OREANDA-NEWS. On April 20, 2014 believers from all over the world will celebrate Easter - the biggest and brightest holiday in the Orthodox calendar. This event is preceded by the Lenten Fast, the last week of which is particularly strict. Partners of Moscow Domodedovo Airport offer the passengers a special menu that allows to travel as comfortable as possible during this period.

Annually, seven weeks before the holiday of Easter, Moscow Domodedovo Airport restaurants and cafes update their menus so that you can find attractive offers making it possible to adhere to the canons of the Lenten Fast. So, Shokoladnitsa offers traditional borshch (beet-root soup) with mushrooms, vegetables cooked in different ways, pasta with roasted zucchini: the variety and freshness of works of culinary art gives travelers a chance to keep the fast and at the same time to discover new tastes of familiar dishes. But the most pleasant surprise awaits here cappuccino and latte lovers: especially for passengers who keep the fast, Shokoladnitsa brews coffee using soy milk.

Moscow Domodedovo Airport passengers can enjoy new gastronomic solutions at the Mu-Mu cafe, where the original recipes were developed for the lean menu supplemented by traditional gastronomic offerings. Here, for example, the visitors are offered to try beans in tomato sauce with nuts, to enjoy the subtle taste of sweet-smelling fruit cake and to taste potato casserole with mushrooms.

Lenten meals expertly cooked according to authentic recipes of Russian cuisine are presented by the Elki-Palki restaurant. Here the Moscow Domodedovo Airport guests can enjoy thick soups, grilled vegetables, different salads and a variety of treats made of potatoes, which have become the most popular among the visitors.

The Lenten Fast is considered to be the longest fast and it means not only changing everyday menu, above all, it means observance of spiritual religious canons. Moscow Domodedovo Airport became the first airport in the country, where thirteen years ago an Orthodox chapel began to work. It is located on the second floor of the airport complex and is always open to the guests of the air hub.

Moscow Domodedovo Airport is the largest air hub in Russia, and in 2013, its total passenger traffic amounted 30.76 million people. It falls into the category of the largest airports in Europe and is among the top three fastest growing airports in Europe according to the ACI Europe classification. It is the best airport in Russia and the CIS as rated by Skytrax. Moscow Domodedovo Airport is the base airport in Moscow for member airlines of the largest global airline alliances - Star Alliance and oneworld.