The best Russian restaurants Russia

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.

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.

Here is another concept restaurant, very Instagrammable. In the atmosphere of a Moscow apartment from the 1950s-1970s there are shelves full of books by classic authors, typical china and crystal dishes, all with traditional Russian cuisine made entirely in-house. Loyal customers have their own key to the restaurant, with which they can open the door of the same restaurant in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, London and St. Petersburg. For dinner, it is better to book well in advance!

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.

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.

Here you are in the heart of a veritable Ali Baba's cave, created by the cartoonist Andrei Biljo. Each of the dining rooms has its own atmosphere. A candy rose with old dolls and nostalgic dinners serves the tea room. The large room, where old transistors, improbable fountains and papier-mâché statuettes are piled up, is the dining room. The menu is inspired by the Soviet era. Reservations are required, especially for live music concerts. Thursday is "Back to the 90's" evening, where you can dance the night away.

A rather atypical café for this area, it is part of a chain of 5 Moscow establishments. If your soul requires something real, simple and local, then you won't find better. Delicious cheburekis for 70 rubles with a good glass of cold kvass or kotleta (meatball) with homemade mashed potatoes, all accompanied by a glass of vodka or even vodka arranged with pepper for 230 rubles. In the evening, it is usually crowded, for a good reason: once inside, you don't want to leave!

Varenichnaya N°9 offers simple and tasty Russian home cooking, always cheap. You can enjoy homemade vareniki, sweet or salty (our favorites are the buckwheat and mushroom cream ones), they are all very good! The setting is, as usual, nostalgic Soviet: shelves full of books and trinkets, decoration that refers to apartment interiors. Having tea with sweet vareninki as a snack between visits will be a very good use of your time and a guaranteed relaxation.

It is one of the creations of Alexander Rapoport, an influential restaurateur in Moscow who is often recommended to tourists. Located in the building of the legendary National Hotel, it is a restaurant with an Art Deco decor: white and red tables and seats surrounded by statues, marble works of Soviet artists, marble also on the walls and painted ceilings. The room is sometimes a bit noisy. We recommend the three-meat dumplings with crushed ice and oysters from the Sakhalin Islands, on the borders of Japan.

The restaurant "Russkiy Dvorik" transports its guests back several centuries. The interior of the restaurant is designed in the style of late classicism. The interior decoration is historically accurate, the waiters in folk costumes offer you all the flavors of a real Russian hut. Chef Andrey Louzin revisits traditional Russian cuisine to make Instagrammable dishes. Breakfast menus are named after famous Russian artists, from Chekov to Chaliapin. The whole thing is enjoyable and the dishes delicious.

Named "The Soviet Era", this cheburechnaya announces the colour, which is reflected in the tone of its decoration: posters delivering Lenin's messages, covers of old editions of Pravda on the wall or a logo featuring the sickle and hammer, the Soviet imagination is revived from the comfortable distance of today. In fact, this restaurant has been in existence since the fall of the Wall and since then its prices have been successfully aimed at the popular masses. Thus, it is less than 100 RUB for a shot of vodka with its pickle.

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.

Created by Oleg Menshikov, this restaurant was one of the first to become a speciality of Siberian cuisine among the gourmets of the capital. He had enjoyed it so much during a film shoot in Krasnodar that he decided to share it with Muscovites. A cuisine and products that are now very fashionable. The main room plunges us into the cosy lounges with subdued lights and walls lined with the large Russian residences of the end of the 19th century. The menu changes throughout the year according to the authorized hunting and fishing periods