{"id":12448,"date":"2025-03-17T21:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=12448"},"modified":"2026-02-01T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:30:29","slug":"art-depot-restaurant-kaliningrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/art-depot-restaurant-kaliningrad\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Depot Restaurant Kaliningrad is right on track"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mick Hart&#8217;s one-track mind takes him to Art Depot<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>17 March 2025 ~ Art Depot Restaurant Kaliningrad is right on track<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Of all the roles I have played, or wanted to play<\/strong>, I never considered myself to be a second Bruce Reynolds. But here I was, about to pull off in my mind the world\u2019s Second Great Train Robbery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Everything was set; planned to the very last detail. Nothing had been left to chance. The moment my accomplice hit the switch, the moment the lights went down, it would happen; unbeknown to and unseen by everyone, history would repeat itself. And when the lights came up again, as they would on cue, the train and its trucks would still be there, but as for its valuable cargo, all that would remain of that was the empty space where it once had been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This was me then, watching intently as the train and its freight wagons loaded down with beers trundled past at eyebrow height, but with my mind at a lonely railway bridge tucked away in rural Buckinghamshire, which, in the summer of 1963, was about to enter the annals of criminal history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When they finally caught up with Bruce Reynolds, they thought that they had collared the mastermind behind the most audacious heist of all time, but how mistaken they must have been. For had they got it right, I could hardly have been sitting here, in Kaliningrad\u2019s Art Depot Beer Bar, free to monitor the freight cars of booze as they passed mesmerically before my eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Art Depot Restaurant Kaliningrad is right on track<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The less dramatic but no less novel circumstances in which I found myself was that of watching beer and other intoxicants being delivered to customers\u2019 tables by way of a model train. Although it may seem that I am merely substituting a long-held boyhood fantasy for something from <a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/rabbit-hole-gastro-bar-kaliningrad\/\" title=\"Alice in Wonderland\">Alice in Wonderland<\/a>, I am firmly back from both,  biding my time in a world where the clich\u00e9 &#8216;truth is stranger than fiction&#8217; was beginning to make me wonder why my entire life had been challenged by a second-hand lie detector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"830\" data-attachment-id=\"12451\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/art-depot-restaurant-kaliningrad\/ponart-beer-bar-train-rz-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?fit=900%2C1196&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,1196\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ponart Beer Bar Train\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?fit=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?fit=625%2C830&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?resize=625%2C830&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A model train full of beer in Kaliningrad\" class=\"wp-image-12451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?resize=771%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 771w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?resize=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?resize=768%2C1021&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?resize=9%2C12&amp;ssl=1 9w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?resize=624%2C829&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?resize=18%2C24&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?resize=27%2C36&amp;ssl=1 27w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?resize=36%2C48&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Train-rz-min.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I was actually sitting beneath the Gothic-vaulted red-brick ceiling of a series of interconnecting catacombs. Whoops, there it goes again! My imagination wandering at will where it will wilfully wander. Not exactly catacombs, but a subterranean space occupied long ago by an elaborate network of beer cellars belonging to <a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/ponart-brewery-creation-world-exhibition\/\" title=\"Ponart Brewery\">Ponart Brewery<\/a>, which, in the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> and early 20<sup>th<\/sup> centuries was the largest brewery in K\u00f6nigsberg. This environment met my every requirement, blending the architectural style I love with social history, brewery history and my personal history of drinking beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And yet I had not imbibed sufficiently for me to invent the existence of a scaled-down railway that permitted drinks to be conveyed direct from bar to customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Art Depot Restaurant Kaliningrad <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The train-delivery concept is as intriguing, as it is entertaining as it is educational. The train leaves K\u00f6nigsberg station, passes through the suburbs of Kaliningrad as they are today and from there heads out into the