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From China to Peru
9 Moscow restaurants in which you need to order tables in advance
Moscow has many problems, but what things are fine with is with restaurants. It seems that Muscovites began to travel less, but there is more. Places open like mushrooms, and there are queues in them. There are a lot of good places in the city, which on a holiday or Friday night is almost impossible - you need to book tables in advance, although sometimes this is difficult - for example, among 9 seats that are in this material, 2 have already closed the reservation for February 14th. We made this list together with the Gettable application - the most popular restaurants got into it. Order the tables in advance - and get bonus points. In addition, if you book a table with Meduza promotional code, you will get twice as many points.
Molon Lave
Greek restaurant, from which the fashion for Greek food in Moscow began
Middle check: 1,500 rubles
Address: Bolshaya Georgian, 39
Why go: now you can always get a salad with a generous rag of cheese and giant olives, an octopus on the grill or a piece of lamb in a stove on a tishka. The chef and Su-chef are real Greeks: which create food with imperishable names (bells of bells are such zucchini croquettes).
What they write: “According to the certificate of the chef of Stamatis, the entire menu is almost one hundred percent Greek-the issue of bringing to the ideal rests on the products and product policy of our country. Nevertheless, four suitcases of Greek seasonings brought by the chef should be enough for at least six months. ” (Buro 24/7)
Saxon + Parole
An exemplary New York restaurant with cocktails (including literally: the place is opened with the participation of those who opened the institution of the same name on Manhattan)
Middle check: 2500 rubles
Address: Spiridonyevsky Lane, 12/9
Why go: an exact copy - design, and menu, and drinking - the restaurant of the same name on Manhattan. Mostly meat is prepared for the Patriarchals-grill and New York hits like a brain bone. In the original version, Saxon + Parole holds an excellent bar - and in Moscow they are not going to give in.
What they write: * “ * Green salad (in the American menu it is called“ Green Goddess ”) with a dressing of sour cream and cucumbers - every Russian person understands this taste.” (The Village)
The Garden
One of the best chefs of the city prepares almost everything in the world
Middle check: 3500 rubles
Address: Yakimanskaya Embankment, 4/1
Why go: the Ginza Project institution with tropical plants and the kitchen of the Spanish chef Adrian Ketglass, who has long settled in Moscow. (However, the garden itself has been opened for five years). The menu, as befits a cook with a star - is intricate and international: borsch with a duck, Thai soup of sparing sharpness, risotto with caracatic and mousse from herbs.
What they write: “On the menu - a mixture of Italian, Spanish and Asian kitchens with an intricate presentation. Bread in the “The Garden” is baked themselves, on the night shift, with paprika, mushrooms, cereal and Borodinsky. They also manually make ice cream here, adding chestnuts, basil, almonds and cheese to it. ” (The Village)
Orange 3
Scandinavian institution Andrei Dellos next door to Pushkin
Average check: 2000 rubles
Address: Tverskaya Boulevard, 26, structure 2
Why go: the name is justified by orange trees growing in the hall. The Finnish boss deftly controls the trouser, cranberry and clogging, as well as with trout and venison. Some dishes have absolutely poetic names - for example, "pickled salam with pancakes from Pasternak."
What they write: “ The Finnish chef Sauli Kemppanen is the author of Moderni Tapas (the cook wrote it after work in the Spanish restaurant Tristan) and the ex-tumor of the Finnish version of the Masterchef show, who worked in Germany’s restaurants (Quadriga in Berlin), Britain (Fat Duck in London), Spain and Finland. " (The Village)
"Panorama"
Outstanding view of Moscow
Middle check: 3000 rubles
Address: Smolenskaya, 5, Golden Ring Hotel
Why go: a classic hotel restaurant in a skyscraper - from panoramic windows you can really see the whole of Moscow: a successful location on Smolenka and the 23rd floor allow. The menu has lobsters, smoked eel, risotto - but visitors (mainly romantic couples, newlyweds with parents or expensive anniversaries) pay more and more attention to each other than food.
What they write: * " * The scale can be understood by turning to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior - he is not at all a huge one from a height of 80 meters, not larger than the sugar beard." (Time out)
"Shinok"
Perfect Ukrainian cuisine
Middle check: 2500 rubles
Address: 1905 street, 2
Why go: “Shinok” has existed for almost 20 years and has undergone many changes, but the owner - Andrei Dellos - protects the idea of Ukrainian cuisine and a corner with a goat. True, real Ukrainian food is optimized here for faint of heart -worthy city stomachs: borscht, sausages, deeruns, compotes are served with such a light manner that Muscovites and guests of the capital (visiting the “Shinok” during exhibitions at the “Expocenter”) even eat lard - in the form of rolls - and julienne in a bun and ice cream from beetroot.
What they write: “They feed fantastic things - what is not a new Ukrainian cuisine? As a compliment, a profitrole with a smulz and a ball of fat with cherries are brought. ” (Time out)
"Chinese diploma"
The main Chinese restaurant of the city
Middle check: 1,500 rubles
Address: Sretenka, 1
Why go: Chinese - more precisely, Canton - a kitchen performed by the Chinese chef Zhang Sianghen - there are broken cucumbers, pork in orange sauce, duck noodles and fried milk for dessert. If you are not very versed in Chinese cuisine, but want to try without leaving further, this is perfect. They say that you will not find such eggplants in Hong Kong.
What they write: “The menu has not only voks, dimsama and broken cucumbers, of course, mandatory, but also pork ears, beef tongues, chicken legs and calf stomachs. When not the Chinese, namely, the Russian opens the restaurant of Chinese cuisine in Moscow, the decision to introduce this in the menu of worthy of great respect ” (The Village)
Book a table (there are no places on February 14)
Latin quarter
Peru, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, as the restaurateur Alexander Rapoport sees them
Middle check: 1,500 rubles
Address: Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 2/1
Why go: American food, but not in the sense in which you thought. Here they prepare Peruvian, Mexican, Brazilian and Argentinean. The Kubinsky chef, who has been working in Russia and knowing how to cook chicken in chocolate sauce mole for twenty years so that Muscovites eat it for twenty years.
What they write: “The game in exotic seems to become an important restaurant trend: only a small minority of the inhabitants of Russia can go to South America and independently study its culinary traditions to go to South America. But to come to the “Latin Quarter” and play a role in the play “I and the Supervisor Given” - everyone. ” (Buro 24/7)
Voronezh
Russian provincial food
Average check: 2000 rubles
Address: Prechistenka, 4
Why go: in a three -story establishment (on the first - a snack, on the third - the "Meat Club") - the second floor is dedicated to the "kitchen of Russian provinces". Indeed, there are Lukhovitsky cucumbers, Kamchatka crab, Vologda oil, beef from the Voronezh region, scallops from Murmansk. The dishes in the menu are called the main product: “Savoy cabbage”, for example, these are cabbage rolls. So the details are better to clarify with the waiters. Well, if I wanted Russian cuisine - so it is here in Voronezh, on the corner of Prechistenka and Gogol Boulevard.
What they write: “The right sandwich with the Pasrases is correct - and the correct size of the right size. The brand-chef of the Voronezh meat shop Sebbie Kenon says that he learned to cook Passters in the Parisian Frenchie to Go, where he was a chef before coming to Moscow. ” (The Village)
Book a table (there are no places on February 14)
Book the tables through the Gettable application and enter the Meduza promotional code to get two bonus points instead of one at the ordered table. By the way, for every 7 points, Gettable gives gifts - a taxi trip or a discount in a restaurant.