The best restaurants Anneau d'Or russe

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

An address that is a sensation among lovers of fine Italian cuisine, developed as an open gastronomic workshop. Created by Uilliam Lamberti and Alexei Alekminsky, Sartoria is designed like a Neapolitan tailor shop that specializes in gastronomy. Don't miss the specialties: truffle and goat cheese risotto, cheerful salads with wild salmon and mango, or homemade spaghetti with crab. The all-you-can-eat brunches at weekends are famous. When all-you-can-eat is combined with style and good taste.

The Café Mart has many advantages. It is undoubtedly the key to its success with Moscow's bobos. First of all, the decor: several rooms according to the desired atmosphere. Then there is Georgian cuisine, of which only the best has been kept, with some regional specialties that cannot be found in any other restaurant in Moscow. Small but rich cellar space and a live music program. The location finally, on the Petrovka, just behind the Museum of Contemporary Art whose Mart cafe shares the courtyard (very pleasant in the summer among the statues).

This small restaurant with half a dozen tables is undoubtedly one of the most pleasant intimate brunches in the capital. If the modern and warm setting and the friendly (English-speaking) and delightfully helpful staff don't seduce you, then the food will. The restaurant prides itself on blending Russian and French influences to serve you modern fusion home-cooked food. The French influence is most evident in the desserts, which are to die for, but everything from the coffee to the eggs is sure to please.

It is an oasis of zenitude and Japanese refinement in the heart of the bubbling Moscow. We quickly get to the superlatives with this establishment of excellence, which is undoubtedly the best Japanese and seafood restaurant in Moscow, itself created and nestled in the best hotel in the capital: the Lotte. Here we play a masterful blend of tradition and modernity with an all-Japanese approach: product quality sublimated with simplicity, sophisticated presentation and discreet service. Great art!

Still little known because it has just opened, Depo, with its 11,000 ^m2 (!), is the largest food hall in Europe. Located on the site of a former tram depot, you will find 120 farmer's stalls, 75 fast food corners, shops, restaurants and even a concert hall in this giant food market. You will have a (difficult) choice of specialities from all over the world. We can't advise you enough to go to this unique culinary bazaar: you'll come away amazed, with a full belly and stars in your eyes.

The favourite restaurant of Russian government personalities for their business dinners. No wonder, because here you can taste the famous Kamchatka sea araignés. On the map, more than 300 varieties of seafood and you can choose your fish directly in the aquarium. The staff were friendly and helpful.

Don't hesitate to take a break in the restaurant's shop if you are in this area to enjoy blue lobster, oysters or caviar at the counter at more attractive prices than in the restaurant.