The best restaurants Russia

Two very large halls in this brewery that was the rallying point of the Soviet intelligentsia and counted in its walls some Nobel Prizes and quite a few dissidents who had to flee during the Brejnean years. From that time there is only the beautiful Art Nouveau décor. The new middle class invaded this place, which is not lacking in charm. The spacious dining room with its evening concerts is complemented by a more cozy bar. The menu (highly furnished) offers Russian and European dishes at affordable prices. Next to the restaurant, Metropol offers a "gastropub" which serves excellent home-brewed beers as well as a beautiful bakery shop, all located in the same building.

Although it doesn't look good at first glance on its very classic façade, this small restaurant specialized in streetfood from all over the world (especially the famous Berlin kebab) is known for its nude industrial decor mixing concrete and bright colors (very instragrammable), its affordable prices and a very good coffee. You will find there as well Australian long black as Russian raf. Some very simple desserts will help to make your little coffee break a delicious stopover for an early supper in the middle of the crowd of regulars.

This trendy place combines a restaurant, a cocktail bar and a contemporary art gallery in a design spirit with red brick walls and high ceilings. This gigantic loft, housed in a former lighting factory (louch in Russian means "the ray of light"), houses contemporary art by well-known Russian artists and attracts a "have you seen me" audience. The program includes excellent cocktails, a refined menu and good international cuisine. Dress and furnish your wallet accordingly if you are in the mood.

Skewer of venison, pelmeni with bear meat, Lena sturgeon carpaccio. Here you can taste the specialities of the Russian regions (Siberia, the Urals, the Far East and the Far North) in a falsely rustic but truly warm setting. Plan to spend a whole evening here

This place alsooffers relaxation in a banya and shopping on the ground floor in a trophy shop: for example, next to the equipment needed to go on an expedition, you can buy chapkas and mittens but also the skin of a brown bear.

One of the 5 star hotels in the heart of Moscow with a beautiful terrace overlooking the Kremlin. You can eat from Armenian or European cuisine or sip a cocktail while watching Red square. 

It is mainly for the splendid view of Moscow which opens from this panoramic restaurant, but also to see the famous and impressive building dating back to the 1970 s of the Academy of Sciences of Russia. The place is often chosen by Moscovites for romantic dinners or simply for evenings between friends. Its fusion cuisine will delight the finest palates. Taste the famous duck-based bortsch, served with apples and ducks or crab pelts. Reservation recommended.

Certainly one of the best terraces in the city, Terrassa does not steal its name or reputation. The view of the Notre-Dame-de-Kazan Cathedral and a little further on the Nevski perspective is exceptional. The cuisine is a mixture of European and Asian influences, but without forgetting Russian traditions. As is often the case in this type of restaurant, the prices are quite high (especially for drinks) but the setting and the quality of the cuisine are well worth the price. In the summer, the terrace is often taken, so it is advisable to make a reservation.

In the brewery of the hotel Kempisky, we are right next to the holy saints. Through the windows of the restaurant offering a 360 ° view, all the wonders of the center of Petersburg are discovered. The green tones and gold roofs of the Ermitage are so close that we could touch them. Clients are tourists and Russians who discuss business or love. The view is the main asset but the food is also good and proposes what is most fine in Russian gastronomy, including the Kamtchatka crab, Caspian caviar or sturgeon tartare.

Once you have passed the facade and its wall covered with flowers and climbing plants, you arrive in a large convivial space where the chef happily mixes Russian and European cuisine. Trendy thirty-somethings or quadras come to tell each other about the past weekend and to prepare the weekend to come. In short, at Le Zoom, you come to spend a good time with friends or family, and you are not disappointed! It's very easy to come with children because a special area is provided where the little ones can have fun.

The Tsar's large room actually evokes the imperial moods of the late th century, with light light and night. A room brin in this restaurant in the centre, which is especially full in the evening. The public is quite chic, especially Russians, because this new address is not yet known to tourists. Fine Russian cuisine, including fish dishes, great choice of vodkas. There are also specialities from all the empire. As a result, you can enjoy the Siberian pelmenis, as well as a reindeer dish with wild bilberries (1 200 RUB), a great speciality of the great Russian North. The Tsar also offers a very good breakfast, which makes it possible to enjoy the decor without necessarily ruining you.

Probably one of the best Georgian restaurants in the city right now. Careful and intimate decor, traditional but innovative cuisine... You should be able to taste everything, but we recommend the shashlikis (marinated and grilled meat or fish), the khinakali, these large meat ravioli with tarragon filling, and the khachapouri, this typical bread dough stuffed with cheese and available in as many recipes as there are villages in Georgia. Devil-friendly and good for licking your fingers!

We'll tell you right off the bat, not everyone will like this restaurant. It plays with the fashionable concept of raw food, where everything is left cooked and made of food assembling, it is also resolutely vegan and plays with the concept of medicinal cuisine. Whether you appreciate the principle or not, it's a culinary adventure that we advise you as such, in addition to being in a very calm (isolated at the bottom of a courtyard) and trendy setting. The little extra is the price: you can have several dishes and drinks for cheap.

As word of mouth has taken hold, the place is becoming more and more fashionable. Indeed, Sapiens Est combines a minimalist and elegant design interior reminiscent of the city's many lounge bars, with a modern kitchen, attentive, highly efficient staff, and extremely competitive prices for Moscow in general, and the city centre in particular. If the high quality of the dishes served or the kindness and smiles of the staff cannot convince you to come back, the excellent value for money of the establishment is hard to ignore!

