One of the best restaurants in Moscow, Jeroboam is located in The Ritz-Carlton Hotel and is the creation of Michelin-star chef Heinz Winkler and Leonard Chernko. Some of the culinary stars of the menu are dishes like pigeon in a crispy shell, crayfish with saffron and pineapple cannelloni. The wine list includes the rare Chateau Petrus collection.
A real English pub with a beer menu that includes Abbot Ale, Indian Pale Ale, Mort Subite Kriek, and London Porter, all accompanied by the familiar British bar foods: fish and chips, shepherd’s pie, rib eye steak. The plasma screen TVs show translations of the English Premier league, the Champions League, and Formula 1. In another pleasant touch of authenticity, the bar allows dogs.
This restaurant is located on the second floor of the fashionable Krasnie Holmy Swissôtel. The restaurant’s chefs are the French Jean-Michele Jarduin-Atlan and Ukrainian Taras Zhemelko, who have concocted a light and fresh fusion menu that’s an extravaganza of European (with an emphasis on French) cuisine harmonized with a light Eastern touch.
Kalina Bar takes up the huge 21st floor of the Lotte Plaza shopping mall on Novinsky Boulevard. One of the pleasures of the bar is getting there on the glass elevator with a breathtaking view of the city. In spite of calling itself a bar, Kalina is also a restaurant serving European cuisine. The cocktail menu is small, but changes weekly. Most of the cocktails are made with flavored vodkas.
Kofein is a café with a score of different types of coffee and tasty pastries, salads, blini and sandwiches. In addition, the café offers the ideal atmosphere for gatherings of creative youth. You can get chess from the bar, flip through art and design books, check out designer Artem Lebedev’s knick-knacks on sale in the small boutique and, equally important, charge your laptop or cell phone. The café offers chargers and plugs for almost any kind of cell phone.
La Marée is a Mediterranean restaurant where fish and seafood comprise two-thirds of the diverse menu. Additionally, the restaurant has its own seafood boutique where you can buy live langustines, lobsters, clams and oysters.
La Voile evokes the atmosphere of an aristocratic Venetian villa and serves original Mediterranean-inspired cuisine. The main accent of the menu is on seafood, vegetables, greens and fruits prepared simply and with minimal changes, allowing the full flavor of the Mediterranean to come through.
The hotel National was constructed in 1903 to a design by the well-known Russian architect Alexander Ivanov. From 1917 to 1920 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin stayed in room 107. Today the 37 luxury suites (of 206 total guest rooms) have been fully restored to their condition in the Tsarist era, including the unique ceiling paintwork. Some rooms have a terrific view of the Kremlin.