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.