Loona Yerevan

Loona sits on Isahakyan Street in Kentron and runs a menu that leans Italian, built around pasta, pizza, risotto and crudo rather than Armenian staples. Breakfast options include the 'ЗОЖ' set (6,000֏), the 'Loona' breakfast (6,100֏), a Royal with salmon and truffle sauce (5,100֏), crab dumplings with red caviar (4,700֏), ricotta-and-cherry dumplings (3,200֏) and a ricotta cheesecake with baked-milk cream (3,300֏). Pasta runs from Arrabiata with shrimp (5,300֏) to Calamarata with crab (9,900֏), Rigatoni with Parma ham (6,100֏), seafood spaghetti (7,600֏), truffle tagliolini (6,300֏) and lasagna (5,500֏). Pizza covers pepperoni (4,800֏), Margherita (4,500֏), Parma ham and stracciatella (7,700֏), eel and stracciatella (7,800֏), gorgonzola and pear (5,700֏), and salmon with red caviar (7,900֏). Crudo plates include a tartare assortment of salmon, tuna and langoustine (5,700֏), smoked eel and avocado tartare (4,700֏), langoustine with tomato and lime (5,600֏), and tuna carpaccio (5,900֏). Risotto options range from Parmigiano (4,100֏) to porcini (5,900֏), langoustine (6,900֏) and the house 'Loona' version (7,600֏). Starters include guinea fowl pâté (5,200֏), shrimp with artichoke hummus (5,100֏) and beef tartare in Italian style (6,300֏). Desserts feature torta al formaggio with raspberry (4,000֏) or persimmon (3,600֏), a lemon tart (3,500֏) and Pavlova with mango and strawberry (4,100֏). Average check runs around 8,000 AMD, suiting anyone wanting an Italian-style meal, a working breakfast or a seafood-forward crudo spread in central Yerevan.