past across the K\u00f6nigsberg countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To achieve this effect, models detailed in construction mark the route of the train and the settlements at which it stops, the old German names of which fastened to the wall, by corresponding to the booth-style seating, act like table numbers, enabling the bar staff to literally keep tabs on customers and their tariffs. The miniature version of Kaliningrad\u2019s Central Station (once K\u00f6nigsberg Hauptbahnhof) from which the beer train leaves, stands proudly and unmistakeably, thanks to the accurate portrayal of its 1930s\u2019 postmodern fa\u00e7ade, at the point where all good beer journeys start, which is, of course, the bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" data-attachment-id=\"12475\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/art-depot-restaurant-kaliningrad\/ponart-beer-bar-zelenogradsk-rz-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Zelenogradsk-rz-min.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ponart Beer Bar Zelenogradsk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Zelenogradsk-rz-min.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Zelenogradsk-rz-min.jpg?fit=625%2C833&amp;ssl=1\" data-id=\"12475\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Zelenogradsk-rz-min.jpg?resize=625%2C833&#038;ssl=1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-scaled-down-Svetlogorsk-rz-min.jpg?resize=27%2C36&amp;ssl=1 27w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-scaled-down-Svetlogorsk-rz-min.jpg?resize=36%2C48&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-scaled-down-Svetlogorsk-rz-min.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" data-attachment-id=\"12458\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/art-depot-restaurant-kaliningrad\/ponart-beer-bar-miniature-settlement-rzy-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-miniature-settlement-rzy-min.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-miniature-settlement-rzy-min.jpg?resize=625%2C833&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-miniature-settlement-rzy-min.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-miniature-settlement-rzy-min.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-miniature-settlement-rzy-min.jpg?resize=9%2C12&amp;ssl=1 9w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-miniature-settlement-rzy-min.jpg?resize=624%2C832&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-miniature-settlement-rzy-min.jpg?resize=18%2C24&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-miniature-settlement-rzy-min.jpg?resize=27%2C36&amp;ssl=1 27w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-miniature-settlement-rzy-min.jpg?resize=36%2C48&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-miniature-settlement-rzy-min.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To announce the departure of the train and the onset of one\u2019s drinks, a bell is heard to ring, and the train carrying its valuable cargo steams urgently out of Central Station, travelling via Zelenogradsk ~ observable by its Ferris wheel ~ and off across East Prussia, except in this particular instance, it is charging along the side of the wall heading in one\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"830\" data-attachment-id=\"12452\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/art-depot-restaurant-kaliningrad\/ponart-beer-train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?fit=900%2C1196&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,1196\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ponart Beer Train a coming at you\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?fit=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?fit=625%2C830&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?resize=625%2C830&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Art Depot Kaliningrad Beer Train\" class=\"wp-image-12452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?resize=771%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 771w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?resize=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?resize=768%2C1021&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?resize=9%2C12&amp;ssl=1 9w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?resize=624%2C829&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?resize=18%2C24&amp;ssl=1 18w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?resize=27%2C36&amp;ssl=1 27w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?resize=36%2C48&amp;ssl=1 36w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Train-a-coming-at-you-rz-min.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Being a beer and bar enthusiast but knowing nowt about model railways, except that they make good money at auction, I am unable to enlighten those who are interested in such things as to the track gauge of the railway, but presume that I can safely say that since the train is hauling lovely big pint glasses, the track width must be considerably larger than a Hornby Double O.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I bet that even Bruce Reynolds couldn\u2019t have told you that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" data-attachment-id=\"12453\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/art-depot-restaurant-kaliningrad\/ponart-beer-bar-booth-seating-rz-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ponart-Beer-Bar-Booth-Seating-rz-min.