Indian-fusion restaurant Indus has revamped its menu. Among new soups and salads are tiger prawn and avocado salad with a mango seasoning (850 rubles) and asparagus and prawn cream soup (580 rubles). New hot starters include Sikh chicken kebab with potato chat (540 rubles) and cauliflower with chili and ginger under soy sauce (280 rubles). Hot mains introduced include prawns in sweet and sour sauce with rice noodles (770 rubles) and, interestingly, Indian-style beef Stroganoff (890 rubles).

15 Plotnikov Per., 244-7979, M. Smolenskaya.

Asian seafood restaurant Market has announced two new special promotions. The first concerns the classic combination -- oysters and wine. Until December, five varieties of fresh oysters are being served, ranging in price from 220 rubles for Claire No. 1 up to 550 rubles for king Japanese. Accompanying the oysters is a specially selected Bourgeois wine list (2,900-9,700 rubles). The second promotion offers a new selection of Cantonese dishes. Among the new Chinese dishes are marinated vegetable salad with grill-fried eel (1,150 rubles), wok-fried salmon and vegetables in chili sauce Cantonese-style (680 rubles), and the perhaps slightly adapted fried balls of prawn, calamari and foie-gras with spinach (480 rubles). The new Cantonese menu is available until spring.

18 Sadovaya Samotyochnaya Ul., Bldg. 1, 650-3770/4131, M. Tsvetnoi Bulvar.

The virtual-reality bar and restaurant Versia 1.0 has had an autumn upgrade, becoming Versia 1.5. A new room has been added and the interior design has been tweaked -- but don't worry, the virtual-reality hall is still functioning.

3 Ul. Varvarka, 647-1303/4, M. Kitai-Gorod.

-- Nathan Toohey