European Cuisine, Moscow

This is VERY nice place for Bulgarian food, stylish interior, nice music

Favorite Dish: As far as wines are concerned, I recommend Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva 1991. Tried also Merlo and another Caberne: Caberne is better than Merlo. As for the food, most of all I like "Salata Appetitka" - so called "eggplant and sweet pepper caviar".

A buzzing modern French style Barsserie with a short but very good menu. Good presentation and taste. A decent wine list with decent prices. A no smoking area and English speaking staff.

Favorite Dish: Egg and bacon ice cream with salty caramel and brioche, original and good!

It’s rather a restaurant with live music than a club.

Fans of jazz and blues music come here, because Igor Butman’s Big Band gig here every Monday. Club parties on Tuesdays, when all the club members get 50% discount at all the menu. Rather popular bands gig here on weekends.

Live jazz, blues, rock-n-roll. Available for banquets. Igor Butman's big band on Mondays. Acustic blues jems on Sundays. Club day on Tuesdays: a 50% discount upon the menu for club members.

Favorite Dish: Jazz : Big band of Igor Butman :)

If you want to relax in some quiet and a bit mysterious place this place is for you.. In Myasnitskaya Street – one of the most hectic central streets of the capital – there is an ancient mansion housing 'Bochonok' (The Keg) – a small restaurant of European, Caucasian and Mediterranean cuisines.
You go downstairs under low vaults and find yourself among grapevine, big-bellied bottles, tiny lamps, clay jugs and home utensils. There are picturesque wall paintings and author's stained-glass windows; the floor is partly transparent, so that visitors, like in a good museum, can see an ancient chest, utensils and a mysterious door leading into the dungeons. Brick ceiling of ancient laying and a show-window with strange carved keys add to the mystery. In the small hall with upholstered furniture, people smoke hookah, drink wine, couples and small friendly companies have dinner, while the bigger hall is more convenient for banquets and family celebrations.

Favorite Dish: Dishes at 'Bochonok' are so attractive that you get carried away when you are looking at it: Chef decorates salads and main dishes with butterflies and decorative pastry figures. On the menu, there is a lot of fish and seafood: 'Tipsy Octopuses', sea scallops with cep mushrooms, 'Flying Seabass' and dorado. They also serve traditional Mediterranean soups – Minestrone, cream soup with asparagus – and European dishes from beef, pork, lamb, foie gras and duck breast fillet. 'Bochonok' offers a great choice for admirers of the Caucasian cuisine: kebabs, including khan-kebab with lamb offal. The main beverage of the restaurant is first of all wine, with a 'compliment' of an iced bottle of home Italian Limoncello. Fans of riddles will find here a very special miracle – a jug invented by Armenians in the 2nd century AD.

Music: Background, Jazz/Blues, Live, Pop/Rock
Clothes: Except for sports
Parking: Is available
Admission: Free
Open: 11.00 until 01.00, Fri, Sat – until 05.00
Offer: Afternoon menu, Beer on Tap, Children Menu, Fish menu, Grill, Grill, Holding Banquets, Meat menu, Service out of the restaurant, Take Away Meals, Vegetarian Menu, Wine by Glass, Wine Cart
Features: Hookah, VIP Hall

If it happens that you will be in Timiryazevskaya district and feel hungry visit this nice beer restaurant. The area of the restaurant is big, but divided into several parts, so it should not be noisy. Food is European and German and is really delicious, big choice of beer. There are tables with beer-cocks in one hall where you can fill glasses with beer by yourself, but don’t keen on it too much and keep it in mind that at the end you will get a bill, which can surprise you ;)

Favorite Dish: “Welder’s soup” with seafood (don’t know if it is real welders’ traditional dish;) ), and for the second serving “Pork steak” pickled in white wine with tomato and spices, served with pickled vegetables….mmmmmm melting in mouth.

***Unfortunately, this place was closed***

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On my trip in October 2009 I met the two most famous VT members of Moscow Andrey (bugulma) and Sergey (Kuznetsov_Sergey) on one evening for dinner. As our first choice of a restaurant was fully booked, we finally ended up in the Restaurant Pizzeria Felicita.

It is actually an Italian restaurant with a large selection of dishes ranging from fish and meat dishes to pizza and pasta. Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly what I had, but it was something with a yummy steak and fries as sides. The prices were reasonable and the waiters were friendly and attentive.

Interesting enough, they don't have any Russian beers on the menu, therefore I decided for a pint of Warsteiner which is actually a beer brand of the region where I live in Germany.

Of course we also ordered vodka, maybe even too much of it, but that's probably a Russian local custom.

Thanks a lot to Andrey and Sergey for an unforgettable Russian VT meeting.

Directions:
The Restaurant Pizzeria Felicita is situated north of the city centre, just near the square Triumfalnaya ploshchad. The nearest metro stop is "Mayakovskaya" on the green line.

Address: Restaurant Pizzeria Felicita, ul. Bol Sadovaya 3, 103001 Moscow

Website: http://www.pizzeria-felicita.ru/

Nubu located at the zoo entrance.It's a very small and cozy cafe that serves the same food as most of th restaurants do.

Favorite Dish: mushroom soup,onion soup,egg plant and pasta with bacon were very tasty as weell as milk shake and tea

This is the best Ukrainian restaurant in Moscow, located across the river from hotel Ukraina.

The interior is executed beautifully to recreate the atmosphere of a Ukrainian village from the XVIII century. There is even an enclosed patio with farm animals and a farm girl feeding them.

The food is excellent, although pricey. If you want a cheaper, less fancy version, try one of the numerous Taras Bulba locations.

Favorite Dish: Try the excellent Borshch soup, Kiev chicken, and most of all the 'Vareniki' with cherry and raspberry sauce. You will never forget the taste!