Kachka’s Outdoor Spinoff Is Like a Trans-Siberian TGI Friday’s
In 2018, Kachka—Bonnie and Israel Morales’ all-world love letter to 20th century Soviet cuisine, widely hailed as one of the best Russian restaurants in America—moved from its original home on Southeast Grand Avenue to the Goat Blocks development on Southeast 11th Avenue between Belmont and Taylor Streets. Their new home directly abutted a sprawling, inaccessible parking lot—a vacant asphalt canvas chef Bonnie Morales describes as “chronically underused.”