bifshteks

On the menu were chicken soup with noodles, “bifshteks” — a form of hamburger patty — and sliced cucumber salad. The soup was actually quite good, but the bifshteks were on the greasy side.

1976 September 12, Ron Oechsler, Debra Oechsler, “Eight Days on the Train? You’re Crazy!”, in Sunday World-Herald Magazine of the Midlands (The Omaha World-Herald), Omaha, Neb., page 19, column 3

One of the first places you come to heading up the street from Okhotny ryad, Kafe Sadko, is actually a cut above the others, with waiters, individually prepared food, and drinks: a bifshteks, chicken or fish main course is around US$5.

1996 July, John Noble, Andrew Humphreys, Richard Nebeský, Nick Selby, George Wesely, John King, “Moscow – Places to Eat”, in Russia, Ukraine & Belarus (a Lonely Planet travel survival kit), Hawthorn, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 291, column 1

There was little variety in the daily fare of “kasha” (hot whole grain cereal), bread, “bifshteks” (a hard lump of beef) and potatoes.

2004 November 28, Karla Cruise, “Russia today: Study in curious contrasts”, in South Bend Tribune, Michigan edition, 132nd year, number 265, South Bend, Ind.: South Bend Tribune Corp., page F4, column 3

Bifshteks is a slice of broiled beef and can be almost any cut of steak, not tenderloin as sometimes translated on the menu (regrettably for the eager diner).

2005, Glenn R[andall] Mack, Asele Surina, “Eating Out”, in Food Culture in Russia and Central Asia (Food Culture around the World), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 139

Kids’ menus are uncommon, but you shouldn’t have much problem getting the littl’ uns to guzzle bliny or bifshteks – Russian-style hamburger served without bread, and often topped with a fried egg.

2006 March, Simon Richmond, Mark Elliott, Patrick Horton, Steve Kokker, John Noble, Robert Reid, Regis St Louis, Mara Vorhees, “Food & Drink”, in Russia & Belarus, 4th edition, Hawthorn, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 115