Vegan and without fuss, this establishment aims above all to gather its customers around the love for its cuisine. Thus, it chooses a rather simple canteen whose decor makes you feel at ease. It is a successful bet, and its good food at very affordable prices gives this Moscow restaurant chain a solid place on the vegan scene in the capital. Faced with the poverty of vegan choices in Moscow, Avocado Café offers a rich menu that includes cuisines from all over the world: Mexico, France, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, etc.

The popular and trendy food market concept could not fail to affect the gastronomic capital of the country. Don't be put off by the fact that Eat Market is located on the top floor of a shopping mall. Far from being a food court, it offers more than 40 food shops from all over the world: Asian cuisine, Serbian cuisine, cheese stands, dried fruits from Armenia, poké, Belgian waffles, Vietnamese, Indian and more. If you don't find what you're looking for, you're not really hungry.

A typical bar but with an exotic approach to cuisine. At Larisa's, you can enjoy Central Asian cuisine... and chebureks, as the name of the place suggests. This puff pastry filled with a mixture of onions and minced meat cooked in a frying pan, or on a stove as at Larisa, comes from the Crimean Tatar cuisine. Not forgetting the classic lagman, plov, manti, etc. Everything is served on beautiful traditional Uzbek plates.

The only restaurant hovering over the Moskva. You are actually in the Bagration premises and the panoramic windows of the Most Restaurant & Lounge offer a picturesque view of the Krasnopresnenskaya quay, the Moscow skyscrapers and the government residence. During the holidays, the restaurant becomes the best platform to watch the fireworks. To get a place in the front row, you don't need to pay a deposit - you can reserve a table at the Most restaurant for free.

"Lapin, cours" is a small and very nice pastry shop, a rare species in town because it is 100% vegan and certified without animal products. Sweets or large cakes, macaroons, cupcakes, cookies, brownies, pastries ... the menu changes every day. And if you are diabetic or gluten intolerant, the "rabbit" takes the lead to offer you delights adapted to your diet. Breakfasts (also vegan) are served every day until 9pm.

The new Russian gastronomy challenges the French cuisine! If a few years ago, its weak point was the bakery-pastry side, this is not really the case anymore. This chain (pronounced "Bouchée") is the proof. Everything here is appealing, from the homemade sandwiches to the sweets. Try the famous Raspberry Venzel (Вензель с малиной) which is a real treat! Most of the stores (more than 30) offer breakfast and ready-made meals, to be enjoyed on the spot or taken away. Practical, beautiful and good!

Establishment of a small chain of restaurants specializing in seafood. Not surprisingly, you will find crabs from Kamchatka, mussels, shrimps from Magadan (a Siberian seaport). But one comes here especially to taste the crayfish so prized in the south of Russia. The prices are not cheap (0.5 kg of crayfish at 1,900 RUB) but if you have never tasted real Russian crayfish traditionally accompanied by a small mousse, here is the promise of a beautiful gastronomic adventure.

Extend your trip to the Hermitage by this restaurant located practically opposite the museum. In a sumptuous setting, the Petrov-Vodkin, 2 rooms dedicated to zakouskis (the famous Russian tapas) in all their forms, the ^3rd room is dedicated to à la carte service. On the tapas side, let yourself be tempted by the seafood of the Russian Far East, caviar, pancakes, cold meats and solenias... The tapas counter stretches further than your eyes can see. The tapas counter stretches further than your eyes can see. Among the attractive offers are Russian à la carte menus and all-you-can-eat borscht on Sundays.

One of the highest panoramic restaurants in the world with a breathtaking view of Moscow. With its contemporary and luxurious setting combining restaurant, lounge and club, it would not be out of place in a commercial with George Clooney or in the next James Bond movie. The chef of the establishment, Alexander Raylan, makes our taste buds sing with his cuisine bringing together Europe and Asia. Here the table is always a delight, so the Birds regularly offers new gastronomic shows and artistic performances.

It's a restaurant, yes, very chic too with a panoramic view on the Red Square. You can of course come and eat their very high quality cuisine, but we recommend the place for its vodka. Indeed, the place belongs to the famous brand of vodka Beluga whose reputation is not to be made any more. The bar is different from the others, in that it declares itself a "caviar brewery". You can enjoy vodka-caviar tastings that are guaranteed to be among the best in the city! But you'll have to pay the price.

In the Sever café (word meaning "North" in Russian), nestled in the heart of the StrEAT gastronomic market, you can find typical dishes from the Russian Arctic, reinterpreted according to the modern tastes of the capital's city dwellers. On the menu: hamburger with salmon and baked vegetables (490 RUB - 7 €), whitefish fillet with ratatouille (550 RUB - 7.80 €), reindeer tartar (450 RUB - 6.40 €). As you can see, all in all it's a good and cheap way to enjoy traditional products, especially from hunting and fishing in nature.

This pretty café with its country and colourful decor is probably the best address in town when it's time to sit down to dinner. Here you can order local and Russian dishes, but also good meat dishes and some Italian specialities. The whole is very refined and presented in neat plates. The desserts are superb and the cocktail menu is impressive. But beware, sometimes you can wait a long time between courses.

Urozhay is a small restaurant located within the Red October Cluster and a good and cheap alternative to other local restaurateurs. It offers mainly fast food and street food American style, burgers/fries but also some local, Asian and Ukrainian cuisine. You will eat well whatever you order, but before you sit down pay attention to the crowds, the restaurant really doesn't handle its service well when it is under pressure and you might have a bad experience.