Troika gone, now Shashlik closing

Shashlik is closing. I have not been there probably a good twenty years. I still remember the authentic baked Alaska they served quite different from the toy version I sometime had at the NUSS Guild House.

But it isn't Shashlik that I am interested in. Our parents used to take us to its predecessor: Troika.

Then we stopped. I can't remember why. My last time there was also the first time I went without my parents. I took my GF there, now my wife for a birthday celebration and used the Gold Amex supp card my dad gave me. This is common now but quite rare in the 80s. I finally returned him the card a few years later and got my own when I started working.