quiet it took a little while for the meal. I had a Dublin Crepe which was an interesting idea. Unfortunately they used a sweet mix on what should be a savoury Crepe so they lost points for that. I think they tried to stuff too much in and it didn’t melt properly. Also the Crepe was super thin and crackly in areas another let down. I get what they were trying to achieve but it’s not quite there yet. For a $17 Crepe it was really only worth about $9. Still cheaper than I expected, paid a total of $20 for the Crepe and a glass bottle of coke. Suggestions would be to change to mix to a savoury one. Get the mix right first. Then make thicker crepes and make sure the ingredients heat up. If they don’t then cheat and put it under the cooker...

This little cafe was surprisingly less busy than many other restaurants on the main strip of Katoomba. The number of open tables is what caused us to stop in; we were very hungry and didn't want to have to wait in a line. We were super pleased to see the range of dumplings that they offered. They had options from Bhutan and Russia! The creamy cheese dumplings from Russia were a delicious. The spicy beef momos from Bhutan were also great. The soups were good too. I think that they make them in-house. The mushroom soup was very creamy and the pumpkin was nice too. I think they both could have used a little extra seasoning and little extra salt. I'd love to try some of the other dumplings they have on offer. They also had this unusual Sout beer available. I couldn't even pronounce the name. It was good though. The staff were lovely and very willing to explain and...