The wonderful capital of Russia is a place you have to add to the list of your favorite destinations. This beautiful city has a great unique charm that will make you fall in love with it. To enhance your experience we recommend some exceptional restaurants to make your visit to Moscow even better.
Sakhalin
It is situated at 88 meters above the ground in the historic center of Moscow and with a 360-degree breathtaking views of the Stalin skyscrapers, the Garden Ring, the city of Moscow, and the Kremlin.
Sakhalin is a project of restaurateurs Boris Zarkov and Vladimir Mukhin, a White Rabbit Family company chef. The restaurant is an incredibly stylish and elegant space with snow-white tablecloths and a cozy atmosphere.
It stands out for its highest quality seafood and great variety. It combines Russian regional products with Mediterranean and Asian dishes and culinary techniques to form its style of cuisine with a glacier and an aquarium where guests can choose seafood to their taste.
Krasota
Krasota is the ideal place to enjoy delicious dishes by Vladimir Mukhin and Likarion Solncev while enjoying the visual art of Anton Nenashev’s studio. Moscow’s gastro-revolution bears synergistic fruits and brings together world-renowned chefs, iconic restaurants, and people from areas far from the kitchen at one brilliant table.
This place will take you back to childhood or catapult you to the past tomorrow, mixing feelings and sensations, turning dinner into a dance of emotions, glances of light, and of course, exceptional food. This place is amazing!
The restaurant has two shows, the first one is Imaginary Russia, the first show that inaugurates this gastro-theater. It is a kind of time machine that transports us from paganism to the future, making simultaneous stops in tsarist, imperial, communist, and modern Russia. The other show is Imaginary Art, a fascinating journey into the world of eight Russian artists, which is not limited to the framework of photography.
White Rabbit
Considered one of the best restaurants in the world and being awarded several times, limitless creativity is the great secret that blends with the best Russian ingredients to create such a magical space.
Its chef is Moscow’s top chef, Vladimir Mukhin. He created a tasting menu “Metamorphosis” at the opening of the renovated White Rabbit. In this menu he critically understands his culinary trajectory, choosing for it an allegory of the life cycle of the May butterfly: egg, nymph, subimago, and imago. The retrospective dishes allow us to follow the chef’s evolution, the growth of consciousness, and the deepening of his ideas.
Natalia Belonogova, the famous architect, was in charge of the interior design of the restaurant, creating a modern atmosphere that fits the style of creating a delicate connection between food and ambiance and raising the level of this fabulousness.
Lucky Izakaya Bar
Lucky Izakaya Bar is the author’s interpretation of a traditional Japanese restaurant, an everyday gourmet bar. Try their perfectly crafted eel, homemade salmon sushi, and unique crabs to get an idea of what Lucky Izakaya Bar is like. Their sensational wine or spectacular beer will make your meal even more delicious, which will surely make you come back. It’s the cozy atmosphere and beautiful interior that make this place so good.
Karina Ovakimyan is its General Manager and has worked in various restaurants in different positions, knowing perfectly well and from different perspectives the world of restaurants. Glen Ballis, the brand Chef, learned about cooking by working around the world. In 2006, he was offered a position to open a restaurant in Moscow and never looked back. From there, he has positioned himself as a business partner to some of Moscow’s finest restaurants, renowned for their delicious flavors and eclectic styles. Vasiliy Zaitsev is the restaurant’s chef who learned the art of cooking in Hong Kong and Beijing.
With a great team of professionals, a wonderful style, and good cuisine, it is the best way to enjoy dishes with an Asian touch in Moscow.
Cristal Room Baccarat
The Moscow Cristal Room is an elegant place to enjoy French cuisine.
Baccarat has entrusted the orchestration of the Cristal Room to David Desseaux and David Hemmerlé. The two chefs rely on a menu based on great French cuisine, modified each month according to the season.
They rely on a demanding selection of imported products from France and Europe, prioritizing quality and freshness. Seafood and crustaceans arrive daily from France, and their meat is cooked on skewers as in the French city of Lyon, something unusual in Russia.
Its dessert menu is subtle and creative and reflects the same level of exigency. They have Nathalia Kurnosova, a superb oenologist who proposes a magnificent list of great vintages of wines and champagnes, along with a selection of fine wines from around the world, matching the menu of the day and served in Baccarat glasses.
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