The rating of the best restaurants in Moscow in terms of its performance largely depends on who composed it - professional connoisseurs of haute cuisine or ordinary inhabitants with their various tastes and preferences. Professional assessment is attention to the quality of the products used, the design of dishes, the skill of the cooks. Ordinary people may like such a trifle as issuing a mini-guitar in their wardrobe instead of which the Old School pub located near the Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro will receive a rating of 4.9 out of 5 possible points in the popular rating.
Exclusive Seafood in La Maree
The rating of the best restaurants in Moscow (2014), compiled by professionals at the end of December, shares the best restaurants depending on what kind of cuisine is offered there. So, lovers of seafood and fish delicacies may need to book a table at La Maree on Petrovka, where the average bill is about 5000 rubles. For such an amount, you can taste in the restaurant, offered by chef Z. Abdessattar, original dishes from lacedra fish, which are delivered from Japan, from farm plantations, where it is bred in exclusive conditions. As well as traditional dishes of Russian cuisine, such as pancakes with red caviar, fish soup, hodgepodge or sturgeon in Moscow. The institution offers live langoustines, the method of preparation of which can be chosen by the client himself, as well as grilled quails or ducks with foie gras.
Rich cocktail card and daytime discounts
The rating of the best restaurants in Moscow includes less expensive establishments with fish cuisine. Almost half the price you can eat in the restaurant "Boat" on Novinsky Boulevard. The interior of this restaurant is likened to a yacht with Asian and European decor. The walls of the rooms are lined with Indian rosewood, the floor is wooden, the furniture is partially made of natural rattan, the lighting system allows you to highlight the situation in different ways, emphasizing one or another style. The institution’s steak menu includes the possibility of eating seafood just caught from the aquarium located here - in the restaurant. There are oysters, crabs, lobsters, scallops. A large map of Asian cocktails is also available. There is an opportunity to eat during the day at a significant discount. In addition to the above institutions, professionals such as Peschi, Peter's Boat, Nabi, Porto Maltese, Rybka, Rybniy Bazaar and Siren also came to the attention of professionals.
Russian cuisine "from Pushkin"
The rating of the best restaurants in Moscow, which serves national Russian cuisine, includes such establishments where the average bill is slightly lower than in fish restaurants (perhaps a smaller number of products are delivered from abroad). Lunch at Pushkin. Library ”on Tverskaya Square. This institution, located in an old house, has a library with antique books, telescopes and globes, an old working elevator and fireplace, which are successfully combined with the presence of Wi-Fi. The menu, written in pre-revolutionary language, includes, for example, cutlets "mosquito prepared for gourmet fun" or salmon "in herbs with southern fruits." A little cheaper you can have a meal in "Pushkin. Pharmacy "or" Pushkin. Confectionery". Relatively inexpensive restaurants highlighted by professionals include Black Cat (on Lubyanka and Vorontsovskaya Street), Country that isn’t there (Okhotny Ryad), Korsh Theater, Pavilion, Buloshnaya, Glass, "Barrel" and others.
Russian cuisine is inexpensive in the morning
The best restaurants in Moscow, whose rating is very high due to people who prefer national dishes, are the miniature Secret Place restaurant, located next to the Smolenskaya metro station, Gallery on Petrovka (opens early, you can have breakfast), and Kukushka with her friendly staff. There are also a number of similar institutions.
The best Italian restaurants in Moscow, whose rank among ordinary users reaches 4.5-5.0 (out of five possible points) are, first of all, Mayak on Arbatskaya, where you can taste decent desserts, homemade wine, pizza, listen to the game on piano or go into the toilet room through ... closet. The Arena sports bar near Tulskaya metro is known to many not only for its good pizza, but also for its large screen, where it’s convenient to watch sporting events. Many lovers of such establishments speak favorably about restaurants with quite Italian names - “Tutto Belé”, “Porto Maltese”, “De Marco” and others.
