In the capital, you do not always understand what to grab that it becomes your point of support. Kremlin with red-beautiful square and gum-box? A parade large, which is already able to become a symbol of the country? VDNH, on which you can not fall out for one day, but it is unlikely to find yourself? Perhaps it is worth finding conductors who will show which Moscow is hidden in the gentlemen of China-Cities, on the last floors of hotels and in small alleys. I spent and introduced me to the entrepreneur, a restaurant and a man of many talents Alexander Sysoev and a restaurant critic with a reference taste, Moskvich Mag Columnist Svetlana Kesoyan.
Institutions for different reasons
Four restaurants for eight hours - strongly even for a sophisticated restaurant browser. Such a rhythm made it possible to come up with four scenarios for Moscow leisure.
The first unfolds in the interior of the restaurant of modern Greek cuisine EVA on a large Georgian, 69, in a completely ordinary office center in 30 steps from Tverskaya with a dozen catering establishments nearby. Go to Eva at any time - for breakfast, during lunch or dinner, on Tuesday or Saturday, and there will always be a complete landing. Opening the door behind the facade, laid out with a white square tile, you get into the world of the eternal Fiesta, in the hum of talking of guests and the life of an open kitchen, to the world of new Greek cuisine with familiar flavors, flavors, products and technicians, but collected together alternatively. Required to order "in the table" of dzaziki, baked pepper with feta, a huge plate of Greek salad with full tastes of tomatoes, grilled octopus with grilled tomato and tachini. Food so much that the sin come to one and only once - call the family, distant relatives, with whom they crossed in the capital, old and new friends, so that all this together try and just tasty eat and drink.
The second action unfolds in the Kalashnaya Lane - on the ground floor of the Koji Panasian cuisine restaurant. The perfect playlist, the fracturing of metal chains separating the private from the total, muted light and bright radiance of the bar racks create completely Saturday vibration with dancing, light food, cocktails and wine. The DJ rack in the corner is hinting at this. We assure us, feeding the Tataki salmon, Sashi Sashi with Vasabi and, perhaps, the main attraction of this institution - Oshizusi with salmon (sushi in the form of stories) that they do not dance here. However, if so, this is a great place to start celebrating the weekend in the evening Friday, eat dumps with duck and truffle and crab, drink a couple of Riesling glasses or a cocktail "Geisha Fiz" and go on.
The third in line "Sakhalin" is a restaurant-holiday, a restaurant for a special occasion with a price tag, directly proportional to the altitude on which the establishment is located. A storm view of the city, ideal seafood and fish, the exceptional service is consigned to a beautiful solution to the task "How to surprise and please those who have seen a lot." Satisfy sophisticated partners, celebrate anniversary or sit with parents - each of these and even about 43 similar reasons are good to climb the 22nd floor of the Azimut Tower on Smolensk Square.
Gentle is a walk through the Moscow boulevards (no wonder the cafe was prescribed at the address Tverskaya Boulevard, 3), this is our idea of the everyday life of large cities and a good place to give yourself a rest. For a long time to choose a dessert, studying the entire showcase around the perimeter and facing questions that inside this cupcake, which is the taste of the company Gentle less crucial and that inside that hypertrophied almond. Eat Madleku at the large window. Make a few deep breaths and go to assign themselves this city further - on boulevards, alleys and yards.
Where will I start? Three new points on the city gastronomic map
When you look through the digests about the opening of restaurants, cafes, bars and coffee shops in Moscow, it seems that so many institutions appear for a week as in other cities for one and a half years. The harder it is to choose new places in this manifold that you definitely need to visit, and the more reasonably the offer of Svetlana Kesoyan show those places that seem to her most interesting at this moment. We started a tour of the Petrovka, on which the Bardo Bar is located. Ideally, it is worth come to Chef's Table. He is hidden behind the bar and is designed literally on four. On the one hand, the atmosphere turns out a chamber and intimate. On the other hand, the usual job of the kitchen with its sounds, aromas, degrees gives active mood. It is regularly invited to the chief at the desk on a special menu, but even if you fall here not to schedule, there is something to choose and what is surprised in regular. Start with the set of BRODO mini-snacks, and strictly follow the sequence to get the right taste. Continue tartar from beef or Sevs from an oily wilder scallop, and for hot, be sure to order a marble sobe of unagi with a salad from the batt. Brodo brilliantly parried his thoughtful cuisine to all those who believe that the bars are not a place of real gastronomy, and it is precisely worthy to become a point of reference in a gastronomic walk in this area.
Over the past six months, Sretenka gradually became a new location for those who want to eat and drink tasty. And the most beautiful complex can be called, without shook the soul, the building at Sretenka, 22/2, p. 1, inside which Lila Asia, Lila Pastry and the Insider bar were hidden. Lila Asia is an almost reference Panasian restaurant with clean lines in design and incredibly pleasant textures to which you want to touch. Come here by the company, take the communal table and order - artichokes in sesame sauce, tartar on the pancake from the Topinambura, a soft-protected crab in the MenTayko sauce, all three steam buns of Bao with fillings from crispy chicken, a tommy beef rib and smoked salmon. At the same time you can play in the association and reflect, from which kitchen the chef took this or that ingredient and according to which principle they were connected. It is important not to leave Lila Asia without Misho Brauni with a salt caramel, which instantly overturns into childhood (even if it was not Brauni in it, but only homemade candies from a mixture "Baby").
Borrowing in the alleys of China-Cities, be sure to find the courtyard in which the "glass dreams" opened - glass-shaped in form and content, and most importantly, the price tag. Your goal is the reference sandwiches with doctoral sausage, cheese pate and jam from pear and riyet from mackerel (every 200 rubles). And to the whole holiday of the Spirit - the branded tincture "Red Moskvich", "Love and Katay" and "Bucky" (do not believe, but also 200 rubles). Add to this ironic interiors with frescoes inspired by memes from the public "suffering from the Middle Ages", an impressive bar rack and extremely friendly staff. Consider the reference point in China-city you already have.
Photo: Dmitry Chongtul, Peter Rakhmanov