The best restaurants Russia

Refined Ukrainian cuisine in this modern restaurant with a wooded decor. If you haven't already done so, take the opportunity to taste the borscht of course, but this time take care to accompany it with salo. Salo is thin slices of spicy, marinated bacon that are eaten raw, spread on dark bread with preferably mustard. The bacon is very cold, is anything but stringy and melts in the mouth. The spicy taste works wonders with the sweetness of borscht.

Rustic and warm, this family restaurant of traditional Russian cuisine is decorated in the style of a country house and decorated with many folk details. The menu gives pride of place to specialities from regions of Russia prepared according to old recipes. Musical evenings are frequently organised and a small corner for children (with domestic rabbits) is available. The grocery shop of the restaurant offers solenias, flavoured liqueurs, honey or the famous Russian tea Ivan Tchai! Smart address.

The Grably chain is a valuable ally for tourists in Moscow. With its 10 locations strategically placed near the major sites of the city, a visitor is never far from a Grably during his wanderings. Always installed in large rooms with simple decor (for the capital) that evoke rurality, you can eat well, healthily and for very little money. A small plus: the fact that you can see the dishes on the display buffets is practical for non-Russian speakers. This saving chain also makes breakfasts.

Uzbek cuisine very refined. Pleasant terrace for summer.

This small café-restaurant with the design of an English bar and a Friends atmosphere is always busy and popular, especially with students. For a few rubles, you can eat delicious salads or hot sandwiches, mushroom pies and milkshakes. The lunch menu offered during the week is very reasonably priced. And what's more, the portions are generous. Be careful, you take your order at the bar and wait to be called. A good address for a quick lunch break between visits to the city.

There are many Georgian restaurants in Moscow, but it is rare to find the exact same flavours that you can enjoy in Tbilisi. Settled for many years in a discreet street, this house welcomes you in its 3 rooms and on its charming terrace. If you were to test only a Georgian restaurant or wanted to taste something else from this cuisine than the triptych khachapuri (bread dough stuffed with cheese) or khinkali (large meat ravioli), despite the fact that it is perfectly executed, this is the place to come!

This new creation by Vladimir Mukhin is a great success. He has always had a great sense of staging and spatial design without ever letting it turn into a show-off or take precedence over gastronomy. The bar is managed by Anatoly Kazakov. The cuisine here tends to showcase Russian products and gastronomy. As such, the Russian tasting menu has its full place in any tourist visit to Moscow: 7 dishes accompanied by 6 glasses of wine. The menu is based on the sommelier's choice of wines.

We come here for the excellent cocktails, to discover a new craft beer, to taste a succulent burger or to have a makeover. Yes, Pif-Paf is a 3-in-1 establishment, a bar, a restaurant and a hair salon all in one. On the bar side, the great classics are perfectly mastered. On the kitchen side, opt for the house specialty. The black burger with squid ink is a best seller - the famous Reykjavík which combines Atlantic herring, salted cucumbers, pickled onion and mini apple pancake. Serve it with a very good Bloody Mary.

In the middle of the activity and noise of the Nevski perspective, the House of Dramatic Artists, housed in an old palace, shelters, a delicious reward for the curious mind, an intimate café that offers simple and inexpensive cuisine. The monumental building does not announce the colour (no menus or names visible). The small café on the ^1st floor serves zakouskis and Russian classics. This institution has survived through the ages, and we meet actors and intellectuals who have come to have a drink with friends. Atmosphere, atmosphere...

Korchma Taras Bulba is a chain of Ukrainian restaurants where the waiters are dressed in traditional clothes, the walls are lined with embroidery and plastic vine leaves, the tables are covered with colourful tablecloths... In short, it's very folkloric, even kitsch, but it's worth the detour to try the Ukrainian version of borscht, stewed rabbit, or vareniki, a Ukrainian variant of pelmeni, filled with potatoes or red fruits.

You will quickly discover how similar Slavic cuisines are.

This Azeri restaurant chain is a visit in itself: a true inner courtyard on the shores of the Caspian Sea, a warm traditional welcome with servers in Azerbaijani folk costume. This restaurant, known as one of the favourites of the famous Russian Leningrad pop group during their Moscow tours, offers an unbeatable quality/price ratio. A cuisine with oriental flavours, spicy, exotic and exotic. The place has acquired its letters of nobility thanks to its buffet, sufra, to 390 Rubles, offering fresh and marinated vegetables, meat dishes typical meat stew, dried fruit: You can order a plate, that you can fill it widely and ask for additional plates… Desserts are delicious, from bakhlava to nuts or rose jam, that you enjoy with tea with thyme.

The chachliks are between 240 and 350 R, the dolma at 260 R. But the piquant side of the restaurant is not its kitchen. bech bech means Azeri 5 and 6. If you order a jug of wine, the servers bring two dice that can be thrown. If you get figures 5 and 6, the house offers a second jug.

This restaurant is considered one of the best in the city. Russian and Caucasian cuisine.

Hamlet+Jacks is a must for lovers of creative, subtle and masterful cuisine. Nestled in a discreet street in the Golden Triangle, in a sober industrial setting, and with a terrace that is particularly pleasant on sunny days, Hamlet+Jacks happily combines contemporary Russian gastronomy, a young and friendly atmosphere and very affordable prices. The wine list (including many Russian producers) is also particularly well thought out and adapted to the small seasonal menu. A must !

Somewhat hidden at the end of the corridor on the top floor of the Goum, the famous canteen is not only a tasty and cheap place, but also a real time machine. You are propelled back to the 1960s: from the waiters' uniforms to the lacy tablecloths and even the dishes, everything is reminiscent of the Soviet era. The food is quick and good, and the prices are unbeatable for Red Square and the Kremlin area. The impressive queue sometimes gives rise to beautiful encounters between gourmets.

The name says it all: Pelmenya serves pelmeni, all pelmeni, but all pelmeni! These are Russian ravioli (usually with fresh herbs and cream), but they are served here from all over the world. You will find all the variations of Russian pelmeni, but also ravioli (Italy), dim sum (China), khinkalis (Georgia), gyoza (Japan), vareniki (Ukraine), khanum (Uzbekistan), mantis (Central Asia, from Turkey to the Uyghur country), maultaschen (German region of Swabia), etc. Local and global!

This restaurant will make you happy with Asian cuisine! Rather than the usual cuisines, this restaurant offers specialties of the nomadic peoples of Russia: Mongols, Buryats, etc. The Buryats (Buddhist people living in Russian Siberia) frequent the place, which is always a sign of quality. As a main course, we recommend bouzy - ravioli stuffed with minced beef or lamb - also served as a soup - bantan soup - with a rich broth enhanced with pieces of beef and lamb.