Two chefs guarantee a great meal
Visitors studying serious ratings recommend paying attention to the Chaika restaurant-yacht (opposite the World Trade Center). Here, chef Sang Keun Ouch and chef Dominico Filippone work to create dishes of Italian, Russian, Pan-Asian and European cuisine, which allows you to diversify your taste sensations by tasting, for example, prosciutto with melon, langoustine carpaccio, minestrone soup and apple strudel "a la Venice". You can also try Italian dishes at 1812, Barlotti, Kalina Bar, Kalina cafe, La Prima, Luciano, Presnya cafe, a number of Bokonchino establishments (Strastnoy Boulevard, Novoslobodskaya, Kutuzovsky pr-t), Bono, Capri, etc.
There are few French gourmet restaurants in the capital
Less extensive is the professional rating of the best restaurants in Moscow, where French cuisine is presented. Here, as of the end of 2014, only 7 establishments were allocated. These included Les Menu par Pierre Gagnaire, located on Novinsky Boulevard, with a chef, owner of experience in a three-star Michelin restaurant, Pierre Garnier. The average check of an institution is about 4.5 thousand rubles. For this amount, the visitor gets the opportunity to bite in the interiors developed by a world-famous company - Wilson and Associates (one of the first three design companies in the world).
Gilded furniture and Russian interior
There is solid furniture with gilding in the style of France of the Middle Ages, and the walls and ceiling are decorated with Russian-style ornaments. Truly French dishes stand out in the restaurant's menu: Tartar, oysters, lobsters, prawns. Interesting sauces are offered, and also has its own wine collection containing more than a thousand bottles of excellent drinks. You can eat here from 12 to 16 (in the business lunch mode) or have dinner from 18 to 23 hours. In addition to this institution, lovers of French cuisine can visit the "Jourbon" on Vavilova, "Michelle" on Krasnaya Presnya, "Brasserie Bridge" on the Kuznetsk bridge, "Hugo", "Veterok" and "Vanilla". If we consider the best restaurants in Moscow, whose rating is also high among ordinary Muscovites, of the above institutions, only Hugo can be noted with an average bill of 2.5 thousand rubles, while the rest are probably quite expensive.
Nevertheless, in the capital you can find about thirty establishments with elements of French cuisine and an estimated score close to five (out of five). These are “Bouillabaisse”, “Il Camino”, “Eclé”, “Parisienne”, “Amsterdam”, “Daily bread” and others, where you can have a hearty lunch or buy, for example, pastries prepared according to recipes of French cuisine.
Where do chefs eat restaurants?
The rating of the best restaurants in Moscow (2013 and other years) may include a number of establishments that like to visit the chefs of other restaurants. After all, they know a lot about delicious food and quality service. There are no more than a dozen such places in the capital. Among them are the aforementioned La Maria on Petrovka, Roni also on Petrovka, Williams on Malaya Bronnaya, Clouds on Kutuzovsky, Cheese on Sadovaya-Samotechnaya, as well as Khachapuri and Bistro in B. Savvinsky Lane.
Czech and Russian beer - everything is in Moscow!
The best beer restaurants in Moscow, rated by Muscovites themselves with a restaurant rating from 4.5 to 5 (out of a possible five points), are institutions such as Arena, Beer!, Kolbasoff, Molly Gvins, Beer & Co. and about thirty more. In a number of restaurants you can find original Czech beer, with an original appetizer of Czech dishes and the original Czech decor (“Kozlovitsa”). In others (Budvar) there is a wealth of experience in serving Russian customers (open for almost 20 years), deliveries are made directly from Czech plants. The mascots of the institution are also attracted - cats Korzhik and Irzhik - which can be fed shrimps.
The Budvar restaurant is distinguished by its excellent cuisine, therefore it was repeatedly included in the rating of the best restaurants in Moscow (2014 and earlier) as an excellent "beer institution". Most restaurants in the capital today have Wi-Fi, some even offer a children's menu in the morning, so there are currently no problems in Moscow where to eat or dine.