Long before she staged her own Slavic food pop-up, Katya Simkhovich learned to cook in her grandmothers’ kitchens, where homemade rye bread was topped with sour cream, honey cake baked in the oven and borscht simmered on the stove.
A Massachusetts native raised by Russian immigrant parents, Simkhovich began sharing those childhood staples shortly after moving to New Orleans in 2023 with her pop-up Dom Zakuski, or “house of snacks.”
Now she’s opening a brick and mortar in the building that housed Horns Eatery for more than a decade in the Marigny…