Restaurants

Cafe des Artistes (French/Swiss)
5/6 Kamergersky Pereulok
Metro: Okhotnyi Ryad
Tel: (495) 292-4042

"Cafe des Artistes has a lovely outdoor seating area on a pedestrian street. It is really pleasant during nice weather, with excellent food." — Tom Thomson

Chaikhona No. 1 (Uzbek)
9 Ul. Krymsky Val (in Gorky Park)
Metro: Oktyabrskaya
Tel: (495) 778-1756, 2pm - last customer

"Uzbek restaurant next to the Moscow river in the middle of Gorky Park. They have great outdoor seating with cushions, tobacco pipes and really great food. It's a really pleasant place to sit and enjoy the nature and afterwards you can walk through the park." — Dominique Winther

Cheese (Syr) (Italian)
16 Sadovaya-Samotechnaya Ulitsa
Metro: Belorusskaya
Tel: (495) 209-7770, 209-7247

"Another restaurant masterpiece by Arkady Novikov, a well-known restauranteur. The best place for Italian food in Moscow!" — Nastya Taratina

"Syr has a great interior, excellent food, incredible service and an ambiance that is really unmatched. I really like Syr!" — Tom Thomson

Club Petrovich (Russian)
24 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, bldg. 3
Metro: Chistye Prudy
Tel: +7 (495) 923-0082
www.petrovich.ru/club/

"True Russian kitsch. This place has authentic Soviet decorations and items, with high quality Russian food, salsa dancing, live music and plenty of Russian celebrity sightings." — Katie High

GOA (Indian/Southeast Asian)
8/2 Myasnitskaya Street
Metro: Kuznetsky Most/Turgenevskaya
Tel: +7 (495) 504-4031

"Exotic cuisine and live Djs give GOA a great atmosphere. Some of the best European Djs come and perform at GOA, which is a mix between a restaurant and club." —
Nastya Taratina

Green (Catalonian)
12 Kutuzovsky Prospekt
Metro: Kievskaya/Kutuzovsky Prospekt/Park Pobedy
Tel: +7 (495) 243-6407

"Green has the best selection of fresh seafood in Moscow." — Nastya Taratina

Goodman Steak House
Novinsky b-r, 31, Novinsky Passazh, 2nd floor
Metro: Barrikadnaya
Tel: +7 (495) 981-4941

Tverskaya str., 23
Metro: Tverskaya
Tel: +7 (495) 937-5679

Leninskiy pr., 57
Metro: Leninskiy Prospekt
Tel: +7 (495) 135-5191
www.goodman-steak.ru

"The best place in Moscow for a steak, and one of the few that can actually cook it how you want it! Wonderful side dishes, good service (most of the time) and comfortable interior. Highly recommended!" — Dominique Winther

Hard Rock Cafe
44 Ul. Arbat
Metro: Smolenskaya

"This is the best place to go for authentic American food in Moscow - great nachos, hamburgers and hot fudge brownie sundaes!" — Katie High

Nota Bene (French)
Michurinsky Pr., 9, bldg. 1
Tel: (495) 932-90-46

"Really nice French restaurant located near Universitet metro. Very nice carpaccio, great meat and delicious salads. Very interesting interior with murals of France on the walls. Very good wine selection and great service." — Dominique Winther

Santa Fe (Latin American)
Mantulinskaya str., 5/1, building 6
Metro: Ulitsa 1905 Goda
Tel: (495) 256 14 87, 256 21 26, noon-midnight, Thu-Sat noon-3am

"Mexican restaurant with great fajitas, burritos and other delicatessens. Great food, live band on weekends and evenings and great atmosphere. Don't miss their Argentinean steaks - mouth-watering!" — Dominique Winther

Scandinavia (International)
7 Maly Palashevsky Pereulok
Metro: Tverskaya/Pushkinskaya
Tel: +7 (495) 200-4986

"Great, really tasty food - particularly entertaining on Sundays when the Swedish people come and start drinking early on!" — Mike Goncharov

Shokolad (French/Japanese)
5 Bolshoi Putinkovsky Pereulok
Metro: Chekhovskaya, Tverskaya, Pushkinskaya
Tel: +7 (495) 787-8866

Uley (fusion)
7 Gasheka Ulitsa
Metro: Mayakovskaya
Tel: +7 (495) 797-4333

"Uley is really cozy, with soft couches and a dining area that is nicely lit. It was one of the first fusion restaurants in Moscow and remains the best." — Nastya Taratina

Vremya Yest (Bavarian beer restaurant)
1/2 Ulitsa Lesnaya
Metro: Belorusskaya
Tel: +7 (495) 250-9764, 251-6873

"Vremya Yest is a great place to go for beer and food that goes along well with it. It is inexpensive and really tasty!" — Elena Shouliveystrova

The Zin Restaurant (French)
22/31 Sadovaya-Triumphalnaya
Metro: Mayakovskaya
Tel: +7 (495) 209-7053

"This is the place to go if you are a wine connoisseur. The view is spectacular!" —
Nastya Taratina

Other useful links:

www.restoran.ru — Here you can find many popular restaurants in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novgorod, Saratov, Sochi. Additionally, you can find hotels and beauty salons in each town. All the information is available in Russian, English, German and French.

www.moscowout.ru — Also a very useful and informal website about restaurants, night life, concerts in Moscow. All information both in Russian and English.

www.expat.ru — A useful site for foreigners in Moscow. Information on everything you might need to plan your trip or your weekend, if you are here for the long haul.