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ponart Beer Bar Booth Seating\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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The train and its precious cargo come to rest on a platform ramped up \u2018viaduct\u2019 style across the length of each table at a height above the seated occupants\u2019 heads. This all goes to make the arrival of one\u2019s eagerly awaited beverages infinitely more exciting, even, from the angle viewed, spectacular, the only drawback being that the supports on which the train track rests tend to get in visions way of normal social interaction with others in your group sitting on the opposite side of the table. This disadvantage, however, may be one concealing a hidden advantage, should, for example, the company you are in necessitate some subtle moves on the social evening\u2019s chessboard, viz &#8216;Amanda Woke is a bit of a lefty, we\u2019ll hide her behind that strut!&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The novelty of Art Depot Restaurant&#8217;s train network and the modern predilection for photographing everything, whether it moves or not, is not without an intrinsic risk, for should you be distracted and not act quickly enough to remove the cargo on arrival, the train can suddenly reverse, causing more than a mild hysteria as it makes off with your drinks back to the bar from whence it came.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mick-Hart-Olga-Hart-at-Ponart-Beer-Bar-its-rz-min.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It may strike you as rather odd that a beer bar housed in a former beer cellar located beneath a former brewery is not thematically predisposed to the matter of beer production, but the railway as a feature is not without connection both to the brewery itself and to the district in which the brewery stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">A long while ago &#8230; and now<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One hundred and seventy-five years ago, Ponart was little more than a village waiting to be subsumed by the expanding city of K\u00f6nigsberg. During this dynamic period, the district&#8217;s major employers were Schifferdecker\u2019s Ponart Brewery and, from the 1860s to the 1900s, the Prussian Eastern Railway, which eventually came to be known as the Royal Prussian State Railways.&nbsp;The development of the railway system in East Prussia and Russia significantly impacted K\u00f6nigsberg&#8217;s commerce, stimulating demand for enlargement of the workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The resultant influx of labourers generated a need for the provision of homes close to the industries the workforce would be servicing. The high-density living created by these converging influences can effectively be quantified from an observation of the housing stock type, which predominantly comprises three-storey flats built as a series of uniform terraces, and also from an estimation of the close proximity of the Pomart Brewery to the railway\u2019s rolling-stock marshalling yard, which is crossable by a through-truss Bridge, acting as the gateway from the centre of the city to this erstwhile working-class neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">So let that be a lesson to you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Also go to: <a href=\"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/tolstoy-art-cafe-kaliningrad-its-a-novel-experience\/\" title=\"Tolstoy Art Cafe\">Tolstoy Art Cafe<\/a> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">If you think that a model train delivering beer to your table is a whimsy of a thing, it will do you no harm to know that at Art Depot Restaurant the railway theme ends not at your table but follows you into the toilets. Not the train itself, or the station master or the ticket collector, but piped noises you would expect to hear at a busy railway station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Now, toilets are hallowed places with particular sounds of their own, so it is vitally disconcerting to hear the outside world inside of them; indeed extremely difficult when it&#8217;s &#8220;All aboard!&#8221; and the whistle blows to divorce yourself from the governing fantasy that you are actually in a station loo. Blast! I thought, having heard the whistle shrilling, the carriage doors slamming and the train a chuff, chuff, chuffing as it left without me down the tracks. I had only gone and missed the 8.30 to Nowhere! There was nothing more that I could do. Well, what else could I do? I would have to go back to the waiting room, sink another beer or two and hope that anyone watching me would mistake me for being anyone else but the man they thought I wasn\u2019t: &#8220;That&#8217;s him! That&#8217;s not <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Reynolds\" title=\"Bruce Reynolds\">Bruce Reynolds<\/a>!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Copyright \u00a9 2018-2025 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-800aba303429bf2eb781e89874d1d7d0\"><strong>The main thing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Art Depot Restaurant <\/strong><br>Kaliningrad, Sudostroitelnaya st., 6-8<br>(on the territory of the historical quarter &#8216;Ponart&#8217;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tel (reservations):<\/strong> +7 (963) 295 74 95<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Opening times<\/strong><br>Mon to Fri: 11am to 10pm<br>Sat &amp; Sun: 12pm to 11pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/artdepo39.ru\/\">Art Depot Restaurant<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick Hart&#8217;s one-track mind takes him to Art Depot 17 March 2025 ~ Art Depot Restaurant Kaliningrad is right on track Of all the roles I have played, or wanted to play, I never considered myself to be a second Bruce Reynolds. 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